File:Madame le Sèvre by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842).jpg

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Artist
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun  (1755–1842)  wikidata:Q213163 s:fr:Auteur:Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun q:fr:Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
 
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Alternative names
Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun; Vigée-Le Brun; Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun
Description French portrait painter
Date of birth/death 16 April 1755 Edit this at Wikidata 30 March 1842 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
Work location
Vienna; Antwerp; City of Brussels; Paris; Versailles; Berlin; Rome; Amsterdam; The Hague; Rotterdam; Russia; London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q213163
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Madame Le Sèvre, fashionable hairdresser in Paris, née Jeanne Maissin (1728-1800), mother of Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755-1842)
Date circa 1774-1778
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 65 cm (25.5 in); width: 54 cm (21.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,65U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,54U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Current location
Object history

Provenance:

  • Collection of the artist, Paris, until her death in 1842; presumably by inheritance to her niece, Caroline Vigée Rivière, Paris and Louveciennes, and by descent in the family through the second half of the 19th century.
  • Comtesse de la Ferronays, Paris; (+), Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 12 April 1897, lot 18 as 'Portrait de L. de Lostenges, Marquise de la Ferronays' (5800 francs).
  • Private collection, France, until 1985.
  • Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 22 June 1985, lot 179 (the sitter misidentified as the Marquise de la Ferronnays).
  • with Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York, until 1985.
  • Auction: Christie's, Sale 9318, New York, 27 January 2000, Important Old Master Paintings, lot 68, ($134,500), Anonymous sale, where acquired by the present owner, Christie's, LotFinder: entry 1710630
  • Auction: Christies, Sale 2624, New York, 25 January 2012, The Art of France, lot 139, Property of a Gentleman.
Exhibition history
  • Paris. Grand Palais, Galeries nationales, Gras Savoye. "Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun," September 23, 2015–January 11, 2016.
  • New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France," February 15–May 15, 2016.
  • Ottawa. National Gallery of Canada. "Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842): The Portraitist to Marie Antoinette," June 10–September 11, 2016.
References Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 656923)
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5529699

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