Vigée Le Brun's Home Page | Index to Art Pages | Vigée Le Brun's Gallery

ART PAGE 83

Dauphin Louis XVII. The painting is not at Louvre. It is in Musée Leblanc-Duvernoy, Auxerre, France.

Catherine, Comtesse Litta - 1798-1801?
oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm,
Countess Ecaterina Skavronskaya, whom VLB painted in 1790 (Art Page 37 and Art Page 64), and in 1796 (Art Page 17), was widowed in 1793, and married Count Litta in 1798. View a larger black and white version of this image. Attributed to Vigée Le Brun. For some reason this painting is called "La Malicieuse" ("The Vicious One"). Vigee Le Brun had said the sitter was an excellent person.

Dauphin Louis XVII - 1789
oil on canvas
Musee Leblanc-Duvernoy, Auxerre, France
Attributed to Vigee Le Brun. Le Dauphin Louis Charles jouant à painted with a yo - yo which is also known as a l'émigrette. According to yo-yo experts this may be the first painting that includes a yo-yo. The modern yo-yo was introduced at about this time.

A woman - ?
oil on canvas

Vigée Le Brun's Home Page | Index to Art Pages | Vigée Le Brun's Gallery