MARIE ÉLISABETH LEMOINE (PARIS C.1761-1811)

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£ 15 000
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22.11.2022 10:00UTC +01:00
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ID 848473
Lot 220 | MARIE ÉLISABETH LEMOINE (PARIS C.1761-1811)
MARIE ÉLISABETH LEMOINE (PARIS C.1761-1811)

Portrait of a young girl, half-length, in a white frilled dress and blue sash, holding a cherry branch

oil on canvas, oval

23 5/8 x 19 7/8 in. (60.1 x 50.4 cm.)

with signature and date 'M. Eli.th Lebrun 1787' (centre right)





Provenance

Albert Lehmann (1840-1922), Paris; his sale (†), Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 8 June 1925, lot 221, 'Vigée Le Brun, La Fillette aux Cerises', where acquired by,

Edouard Jonas, Paris.

Heine Collection; Parke-Bernet, New York, 24 November 1944, lot 249, illustrated, as Vigée Le Brun.

Jessie Woolworth Donahue (1886-1971); her sale (†), Parke-Bernet, New York, 29 April 1972, lot 464, as Vigée Le Brun.

with Hallsborough Gallery, London.



Literature

J. Baillio, 'Vie et œuvre de Marie Victoire Lemoine (1754–1820)', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, CXXVII, April 1996, p. 163, no. M.E.L.8, fig. 58.
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