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This is an updated and annotated version of the master list of Vigee Le Brun's paintings that originated from The National Gallery of London. The basis of the National Gallery list is the listing contained in the Kimbell Art Museum's 1982 exhibition catalogue. The list has been updated to include many other known Vigee Le brun paintings in U.S. and overseas museums. The additional information was provided by contributors from the U.S. and Europe (Credits). Please check with the museums before travelling to see these works, as museums frequently sell ("deaccession") their work, lend it to other museums, or remove them from display. Additional inputs or corrections to this list are welcome.



UNITED STATES

Arizona

Phoenix Art Museum:
     1791 "Madame Victoire de France"

University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon:
    1793 "Countess von Schönfeld and Her Daughter"

California

Apollo Fine Arts Museum, Apollo (owned by Fellowship of Friends):
     
1793 "Countess Kagenek as Flora"

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles:
     
1785 "Victoire Pauline de Riquet de Caraman, Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil"

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena:
     1793 "Theresa, Countess Kinsky"

California Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco:
     
???? Copy after VLB of 1785 "Bacchante" [Original at Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris]
     1791 "Hyacinthe Gabrielle Rolande (Countess of Mornington, afterwards Marchioness of
          Wellesley)"

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California:
     ???? Copy after VLB, of "Princess Pélagie Potocka," attributed to Auguste Louis
          Jean-Baptiste Rivière.

District of Columbia

National Gallery of Art, Washington:
     
1787 "Marquise de Pezay, Marquise de Rougé and her Sons" (Caroline de Murat, and
          Nathalie-Victorienne de Mortemart, with her sons Alexis-Bonabes and Adrien de Rougé)
     1789 "Portrait of a Lady (Marquise de Fresnes d’Aguesseau?)"

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington:
     
1782 "Mme Du Barry" [Perhaps in the process of being sold]
     ???? "Aniela Angélique Czartoriski, née Radziwill" [The museum refuses to answer
          enquiries as to whether they still own this painting.]

National Museum of Women in the Arts:
     1798 "Princess Anna Grigorievna Belosselsky-Belozersky, née Kositzky"
     1801? "Sketchbook with 38 Portrait Drawings of Women and Children of the Russian Court"
     1817 "Portrait of a Young Boy"

Florida

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg:
     ca. 1799 "Julie Le Brun as Flora"

Indiana

Indianapolis Museum of Art:
      1776 "Prince of Nassau"

Indiana University Art Museum:
     1803 "Mrs. William (Margaret) Chinnery, née Tresilian"

Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, South Bend:
     1786 "Marguerite Baudard de Saint James, marquise de Puységur, dressed as milkmaid"

Louisiana

New Orleans Museum of Art:
     ca. 1788 "Queen Marie Antoinette ("en robe de velours bleu")"

Maryland

Baltimore Museum of Art:
     1796 "Princess Anna Alexandrovna Galitzin, née Princess Grudzinsk" (Mme. de Litzine during
          her first marriage.)

Massachusetts

Boston Museum of Fine Arts:
     ca. 1772 "Standing Woman Holding a Sheet of Music (The Artist’s Mother?)"
     1797 "Portrait of a Woman (Countess Vorontzov?)"

Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown:
     1785 "Bacchante"

Minnesota

Minneapolis Institute of Arts:
     1793 "Countess Maria Theresia Bucquoi, née Paar"

Missouri

St. Louis Art Museum:
     1769? "Etienne Vigée, the Artist’s Brother"

Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City:
     1784 "Marie-Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchesse de Caderousse"

New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
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     1781 "Self Portrait"
     1783 "Madame Catherine-Noële Worlée Grand, later Princess de Talleyrand-Périgord"
     1787 "Alexandre Charles Emmanuel d’Uzès, the Bailli de Crussol-Florensac"
     1789 "Comtesse de La Châtre"

Pierpont Morgan Library:
     1800? "Self portrait"

North Carolina

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh:
     1793? "Portrait of a young girl"
     1795-97 "Ivan Ivanovitch Chouvaloff"

Ohio

Cincinnati Art Museum:
     1793? “Portrait of a Young Woman Playing the Lyre" [This seems to be a signature copy of
          "Sophia Fries, the Future Countess Haugwitz, playing a lyre as Sappho,” which is
          located at the National Castle Museum of Jaromerice, Czech Republic. Baillio suggested
          that the sitter wasn't Sophia Fries, though his reason is unknown to us.]

