#life study of Lady Hamilton as the Cumaean Sybil

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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755 - 1842) Life Study of Lady Hamilton as the Cumaean Sybil, 1792 The Met Museum

Emma Hamilton (1765–1815) rose from the lowest rank of society to the peak of distinction by marrying, in 1791, Sir William Hamilton, English ambassador to Naples. There she was famous for her “attitudes”—tableaux vivants performed before swooning audiences who felt themselves transported back to antiquity.

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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Life Study of Lady Hamilton as the Cumaean Sybil (1792)