Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842 : her life, works, and friendships : with a catalogue raisonné of the artist's pictures (1915)
Helm, W. H. (William Henry), 1860-1936, Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842 · Boston : Small, Maynard · leaf 282
he ugly and middle-aged Cobentzl seems to have been, hewas always eclipsed by more brilliant and more lavish admirers of hishelle dame sans merci. Among them had been Potemkin, who had notonly showered diamonds upon her, and, on one occasion, sent a courier toParis, travelling night and day, to get… … TABLEAUX VIVANTS 127 fortress before the time previously fixed, because she had expressed adesire to see this spectacle. Madame Lebrun gives some remarkableanecdotes in illustration of the extravagance and autocratic behaviourof Potemkin, but she adds nothing to what the Comte de Segur, the…