Columbus Museum of Art:
     1800 "Varvara Ivanovna Ladomirsky, later Narychkin"

Toledo Museum of Art:
     1784 "Lady Folding a Letter (? The Comtesse de Cérès)"
     1792? "Isabella Marini"

Puerto Rico

Museo de Arte de Ponce:
     1785? "Comtesse de Chastenay"

Texas

Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth:
      1781-82 "Self Portrait" (aux rubans cerise)

Utah

Utah Museum of Fine Arts:
     1799 "Princess Eudocia Ivanovna Galitzine, née Izmailov (as Flora)"
     1797 "Elizabeth Vladimirovna, Countess Chouvaloff"

Virginia

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond:
     1784 "The Comte de Vaudreuil"

AUSTRIA

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna:
     1778 "Marie Antoinette, (wearing white satin "robe à paniers")"
      ???? "Countess Urbana as Flora"

Belvedere, Vienna:
     1815 "Lady in Napoleonic Dress"

  

BELGIUM

Musées Communaux, Verviers:
     ???? "Self portrait"

 

 

CZECH REPUBLIC

National Castle Museum of Jaromerice:
     1793? "? Sophia Fries, the Future Countess Haugwitz, playing a lyre as Sappho ?" [A copy is
          in the Cincinnati Art Museum, and they have retitled it to "Portrait of a Young Woman
          Playing a Lyre," after Baillio gave his opinion that the sitter wasn't Sophia Fries.]

ENGLAND

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham:
     1797-1800 "Countess Varvara Nikolaevna Golovin, née Princess Galitzine"

Brighton Art Gallery:
     ???? "Self-portrait"

National Trust, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire:
     1783? "Yolande Gabrielle Martine de Polastron, Duchesse de Polignac"

National Trust, Polesden Lacey, Dorking, Surrey:
     Anonymous copy of 1769? "Etienne Vigee, the Artist’s Brother" [Original is in St. Louis
          Art Museum.]

National Trust, Ickworth, Suffolk:
     1790 "Self Portrait"
     1791 "Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry"

National Trust, Sevenoaks, Knole, Kent:
     1803 "Arabella Diana, Duchess of Dorset"

Heinz Archive and Library, National Portrait Gallery, London:
     "Jean Baptiste Pierre Le Brun" [Miniature; perhaps after VLB, though she never
          mentions painting her husband.]

National Gallery, London:
     1782 "Self Portrait (with straw hat)"
     1788 "Alexandrine Emilie Brongniart"

Wallace Collection, London:
     1786 "Le Petit d’Espagnac"
     1789 "Madame Adélaïde Perrégaux"

Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight:
     1790-91 "Emma Hamilton as Bacchante"

Windsor Castle Royal Collection:
     1784? "Charles Alexandre de Calonne" [Sometimes on loan to other museums.]

 

 

FRANCE

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Alençon:
     "La Princess de Polignac"

Collection Comte de Paris, Fondation Saint Louis, Château d’Amboise:
     1789 "Louise Marie Adélaïde de Penthièvre, The Duchesse d’Orléans"

Musée d’Angers:
     1779 "Innocence Taking Refuge in the Arms of Justice"

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux:
     "Hebe"

Collection of the Marquis de Moustier, Château de Bournel:
     Half-length studio copy of 1788 "Queen Marie Antoinette ("en robe de velours bleu")"
          [Original at Musée National du Château de Versailles.]

