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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Portrait of Madame du Barry (1743-1793), three-quarter-length, seated in a landscape  wikidata:Q63283649 reasonator:Q63283649
Artist
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun  (1755–1842)  wikidata:Q213163 s:fr:Auteur:Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun q:fr:Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
 
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Alternative names
Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun; Vigée-Le Brun; Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun
Description French painter, salonnière, writer and artist
Date of birth/death 16 April 1755 Edit this at Wikidata 30 March 1842 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Vienna; Antwerp; City of Brussels; Paris; Versailles; Berlin; Rome; Amsterdam; The Hague; Rotterdam; Russia; London Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q213163
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Title
Portrait of Madame du Barry (1743-1793), three-quarter-length, seated in a landscape
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Madame du Barry (1743-1793), three-quarter-length, seated in a landscape"
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait de Madame du Barry"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Madame du Barry Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1789 - completed it in the early to mid-1820s
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 130.4 cm (51.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 97.8 cm (38.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+130.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+97.8U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Place of creation France
Object history

Provenance:

  • The sitter, by whom commissioned at the old Château de Louveciennes in summer 1789, but left unfinished and presumably entrusted to
  • Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé (1734-1792), Duc de Brissac, and perhaps retrieved at his residence with other portraits of Madame Du Barry in September 1793 by
  • Louis Antoine Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (1733-1807), later 6th Duc de Rohan
  • Louis Marie Jacques Amalric, comte de Narbonne-Lara (1755-1813), by whom restored after 1802 to
  • Madame Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), Hôtel Le Brun, rue du Gros-Chenet, Paris, later completed by her and after her death, described in the estate inventory drafted in her Paris residence in the Château du Coq on the rue Saint-Lazare as 'Un Portrait de Mad. Dubarri a mi jambe en costume de fete & tenant une fleur assise au milieu d'un Parterre dans son cadre de Bois doré', and by inheritance to her niece
  • Caroline Vigée (1791-1864) and her husband Jean-Nicolas-Louis de Rivière (1778-1861), Paris and Versailles, and by whom presumably sold circa 1845 to
  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), Prince de Bénévent (1754-1838), Paris and Château de Valençay, Valençay; (†) his sale, Hôtel des Ventes Mobilières, Paris, 9-10 March 1847, lot 69, where presumably acquired by
  • Justin Tripier Le Franc (1805-1883) and his wife Françoise-Élisabeth ('Eugénie') Le Brun (1797-1872), Paris and Passy; (†) his estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 5-7 June 1883, lot 5.
  • A Prince of Hohenlohe, possibly Chlodwig Carl Viktor (1819-1901), Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince of Ratibor and Corvey.
  • with Eugène Kraemer, Paris, from whom acquired for 150,000 francs on 18 January 1911 by
  • Eugène-Charles-Joachim Fould (1876-1929), Baron Fould-Springer and his wife Maria Cécilia von Springer (1886-1978), Paris, and by descent to their daughter
  • Baroness Élie de Rothschild, née Liliane Fould-Springer (1916-2003), Paris, and by descent to the present owners.
  • Auction: Christie's, Live Auction 17147, 30 April 2019, Old Masters, lot 33.
Exhibition history
  • Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Célébrités Françaises, 1953-1954, no. 185.
  • London, Royal Academy of Arts, European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, 27 November 1954-27 February 1955, no. 342.
References Christie's object ID: 6198702 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 6198702
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