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ART PAGE 180

Marie-Antoinette - 1779-89
oil on canvas
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Troyes

Prince Aleksei Borisovich Kurakin - 1799
oil on canvas
Unlocated but believed to be in St Petersburg or Moscow
Prince Aleksei Borisovich Kurakin (1759-1829) was Attorney-General under Paul I; Secretary of Domestic Affairs under Alexander I; Chancellor of Capitular Orders (Ordenskii Kapitul) of the Rusian Empire under Nicholas I.He was the younger brother of Prince Alexander Borissovich Kourakin (on Art Page 100), whom VLB also painted.

Mlle Lamoignon - 1778
Miniature after Vigee Le Brun
For 1776, VLB listed a Mme de Lamoignon, Marie-Elisabeth Berryer, who married M. Lamoignon, president de Basville, ministre de Louis XVI. The couple had nine children, and it was considered possible that the 1778 listing was for one of their daughters.Olivier located a miniature of one of their daughters prepared after Vigee le Brun. She is Marie Louise Elisabeth de Lamoignon, who was born in Paris on 3 October 1763. She would later marry Francois-Edouard Mole comte de Champlatreux, who was guillotined during the Terror. She died in 1820. She was the mother of the well-known politician, count Mathieu Mole.

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