Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1800
Portrait of Corisande de Gramont
This young woman is Corisande Armandine Léonie Sophie de Gramont. Corisande was about eighteen when she sat for this charming portrait by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. A few years later Corisande married Charles Augustus, the 5th Earl of Tankerville in 1806, and a little over 200 years after that, the portrait sold for $122,000 USD to a private collector. read more