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Elisabeth Vigée-LeBrun’s portrait of a wide-eyed, almost Disney-like Princess Belozersky betrays a youthful naivete.

Salon Style: French Portraits From the Collection” Portraits by Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun and other 18th-century French female artists provide a glimpse into their legacy as members of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.

The first lot, a good engraving from 1786 by Maurice Blot reproducing Elisabeth �վ���é��-��������ܲ�’s picture of the children of King Louis XVI, shot up to €389, or $540, quadrupling the highest expectations.

In literature the authoress stands firm on her own feet; only quite uneducated people—subaltern-poets and young Latin philosophers—believe that women cannot write; but it is a mere truism to say that no woman-painter, pace Madame �վ���é��-��������ܲ�, has yet held her own with contemporaries even.

On August 11, 1784, Jeanne dressed up d'Oliva in the chemise or gaulle, the very simple white blouse which Marie Antoinette wears in the contemporary portrait by Madame �վ���é��-��������ܲ�, a portrait exhibited at the Salon of 1783.