Brissac collection, Château de Brissac:
     1778 "Louis-Hercule Timoleon de Cossé, duc de Brissac"

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen:
     1775 "Portrait of a young girl"

Chambéry, Musée Savoisien:
     1808 "Le Mont-Blanc"

Condé Chantilly:
     copy of 1790 "Maria Theresa, later Empress of Austria" [Original is at Museo e Gallerie
          Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples.]
     copy of 1790 "Maria Luisa Amelie, later Grand Duchesse of Tuscany" [Original is at
          Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples.]
     copy of 1790 Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples" [The original was lost in a fire. Signature copies are at theMuseo del Prado and Condé Chantilly. It is uncertain which copy is represented by
          this particular image.]

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chartres:
     "La comtesse du Cluzel"

Marquis de la Guiche, Château de Chaumont:
     1783 "Marquise de la Guiche as a Milkmaid"

Musée Jeanne d’Aboville, La Fére:
     1791 "Madame Adélaïde de France"

Musée Fragonard, Grasse:
     "Mme de Castellane"

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre:
    "A woman"

Museum of Louveciennes:
     1821 "Saint Geneviève"

Musée de Longchamp, Marseilles:
     Copy after VLB is on deposit from Musée National du Château de Versailles, of 1789
          "Louise Marie Adélaïde de Penthièvre, The Duchesse d’Orléans" [Original is
          owned by Collection Comte de Paris, Fondation Saint Louis, Château d’Amboise.]

Musée Fabre, Montpellier:
     1795-1801? "Grand Duchess Elisaveta Alexeevna, later Empress of Russia" (Consort of
          Alexander I). [Original is in the Collection of the Princess of Hesse Darmstadt, Castle of
          Wolfsgarten.]

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans:
     1780 "Mme Lesould"

Collection Marquis de Lastic, Château de Parentignat:
     1786 "Louis-Charles, duc de Normandie"
     1786 "Sophie-Hélène-Béatrix de France, asleep in her cradle"

Galerie Cailleux, Paris [Commercial gallery; are these works still there?]:
     ca. 1772 "The Children of the Baronne D’Esthal"
     1778 "My head"

Musée Carnavalet, Paris:
     1784-85 "Nicolas Beaujon"

Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris:
     1774 "Marie-Louise-Adélaïde-Jacquette de Robien"
     1783-85 "Portrait of a Dancer"
     ???? "Femme en haute coiffe d'organdie"

Hôtel Drouot, Paris: (Auction house; is this work in their permanent collection?)
     1780 "Venus Binding the Wings of Cupid"

Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris:
     1790 "Countess Ecaterina Vassilievna Skavronskaya, née Engelhardt"

Musée de Louvre, Paris:
     1778 "Joseph Vernet"
     1780 "Peace Bringing Back Abundance"
     1785 "Girl Crowned with Roses"
     1786 "Madame Molé-Raymond"
     1786 "Self-Portrait with her Daughter (Maternal tenderness)"
     1788 "The Artist Hubert Robert"
     1789 "Self Portrait with Daughter (à la Grecque)"
     1789 "Dauphin Louis Charles playing with a yo-yo [emigrette]" [Attributed to VLB]
     1789? "Mme Pierre Rousseau with her Daughter"
     1793? "Count Moriz Fries"
     1796 "Countess Ecaterina Vassilievna Skavronskaya, née Engelhardt"
     ???? "A girl"

Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris:
     1785 "Bacchante"
     1788 "Mme Geneviève Sophie Le Coulteux du Molay"

Musee des Beaux Arts, Rouen:
     1805 "Giuseppina Grassini in the role of Zaïra"

Musée Municipal, Saint-Germain-en-Laye:
     1780 "Madame de Saint Hubert"

Comte Jean-François de Roussy de Sales, Château de Thorens, Thorens-Glieres:
     1787-88 "Marquise de Grollier"

