Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland

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John Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland

Artist	Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Year	1791
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions	99.1 cm × 74.9 cm (39.0 in × 29.5 in)
Location	Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco

Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland is a 1791 portrait painting by the French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun depicting the courtesan and actress Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland. At the time of the painting Roland was living with the Irish aristocrat and Tory politician Richard Wellesley. In 1794 the couple married and she first became Countess of Mornington and later Marchioness Wellesley in the Irish peerage, having previously had several children together.

Le Brun met and painted Roland in Rome, where she had recently settled following the French Revolution. Its composition echoes a portrait of Helena Fourment by Peter Paul Rubens. Today the painting is in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in California, having been acquired in 1991.

References

Baillio, Joseph, Baetjer, Katharine & Lang, Paul. Vigée Le Brun. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016.
Quinn, Bridget. Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Chronicle Books, 2024.

v t e Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Paintings	Peace Bringing Back Abundance (1780) Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat (c. 1782) Marie Antoinette with a Rose (1783) Madame Grand (1783) Marie Antoinette and Her Children (1787) Self-Portrait with Julie (Maternal Tenderness) (1787) Portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan (1788) Comtesse de la Châtre (1789) Self-Portrait with Julie (Self-Portrait à la Grecque) (1789) Self-Portrait Painting Marie Antoinette (1790) Portrait of Countess Yekaterina Skavronskaya (1790) Portrait of Princess Maria Christina (c. 1790) Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland (1791) Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt (1796) Madame de Staël as Corinne at Cape Miseno (1807–1809)
Related	Julie Le Brun (daughter) Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun (husband) Louis Vigeé (father) Étienne Vigée (brother)

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