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ART PAGE 172

Self Portrait - 1808
Oil on canvas
"The only payment I was able to make M. and Mme Konig for their hospitality, was a self portrait in oil that I sent them from Paris.: - Footnote 1, Switzerland Letter IX.
Comte de Jaucourt - 1772
Oil on canvas
Louis-Pierre de Jaucourt d'Espeuilles (1726-1813), fils de Pierre Antoine II de Jaucourt d'Espeuilles, marquis de Naillac, et de Marie de Vivans, marechal de camp et armees du roi, collaborateur a l'Encyclopedie de Diderot, chevalier de Saint-Louis. Married Sophie Gilly (died 1774), a cousin of Mme Perregaux. In 1777 he married again, to Elisabeth de Lachatre.
Anatole Brongniart - 1778
Drawing
The architect Alexandre-Theodore Brongniart sheltered the artist during the French Revolution. vlb painted his grandchildren, the children of Alexandre Brongniart and Cecile Coquebert de Montbret.

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