La poupée préférée de ma Fille
(My Daughter's Favorite Doll)
Marie-Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
(1755 - 1842)
When Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun fled The Terror of the French Revolution in 1789 her young daughter's favorite doll, a gift from Marie-Antoinette, was left behind. To placate the child, the
favorite portrait painter of Louis XVI's court painted this "portrait" of the abandoned (headless?) doll.