Élisabeth Louise Vigée (later Madame Vigée Le Brun)

Collection of the artist, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), Paris (1842 inv.);

Thence by inheritance to her niece, Baronne de Rivière (née Charlotte-Jeanne-Élisabeth-Louise ["Caroline"] Vigée; 1791-1864), Paris, Louvenciennes, and Versailles;

Thence by descent until the second half of the nineteenth century, when sold to the Comtesse de la Ferronnays, née Marie-Louise-Guillemine Gibert (1819-1906);

Her estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 12 April 1897, lot 18 (with the sitter misidentified), for 5,800 francs;

With Galerie Bailly, Geneva and Paris;

Anonymous sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 22 June 1985, lot 179 (with the sitter misidentified);

Where acquired by Colnaghi;

With Stair Sainty Mathiessen, New York;

From whom acquired by a private collector;

By whom anonymously sold ("The Property of a Private Collector"), New York, Christie's, 27 January 2000, lot 68;

Where acquired by Dr. and Mrs. Ira Kaufman, New York;

By whom anonymously sold ("Property of a Gentleman"), New York, Christie's, 25 January 2012, lot 139;

Where acquired by the present collector.

J. Tripier Le Franc, Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M^me Le Brun, Paris 1828, pp. 179-180;

E.L. Vigée Le Brun, Souvenirs de Madame Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Paris 1835, vol. I, pp. 23, 318;

P. de Nolhac, Madame Vigée-Le Brun, peintre de la reine Marie-Antoinette, 1755-1842, Paris 1908, p. 20;

W.H. Helm, Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842: Her Life, Works, and Friendships, London 1915, p. 197;

J. Baillio, “Quelques peintures réattribuées à Vigée Le Brun,” in Gazette des beaux-arts 99 (January 1982), p. 14 (citing an erroneous account by Caroline Rivière's descendants to the effect that the present portrait was destroyed);

J. Baillio, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1755-1842, exhibition catalogue, Fort Worth 1982, p. 32, under cat. no. 2;

A. Wintermute, in The French Portrait 1550-1850, exhibition catalogue, A. Wintermute (ed.), New York 1996, pp. 56-57, reproduced plate 15;

D. Garstang, in The French Portrait 1550-1850, exhibition catalogue, A. Wintermute (ed.), New York 1996, p. 99, reproduced;

G. Haroche-Bouzinac, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Histoire d’un regard, Paris 2011, pp. 513, 523, reproduced fig. 2;

É.L. Vigée Le Brun, Souvenirs de Madame Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, P. Weillers (ed.), Paris 2015, vol. I, p. 17, reproduced;

J. Baillio, in Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, exhibition catalogue, J. Baillio and X. Salmon (eds.), Paris 2015, p. 111, cat. no. 18, reproduced;

J. Baillio, in Vigée Le Brun, exhibition catalogue, New York 2016, p. 62, cat. no. 2; p. 243, reproduced p. 63;

J. Baillio, in The Gaudium Collection, Old Master Highlights Outside of Portugal, C. Lodovica de Angelis Corvi (ed.), Florence 2020, p. 128, reproduced;

X. Salmon, in Cent portraits pour un siècle, De la cour à la ville sous les règnes de Louis XV et Louis XVI, exhibition catalogue, Versailles 2020, p. 172, under cat. no. 85.

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Ottawa, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 23 September 2015 - 12 September 2016, no. 18 (Paris), no. 2 (New York and Ottawa).