Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun
Portrait of the artist, bust-length
179464.3 x 52 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: L.E. Vigée Le Brun / à Vienne 1794
Sale Christie's, New York, 31 October 2017
Provenance
(Possibly) Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711-1794), Vienna
Albert Henry Wiggin (1868-1951), Boston and New York, by 1926, and by descent in 1951 to his daughter
Muriel Wiggin Seldon (born 1897) and her husband Lynde Selden (1891-1972), Greenwich, Connecticut
anonymous sale Christie's, New York, 15 June 1977, nr. 73
with Wildenstein & Co., New York, from whom acquired by the present owner
sale Christie's, New York, Property from a Distinguished Collection, 31 October 2017, nr. 32
Other works by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun
G.A. Stroganov
1793
1793
Portrait of Jean Charles Sapey
1819
1819
Empress Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
1778
1778
Portrait of La maréchale-comtesse de Mailly, née Blanche Charlotte Marie Félicité de Narbonne Pelet (1761-1840)
1783
1783
Portrait of a junior officer of the French Royal infantry, bust-length