Prince Heinrich Lubomirski as the Genius of Fame
by VIGÉE-LEBRUN, Élisabeth, Oil on oak, 106 x 83 cm
In his boyhood likeness, Prince Heinrich Lubomirski is shown as the Genius of Fame. His nude is a painted paraphrase of a famous Hellenistic Crouching Venus by �lisabeth Vig�e-Lebrun, the tireless French painter and diarist, who traveled throughout Europe and Russia in search of courtly commissions, especially after the French Revolution.