Self-portrait of Madame Vigée-Le Brun
The painter Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1755-1842) is considered one of the greatest portraitists of her from her time, technically gifted and decidedly prolific, so much so that she signed over nine hundred canvases.
Surely her most important patron (and munificent) of her was the queen of France Marie Antoinette of her, who commissioned about twenty portraits of her, now largely preserved in Versailles.
The two women were of the same age (both born in 1755), they lived for a long time together in the palace and certainly became friends and confidants, but at the outbreak of the Revolution, like many other favorites of the sovereign, the artist preferred to flee the country to return only many years later.
Marie Antoinette, enthusiastic and generous by nature, tended to fulfill every wish of her closest friends, many of whom, however, changed the wind, did not hesitate for a moment to abandon her to her fate ( see https://www.pilloledistoria.it/2804/storia-moderna/intorno-a-maria-antonietta-amici-e-nemici-in-una-carrellata-di-imphotos).
We also have about forty of Madame Vigée-Le Brun of her self-portraits of her, that allow us to know its physical characteristics.
Find information on the artist's life and work on the website it.wikipedia.org.