Madame de Staël as Corinne at Cape Miseno is a painting of Germaine de Staël by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the collection of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, in Geneva.
Initially, de Staël proposed that another person model for the role of Corinne; it is not known whether she or Le Brun decided that de Staël should pose for the work.
[1]: 259–60 Known as Marie Antoinette's favored painter, Vigée-Lebrun fled Paris during the Revolution and spent her career between Italy, London, and Saint Petersburg.
Vigée-Lebrun captures Corinne's strength and grace as a poet and passionate romantic, simultaneously honoring de Staël as a writer, philosopher, and a symbol of female independence.
Celebrated for her Parisian salon, de Staël remained a vocal critic of the societal limitations imposed on women.