I had a serendipitous encounter with this lovely portrait yesterday and was so moved I knew I simply had to share it with you, my much-appreciated coterie. This portrait was painted by the incomparable Madame Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun who, incidentally, was Marie Antoinette's official portraitist. The subject is the Baroness Crussol, wife of Henri-Charles-Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac, lieutenant general of the armies of the King of France.
The Baroness holds a book of opera music, opened to a score by Christoph Willibald Gluck who, incidentally, was Marie Antoinette's preferred composer.
Of course, I love the references to Marie Antoinette, but what I truly adore/covet is the Baroness's smart ensemble.