Musée des Augustins, Toulouse:
     1785 "Baronne de Crussol"

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Troyes:
     1830 "Comtesse de Bossencourt"

Musée National du Château de Versailles:
     1775 "Jean de La Bruyère"
     1775 "André Cardinal de Fleury"
     copy of 1778 "Marie Antoinette (wearing white satin "robe à paniers")"[Original is in
          Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.]
     1779 "Alexandre Marie Leonor de Saint-Mauris, prince de Montbarrey"
     1782 "Madame Elisabeth of France"
     1782 "Madame Elisabeth of France" [unsure if this is at Versailles]
     ???? "Madame Elisabeth"
     1783 "Marie Antoinette, ("à la rose")"
     ???? "Marie Antoinette"
     1784 "Madame Royale and the Dauphin Louis Joseph"
     1785 "Antoinette-Elisabeth-Marie d’Aguesseau, Comtesse de Ségur"
     1785 "Charles-Louis-Philippe de Ségur"
     1785 "André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry"
     1787 "Queen Marie Antoinette and Her Children"
     1788 "Queen Marie Antoinette ("en robe de velours bleu")"
     ca. 1788 "Queen Marie Antoinette ("en robe de velours bleu")," drawing
     copy after VLB of 1789 "Louise Marie Adélaïde de Penthièvre, The Duchesse d’Orléans"
          [Original is owned by Collection Comte de Paris, Fondation Saint Louis, Château
          d’Amboise.]
     1789 "Philippe Henri, Marquis de Ségur"
     1789? "Baron de Breteuil"
     copy (by VLB?, or anonymous?) of 1791 "Madame Adélaïde de France" [Original is at
          Musée Jeanne d’Aboville, La Fére.]
     1791 "Giovanni Paisiello"
     1797 "Stanislaus II Augustus Poniatowski, King of Poland"
     1806 "Caroline Murat with her daughter, Letizia"
     1807 "Marie Caroline, Queen of Naples," Versailles. [Perhaps this is a copy of VLB’s
          portrait of 1791, which was destroyed by fire. Small oil on panel copies exist at
          Museo del Prado, Madrid, and Condé Chantilly, France.]

Musee Lauibinet, Versailles:
     Copy by Eugénie Tripier Le Franc of VLB’s 1789-1820 "Mme Du Barry." [Original is in
          a private collection.]

 

 

GERMANY

Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin:
     1786 "Comtesse de Sabran et Pontevès"
     1801 "Louise Agusta von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia"

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin:
     1788 "The Young Prince Lubomirski as the Genius of Fame"

Kurpfalzisches Museum, Heidelberg:
     "A woman"

Collection Princesse de Hesse-Darmstadt, Château de Wolfsgarten:
     1783 "Marie Antoinette, ("en gaulle")"
     1795-1801? "Grand Duchess Elisaveta Alexeevna, later Empress of Russia, consort of
          Alexander I"

Collection of the Prince of Hesse and the Rhine:
     1783 "Marie Antoinette"

 

HUNGARY

Budapest:
     "Esterhazy-Plettenberg Grofine Arcképe" [Not listed or mentioned by VLB. Perhaps in
     a museum in Budapest.]

 

 

ITALY

Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna:
     1789 "Julie Le Brun, looking over her shoulder"

Uffizi, Florence:
     1790 "Self Portrait (painting Marie Antoinette)"

Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples:
     1790 "Maria Theresa, later Empress of Austria"
     1790 "Maria Luisa Amelie, later Grand Duchesse of Tuscany"
     1790 "Francesco di Borbone, later King of the Two Sicilies" (color detail)
     1790 "Maria Cristina, future Queen of Sardinia"
     ???? "Marie-Clementina of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies"

Museo Storico Musicale, Naples:
     "Domenico Cimarosa"

Palazzo Reale, Naples:
     "Marie-Clementina of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies" [Attributed.]

