Pastel on paper, 30 x 40 cm
Private Collection Switzerland
This pastel has been judged by Sothebys experts to be the work of Vigée Le Brun. This pastel is listed in Neil Jeffares' Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800 (pg 10). This Pastel is very similar to Vigée Le Brun's portraits of Countess Tankerville (1800) and Julie Le Brun (1799).
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Medium Format - Large Format - Frame off - Frame off Large format
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Oil on canvas, Oval
Musée de Quimper, France
Photo of the oval painting. From Olivier "The clothes and hairstyle allow us to date it: obviously 1789. Maybe Mme de Savigny or Mme Duvernais ?". Oliver is researching the painting.
This image is now located on Art Page 113
Oil on panel
This is believed to be a 1787 copy by Vigee Le Brun of the countess du Barry painted in 1781. View the original on Art Page 43 and another copy at Art Page 138
This image is now located on Art Page 133
oil on canvas, 30-3/4 x 24-3/4"
Chateau de Wolfsgarten
Grand Duchess Elisaveta Alexeevna, later Empress of Russia, consort of Alexander I. Pavlovitch. This original is in the Collection of the Princess of Hesse Darmstadt, Castle of Wolfsgarten. The portrait was a gift to the Grand Duchess's mother the Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt. One copy is in the Musée Fabre, Montpellier(Art Page 44) and another copy is in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia(Art Page 48).
This image is now located on Art Page 135
Thought to be the Princess Tufiakin portrait until May 2010.
Francis Kelly identified the sitter, based on Vigee Le Brun's sad description in Chap. XXIV of her memoirs. Angela Demutskiy identified a new painting that just came up for auction in NYC that is identified as the Princess Tufiakin portrait. See Art Page 61 for new details.
This image is now located on Art Page 185
Oil on canvas, 78 x 64 cm
The Princess de Lamballe was best friend of Marie Antoinette. She was born in 1749. She was married to Louis Stanislas, the Prince de Lamballe (1747-68), the brother of Louise Marie Adélaïde de Penthièvre (the future Duchesse de Chartres). She was widowed at the age of 19. The Princess de Lamballe died on 3 Sept 1792 in Paris after she returned from England to help her queen. She was decapitated and her body was lacerated. Her head was mounted in a stick and put in front of the window of the temple where Marie Antoinette and the royal family were imprisoned. Another image of the Princess de Lamballe appears on art page 153 and art page 100 . View the 2011 sale information document.
This image is now located on Art Page 190
Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 82.2 cm
Watford Museum, UK
Copy by Vigée Le Brun of her self portrait in the Uffizi Gallery, Frorence on Art Page 6. This paint is in the Watford Museum Collection, UK.. We did not know of this copy of the Uffizi self portrait. The other known copy ( with a different sitter) was painted for the Earl of Bristol by Vigée Le Brun (Art Page 6).
This image is now located on Art Page 190
Oil on canvas
Konopiste Castle, Czech Republic - ?
This painting is thought to be a copy by Vigée Le Brun of the portrait of the Queen on Art Page 31 that is in a private collection. The paintings are slightly different. Konopiste Castle is 50 km south east of Prague in the town of Konopiste. The castle was the home of Archduke Ferdinand, assassinated in Sarajevo at the onset of World War I.
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Oil on canvas, 89 x 72 cm
Maria Ivanovna Bilibina née Kusova (11.6.1784-24.12.1848). M.I Kusova, heiress of a merchant of St. Petersbourg, married Yakov Ivanovich Bilibin (14.3.1779-11.7.1854), son of "Big Bilibin" Ivan Kharitonovich, founder of an industrial empire, mayor of the town of Kaluga twice. Her husband Yakov Ivanovich Bilibin is mentioned several times by Tolstoi in the novel "War and Peace". In 1812 he funded the local Kaluga militia that repelled Napolean's Army. Mme Bilibin is the grandmother of the painter and draughtsman Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, who sold the Hermitage the of works of Dmitry Levitzky. View a larger image of this painting
This image is now located on Art Page 191
pastel, 50 x 49 cm, 19.6 x 19.3 in
Daughter of Pierre Jean Baptiste Gerbier de Massilaye the famous Paris Lawyer. From Vigée Le Brun's Memoirs - "From the age of fifteen, I had been widely known in high society, I knew our first artists, so I was getting invitations from all sides. I remember very well that I had dinner in town for the first time at the sculptor Le Moine, then in high reputation. He was extremely simple, but had the good taste to bring home a host of famous and distinguished men. . . . From Le Moine, I met Gerbier, a famous lawyer, and his daughter, Mrs. Charles de Gaulle, who was very beautiful, and who was one of the first women whose portrait I painted."
Offered for sale by Sotheby's in Paris on 22nd June 2010.
This image is now located on Art Page 191
pastel, 50 x 49 cm, 19.6 x 19.3 in
This image is now located on Art Page 191
pastel
Vigée Le Brun listed two pastels of Queen Louise of Prussia (Berlin 1801). This one is in Castle Dunrobin near Golspie, Scotland. The pastel had been in the possession of George Granville Leveson-Gower, the later 2nd Earl of Sutherland (1786-1861). He was an ardent admirer of the Queen, having met her in Nov. 1806 at Konigsberg.
View an engraving by another artist that seems to be after the castle Dunrobin pastel, though it was reversed and has a different costume.
View the other 1801 pastel on Art Page 43 and the oil painted from that pastel on Art Page 56. Visit the Queen Louise of Prussia page which has been updated with the new pastel from Jana. The story on this page, "My Beautiful Enemy" is my favorite history write ups on this web site. This Queen dared stand up to Napolean in this dangerous period of Europen history. Napolean was obviously captivated.
This image is now located on Art Page 192
oil on canvas
Chateau de Parentignat
Anne Francois de Lastic (1762-1783)
This image is now located on Art Page 192
oil on canvas
Chateau de Parentignat
Anne Louise Hyacinthe Augustine de Montesquiou Fezensac (1761-1823)
This image is now located on Art Page 192
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