Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun
Portrait of Madame Hennet, bust-length
180973.7 x 59.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left: L E Vigee/ Le Brun/ 1809
Sale Bonhams, London, 7 July 2010
Provenance
Collection of Comte C.
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, 30 April 1898, nr. 67 (550fr)
collection Comte A. de Ganay
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, June 1903, nr. 61 (4,700fr)
where purchased by Georges Sortais
sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 June, 1926, nr. 27
sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 November 1929, nr. 120
collection of L. Vuccino
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 July 1930, nr. 2
with Wildenstein, New York, from whom acquired by the present owners
sale, The Property of a Private Collector, Christie's, New York, 21 October 1997, nr. 336
sale Bonhams, London, 7 July 2010, nr. 69 (bought in)
Other works by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun
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
Julie Le Brun Holding a Mirror
Madame d'Aguesseau de Fresnes
1789
1789
The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons
1787
1787