Galleria Nazionale, Parma:
     1792 "Julie Le Brun, wearing a wreath of roses"

Academy of St. Luke, Rome:
     1789-90 "Self Portrait"

Galleria Sabauda, Turin:
     1792 "Daughter of Engraver Porporati"

LIECHTENSTEIN ?

Possession of Fursten Liechtenstein (location uncertain):
     1793 "Princess Maria Josefa Hermenegilde von Esterhazy of Liechtenstein, as Ariadne"

 

NETHERLANDS ?

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam:
     1793-94 "Yolande Gabrielle Martine, Duchess of Polignac"

 

POLAND

Musée au Palais de Nieborów:
     1802 "Helena Czartoryska, née Radziwill"

National Museum, Wroclaw:
     Copy after VLB of 1791 "Anna, Comtesse Potocka" [Original is in a private collection.]

National Museum, Warsaw:
     Copy after VLB of 1793 "Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski" [Original is in a private
          collection.]
     1808 "Countess Wincentowa Potocka"
     ???? "A woman"

 

ROMANIA

National Museum of Art, Bucharest:
     1772 "? Mme d’Aguesseau ?"

 

 

RUSSIA

Pushkin Museum, Moscow:
     1793-95 "Naiads" [A study for "Amphion Playing the Lyre,” which is in a private collection
          in France.]
     1796 "Princess Alexandra Petrovna Galitzine, née Protassov, with her nephew"
     1798 "Countess Sofia Vladimirovna Stroganov, née Princess Galitzine"
     1801? "Serene Princess Ecaterina Iljinishna Koutousov-Smolensky, née Countess Bibikov"
     1806 "Lady with Lyre"

Hermitage, St. Petersburg:
     1788 "Young Prince Lubomirski"
     1793 "Baron and later Count Grigory Alexandrovich Stroganov"
     1793 "Count Grigory Ivanovich Chernyshev Holding a Mask"
     1795-97 "Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna, and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna"
          (Daughters of Paul I)
     1796 "Grand Duchess Elisaveta Alexeevna, later Empress of Russia, consort of Alexander I"
          (full length, arranging flowers in a basket)
     1796-97 "Countess Anna Sergeevna Stroganova and Her Son"
     1797 "Countess Ecaterina Sergeevna Somoilov, née Princess Troubetzkoy"
     1797 "Prince Alexander Borissovich Kourakin"
     1800 "Self-portrait"
     1800 "Empress Maria Fedorovna, consort of Paul I" [In storage for decades.]
     ???? "Allegory of the Genius of Alexander"

 

SCOTLAND

Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire:
     1783-86? "Self Portrait"

 

SLOVENIA

National Gallery, Ljubljana:
     1797? "Elisabeth Isabella Mniszech holding a dog"

 

SPAIN

Francesc Cambó collection, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona:
     1788-90 "Portrait of a girl" [Baillio doesn’t believe this is by VLB.]

Museo del Prado, Madrid:
     1791 "Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples" [The original was lost in a fire. Signature copies
          are at Museo del Prado and Condé Chantilly. It is uncertain which copy is represented
          by this particular image.]

 

SWEDEN

National Museum, Stockholm:
     1811-14 "Flora"
     1781 Ernestine Frederique, Princess de Croy

 

SWITZERLAND

Kunstmuseum, Bern:
     Autograph copy of 1796 "Countess Ecaterina Vassilievna Skavronskaya, née
          Engelhardt" [Original is at Musée de Louvre, Paris.]
     1808-09 "Das Alphirtenfest in Unspunnen"

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Geneva:
     1808-09 "Mme de Staël as Corinne"

Fondation Tatiana Zuboff, Geneva:
     1798? "Julie Le Brun Playing a Guitar"

Kunstmuseum, Lucerne:
     1789 "Melanie de Rochechoüart, Marquise d’Aumont, La duchesse de Piennes"

 

UKRAINE

Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Kiev:
     1797 "Stanislaus II Augustus Poniatowski, King of Poland"




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