# Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VIGÉE-LEBRUN, Élisabeth]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 99 x 75 cm ## Commentary This portrait shows the influence of Rubens on Mme Vigée Lebrun and the direct connection here with the portrait of the artist's wife, <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/rubens/42portra/07furcoa.html'\)" HREF="/html/r/rubens/42portra/07furcoa.html">Helene Fourment in a Fur Coat</A> is apparent. Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland was of modest origins, the daughter of Pierre Roland and Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Daris. It is uncertain where she met her future husband, the Earl of Mornington \(later Marquess Wellesley\), but it has been suggested that they encountered each other in the Palais Royal. When Vigée painted her portrait, Mlle Roland and Lord Mornington had already lived together as man and wife for six years and she was the mother of three children. ## Related artworks - [Bacchante]() - [Hubert Robert, Artist]() - [Madame d'Aguesseau de Fresnes]() - [Madame Perregaux]() - [Marie Antoinette]() - [Moritz von Fries]() - [Portrait of a Young Musician]() - [Portrait of a Young Woman]() - [Portrait of Anna Pitt as Hebe]() - [Portrait of Madame de Staël as Corinne on Cape Misenum]() - [Portrait of Madame Grand]() - [Portrait of Princess Anna Ivanonva Bariatinsky]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()