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The1982 Kimbell Exhibition Catalog

Mme De Ploignac - ?
oil on canvas
From Angela. More info to follow.
A Boy - ?
oil on canvas
Image of a boy I have found on a Polish web-site http://www.sztukakobiet.friko.pl as a painting by VLB. Does anyone know something about this portrait? I did´t see it before.
Jana

Regarding the portrait of the boy, my Master List has it. The magazine Apollo, 90:cxxxii, Sep 1969, published the same painting (or a copy of it): http://members.aol.com/YourNewCEO/images/v146.jpg . Apollo said that it was "Portrait du Dauphin de France," oil on canvas, oval, 22 7/8" x 18 1/8". Apollo noted that the painting was signed G. Amaury (whoever that was), but nevertheless, the owner attributed the painting to Vigee LeBrun. [This seems bizarre to me. If someone is going to forge a signature to a painting, they will forge a famous artist's name, not sign an unknown artist's name.] Of course, that could raise the question, maybe there was an original by someone famous, perhaps even VLB, and the painting by G. Amaury was a copy of that. That is all I know of the matter, and I didn't think that a painting signed "G. Amaury" was worthy of being listed on the VLB website based on the word of the owner.
Charles

Mdm Sanlot-1776
pastel
livier provided the attached photograph of a pastel by Vigee LeBrun, representing Mme Sanlot.

VLB only listed one portrait of Mme Sanlot, for 1776. My edition says "1 Mme Saulot," but it makes sense that is an error for Sanlot.

We already have one painting which we have placed in that slot: sanlot.jpg on page 171 , Musee promenade de Marly-le-Roi, Louveciennes. Born Marie-Rose Savalette de Magnanville, she married Etienne Rene Agnan Sanlot, fermier general (tax collector). They lived in Paris and chateau du Plessis near Blois. VLB also painted her father (above, "M. de Savalette"), and brother (1777, "M. de Lange").

Rose Bertin - 177?
oil on canvas, 54 x 44 cm
Rose Bertin was Marie Antoinette's dressmaker and milliner.

We removed this from the site to reconsider if it was painted by VLB.

The image of Rose Bertin came from London's Witt library, where it was filed in the Vigee LeBrun drawer. We have no other information about who made the attribution, and it is indeed very suspect.- Charles Stein

Princess Ecaterina Ossipovna Tiufiakin-1801-1802
oil on canvas
ANGELA: This image was Grafinia Sofia Adamovna Zamoiskaia, 1778-1837 by Lampi. I think it's VLB's 1801-1802 Princess Ecaterina Ossipovna Tiufiakin nee Horvath portrait. She's sitting on a cloud bank, flowing scarf, wings.
JANA: This image is Zofia Zamoyska nee Czartoryska by Heinrich Friedrich Fuger (1751-1818).I agree with Angela that this is not by VLB. A copy of this portrait is located at castle Lancut, Poland.
Pages from VLB's sketchbook from Oliver
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I don't think these drawings are by VLB