Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 464
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 94

Provenance

Presumably the collection of the sitter and her family
possibly with Ferol, Paris, c. 1850
Mrs. Stephen Lyne-Stephens (1813-1894, née Yolande-Marie-Louise Duvernay), Lynford Hall, Norfolk, Upper Grove House, Roehampton, and Paris
her estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 9-11 and 13-17 May 1895, 3rd day (May 11), nr. 360, sold for 2,250 guineas
with Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London
sold 13 May 1895 to J. Pierpont Morgan I (1837-1913), London
consigned July 1943 by the Morgan estate to M. Knoedler & Co., New York
sold October 1943 to Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York
purchased 3 January 1944 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1946 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1946.7.16

Other works by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun

Portrait of Madame Hennet, bust-length
1809

Julie Le Brun Holding a Mirror

The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons
1787

Portrait of Tatyana Borisovna Potemkina
1820

Self-Portrait
c. 1781