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Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (French, 1755-1842).
Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
(French, 1755-1842).
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Madame Grassini in the Role of Zaire (1805).
Oil on canvas.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.
Depicts Giuseppa Grassini as Zaire, in the title-role of Peter von Winter’s opera.
Wears a red tunic without sleeves, over a dress of muslin flowered with roses, and a waistband with gold buckles.
Grassini, a noted Italian opera singer of the late 18th-early 19th centuries, was the mistress of Napoleon Bonaparte and of his enemy, the Duke of Wellington.
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