Self potrait in a straw hat – which artist created it?

Self potrait in a straw hat – which artist created it?

• A. Mary Cassatt
• B. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
• C. Angelica Kauffmann
• D. Judith Leyster

Answer: (B)

Identifying the artist from a self-portrait in a straw hat. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun is the artist behind this work. She was a leading French portraitist in the late 18th century, renowned for elegante, luminous self-portraits and fashionable attire. This painting shows her poised and refined, with a straw hat as a stylish accessory—a hallmark of her self-portraits and her connections to the French court, including Marie Antoinette. The other artists, while talented in their own right, are associated with different periods or subjects: Cassatt with later American Impressionism, Kauffmann with Neoclassical myth and history subjects, and Leyster with Dutch Golden Age genre scenes.

Identifying the artist from a self-portrait in a straw hat. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun is the artist behind this work. She was a leading French portraitist in the late 18th century, renowned for elegante, luminous self-portraits and fashionable attire. This painting shows her poised and refined, with a straw hat as a stylish accessory—a hallmark of her self-portraits and her connections to the French court, including Marie Antoinette. The other artists, while talented in their own right, are associated with different periods or subjects: Cassatt with later American Impressionism, Kauffmann with Neoclassical myth and history subjects, and Leyster with Dutch Golden Age genre scenes.