Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Madame d'Aguesseau de Fresnes
1789107 x 83 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and dated upper right: Mde Le Brun / 1789.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection
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
Other works by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun
Portrait of a junior officer of the French Royal infantry, bust-length
Julie Le Brun Holding a Mirror
The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons
1787
1787
Portrait of Tatyana Borisovna Potemkina
1820
1820
Self-Portrait
c. 1781
c. 1781