La Belle Strasbourgeoise (The Beautiful Strasbourg Woman) is a 1703 painting by the French painter Nicolas de Largillière.
[1] La Belle Strasbourgeoise is the most famous of the circa 1,500 portrait paintings by Largillière, and arguably the most iconic work in the Strasbourg museum.
[1][3] The painting was bought at Sotheby's in London on 3 July 1963 for the then very considerable sum of 145,000 British pounds (equivalent to £3,835,171 in 2023), or 1,999,000 French francs at the time.
The museum finally paid 1,725,500 French francs, thanks to a deduction agreed by the owner, Violet Leah Fitzgerald, and Sotheby's.
In 1967, Heitz painted a bitter parody of the portrait, called La Vieille Strasbourgeoise (The Old Strasbourg Woman).