Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons
1787123.4 x 155.9 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of the Bay Foundation in memory of Josephine Bay Paul and Ambassador Charles Ulrick Bay
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 463
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 93
Provenance
One of the sitters, Victurnienne Delphine Nathalie, marquise de Rougé (1759-1828, née Rochechouart Mortemart), Paris, Château de la Bellière, Château de Beaune-la-Rolande, and Château de Moreuil
by inheritance to her son, comte Adrien Gabriel Victurnien de Rougé (1782-1838), Château de Guyencourt, Cuyencourt-sur-Noye (Somme)
by inheritance to his son, comte Armel-Jean-Victurnien de Rougé (1813-1898)
by inheritance to his son, Armel-Marie-Fernand de Rougé (born 1847), Paris and Château de Saint-Symphorien-des-Monts (Manche), until at least 1914
by inheritance to his son, comte Jean de Rougé (1880-1960), Château de Saint-Symphorien
presumably to his nephew, Charles-Edouard de Cassagnes de Beaufort de Miramon-Pesteils (born 1930)
purchased 1960 by Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York
purchased 24 June 1964 by the Bay Foundation, New York
gift 1964 to NGA
Other works by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun
Julie Le Brun Holding a Mirror
Madame d'Aguesseau de Fresnes
1789
1789
Portrait of Tatyana Borisovna Potemkina
1820
1820
Self-Portrait
c. 1781
c. 1781
Madame Vigée Le Brun Holding Her Daughter in Her Arms (Maternal Tenderness)
1786
1786