Portrait of a Woman, possibly Madame de Staël (1766-1817) and her son
Location
Title
Portrait of a Woman, possibly Madame de Staël (1766-1817) and her son
Date
About 1795
Materials
Gouache and watercolour on ivory; gold frame, tortoiseshell bonbonnière
Dimensions
Bonbonnière: 2.3 cm (h.), 8.3 cm (diam.); image: 7.2 cm (diam.)
Credits
Gift of Miss Olive Hosmer, inv. 1949.50.Dv.23a-b
Collection
Western Art
As a very young woman the famous Madame de Staël wrote a work that became associated with the French Romantic movement. Her opposition to Napoleon led to her exile. The Emperor drove her out of Paris, but she continued to pursue her intellectual activities in Cappet,
on Lake Leman.
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