Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil (1740-1817);

By inheritance to his widow, Marie Joséphine Hyacinthe Victoire de Vaudreuil (1774-1851);

To her son Comte Charles Philippe Louis Joseph Alfred de Vaudreuil (1796-1880);

His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20 May 1881, lot 2;

Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris;

Baron Leo d’Erlanger, London;

By inheritance to his sons, Leo d’Erlanger and Commodore Gerald d’Erlanger;

Their sale, London, Knight Frank & Rutley, 25 March 1946, lot 29;

With Frank Sabin, London;

Acquired at some point by Madame Pedro d’Assise Mascarenhas de Barros, née Thérèse Henriette Marie Diane Céline Odette de Polignac (1916-2014), Lisbon;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 11 December 1991, lot 79;

Where acquired by the present owner.

G. Brière, ”Catalogue critique…”, in Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français, 1909, p. 140;

J. Baillio, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun 1755-1842, exhibition catalogue, Fort Worth 1982, cat. no. 14, p. 54;

S. Binet, “Lumières sur la Junqueira," in Décoration internationale, June - July 1987, pp. 64, 66, 69, cat. no. 98, reproduced;

O. Ribeton, Les Gramont, portraits de famille XVI-XVIIIe siècles, Biarritz 1992, pp. 21-27, cat. no. 6, reproduced;

J. Baillio, “Vigée Le Brun pastelliste et son portrait de la duchesse de Guiche,” in L’Oeil, June 1993, pp. 20-29, reproduced p. 21;

The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier, A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein’s Presence in New York, exhibition catalogue, New York 2005, p. 303, cat. no. 130, reproduced;

N. Jeffares, "Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun," Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London 2006, pp. 549-550, reproduced;

M. Shelley, “Painting in the Dry Manner: The Flourishing of Pastel in 18^th Century Europe,” in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, (Spring 2011), vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 41- 42, cat. no. 28, reproduced p. 40 and p. 41 (detail);

N. Jeffares, op. cit., online edition [http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/VigeeLeBrun.pdf], accessed 31 May 2023, cat. no. J.76.217, reproduced;

J. Baillio and X. Salmon, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2015, pp. 224-225, 355, cat. no. 88 (entry by Xavier Salmon), reproduced;

J. Baillio, K. Baetjer, and P. Lang, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, exhibition catalogue, New York and Ottawa 2016, pp. 94-95, 245, cat. no. 20 (entry by Xavier Salmon), reproduced p. 95

Paris, Salle du Jeu de Paume, Cent portraits de femmes des écoles anglaise et française du XVIIIe siècle, April - July 1909, no. 121;

London, Frank T. Sabin, Centenary Exhibition – French Painting, 1948, no. 26;

Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1998 -1999 (on loan); 

New York, Wildenstein, The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier, A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein’s Presence in New York, 2005-6, no. 130, reproduced;

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th Century Europe, 2011, no. 4;

Paris, Grand Palais; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 2015-16, no. 88 (Paris) and no. 20 (New York and Ottawa).