Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucquoi, n?e Parr, 1793, Elisabeth Louise Vig?e-Le Brun, French, 1755 - 1842, 53 1/2 x 39in. (135.9 x 99.1cm)61 1/2 ¡Ñ 47 ¡Ñ 3 1/2 in. (156.21 ¡Ñ 119.38 ¡Ñ 8.89 cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, France, 18th century, At the age of 24, Vig?e-LeBrun executed her first portrait of Queen Marie-Antoinette of France, and over the course of her career, remained the principal portraitist of the French aristocracy. On the night that revolutionaries arrested Louis XVI and his queen in 1789, Vig?e-Le Brun fled France and went into exile traveling throughout Europe for 12 years.