Vigee Le Brun ART Page 84

ART PAGE 84

	Mademoiselle D'Artois - 1777 oil on canvas, Oval, 62.2 x 52 cm, 24-1/2 x 20-1/2 in Collection Marquis of Chaponay. Vigee Le Brun listed the sitter as "Mlle Dartois." Maialen Berasategui suggests this was Sophie d'Artois (8 May 1776-December 1782), daughter of the comte d'Artois, youngest brother of Louis XVI, and future Charles X of France. The age of the sitter would seem to match. However, there was also a family called Dartois. One Mlle Dartois married Jean-Etienne Le Sénéchal.
	Mlle de la Briche - 1786 oil on canvas, Caroline Lalive de la Briche. (One source said she was the future comtesse Molé.)
	Mme Todi - 1785 oil on canvas, 78.8 x 61.7 cm Museum of Music, Lisboa, Portugal Luisa Todi (1753-1833), born Luisa Rosa de Aguiar, was a very popular Portuguese opera singer. She was born in Setubal, Portugal. Sergio, a fan of Mme Todi wrote a small bio about Luisa Todi at Wikipedia encyclopedia. Saddly she died in Lisbon blind and in complete misery and solitude.Vigee Le Brun had included "Mme Todi" on her list for 1785, and in her Memoirs wrote, "As for Mme Todi, she united all the qualities of a great singer and managed both comic and tragic roles with equal perfection." View a framed image of this portrait.