Curators Reflect: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s “Head of a Woman”
October 20, 2022
Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, shares his reflections on an exciting new addition to the collection: a stunning pastel sketch by one of the leading female artists of the eighteenth century. The work is on view at Frick Madison through February 26, 2023, in The Eveillard Gift.
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842)
Head of a Woman, 1784