1775 - Art

Art

Painting: Self-portrait (pastel) by Jean-Siméon Chardin, now 75; Miss Bowles by Sir Joshua Reynolds; Portrait of Count Shuvaloff by Parisian painter (Marie Louise) Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (née Vigée), 20, who has married local art dealer Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun (a chronic gambler, he will take much of her earnings). Her subject is the chamberlain to Russia's Catherine the Great at St. Petersburg.