ELISABETH-LOUISE VIGÉE LE BRUN (PARIS 1755-1842)

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Lot 56 | ELISABETH-LOUISE VIGÉE LE BRUN (PARIS 1755-1842)
ELISABETH-LOUISE VIGÉE LE BRUN (PARIS 1755-1842)

Portrait of the artist's daughter, Jeanne-Julie-Louise Le Brun (1780-1819), playing a guitar

oil on canvas

39 ½ x 32 5⁄8 in. (100.4 x 83 cm.)





Provenance

(Probably) the painting listed in the 1842 inventory of the artist's estate, and by descent to her niece,

Caroline Vigée de Rivière (1791-1864), Versailles.

Anonymous sale, Hotel Drouot, 10 March 1864, lot 1.

(Probably) Prince Sigmond Radziwilłł (1822-1892), Chateau d'Ermenonville; his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 22 March 1866, lot 145 (1900 francs).

Arthur Veil-Picard (1854-1944), Paris,

Confiscated from the above following the Nazi occupation of France after May 1940 (ERR no. W.-P. 120),

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives section from the Altaussee salt mines and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 341⁄2).

Repatriated to France on 25 June 1946 and restituted on 11 October 1946.

Anonymous sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 7 June 1955, lot 107.

Anonymous sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 15-16 December 1958, lot 82.

with Newhouse Galleries, New York, by July 1959, where acquire by,

Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kimbell, Fort Worth, TX, and by whom gifted in 1965 to,

The Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth, TX, and by which sold,

[Property of the Kimbell Art Foundation]; Sotheby's, New York, 15 January 1987, lot 108.

[The Property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, New York, 18 May 1994, lot 14, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

P. de Nolhac, Madame Vigée-le Brun peintre de Marie-Antoinette, Paris, 1912, p. 253.

E.-L. Vigée Le Brun, Souvenirs, Paris, 1835-7; C. Herrmann, ed., Paris, 1984, I, p. 56 and II, p.49.

(Probably) J. B. P. Le Brun, Reflexions du citoyen le Brun sur la notice des tableaux, statues, dessins et estampes exposes su salon du musée, 1798, unpublished manuscript, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, p. 714, as 'le portrait de sa fille'.

(Probably) J.B. Pierre Le Brun, Mélanges aux Auteurs du Journal, Journal de Paris, VI, p. 1521.

'La Galerie Charpentier: Une vente de tableaux anciens produit près de 40 millions,' Le Figaro, June 1955, illustrated.

J. Baillio, Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun 1755-1842, exhibition catalogue, Fort Worth, TX, 1982, pp. 14, 19 and 76, under no. 25, as whereabouts undetermined.

S. Evans, trans., The Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, London, 1989, pp. 27, 211.

X. Salmon and L. Hugues, L'enfant chéri au siècle des Lumières: après l'Émile, exhibition catalogue, Cholet, 2003, p. 62 and 157, fig.3.3.

J. Baillio and X. Salmon, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, exhibition catalogue (French edition), Paris, New York, and Ottawa, 2015-16, p. 336.



Exhibited

(Probably) Paris, Salon, 1798, no. 252, as 'Portrait de sa Fille'.
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