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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 dAguesseau?)"
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 Artists 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
Artists Brother"
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas
City:
1784
"Marie-Gabrielle de Gramont,
Duchesse de Caderousse"
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
City:
Visit Vigée Le Brun at the MET
1781 "Self
Portrait"
1783
"Madame Catherine-Noële
Worlée Grand, later Princess de Talleyrand-Périgord"
1787 "Alexandre
Charles Emmanuel dUzès, 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 Artists
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 dEspagnac"
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
dAmboise:
1789
"Louise Marie
Adélaïde de Penthièvre, The Duchesse
dOrléans"
Musée dAngers:
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 dAboville, 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 dOrléans"
[Original is
owned by Collection Comte de Paris, Fondation
Saint Louis, Château dAmboise.]
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 DEsthal"
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
dAguesseau, 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 dOrléans"
[Original is owned by
Collection Comte de Paris, Fondation Saint Louis, Château
dAmboise.]
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 dAboville, 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 VLBs
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 VLBs 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 dAguesseau ?"
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 doesnt 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 dAumont, La duchesse de Piennes"
UKRAINE
Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Kiev:
1797
"Stanislaus II Augustus
Poniatowski, King of Poland"
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