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
rers of hisbelle 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 her some shoes to wear at a ball,but had actually (as was commonly asserted) ordered an assault on a hostile… … 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…
