Who painted “Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Verlée, 1761–1835)”?

“Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Verlée, 1761–1835)” was painted by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun in 1783. Where to see it: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Neoclassicism: Rococo before it is playful and pastel; Romanticism, its contemporary rival, prefers loose brushwork, rich colour and strong emotion.

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Wikipedia

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