ID 1176991
Lot 55 | ÉLISABETH-LOUISE VIGÉE LE BRUN (PARIS 1755-1842)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
Portrait of a boy, bust-length
signed and dated ‘1801/ L.E. Vigée Le Brun à Dresde’ (lower center, on the trompe-l’œil frame)
pastel on paper, mounted on cardboard
13 x 9 ½ in. (33 x 24.3 cm)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Weinmüller, Munich, 14-15 March 1962, lot 818.
with Newhouse Gallery, New York.
Helis family, New Orleans, by 1960; by descent to
William G. Helis, Jr. (1918-1988), New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 11 January 1990, lot 147.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 June 2005, lot 4.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 29 January 2009, lot 63.
Literature
L. Cardellini, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun e le sue suggestioni fiamminghe e olandesi, thesis, Padua University,, 2000, no. 6, ill.
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, p. 552.
N. Jeffares, Pastels and Pastellists, published online at www.pastellists.com, no. J.76.416, ill. (consulted February 2024).
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