Lot 559
  • 559

After Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun
  • Self-Portrait of the artist
  • oil on panel, oval
  • 4 3/4 by 4 in.; 12.3 by 10.2 cm.

Provenance

M.A. Lindon Collection

Exhibited

Paris, Hôtel des Négociants, Femmes Peintres du XVIIIe Siècle, May 14 - June 6, 1926, p. 53, no. 102 (as Vigée-Lebrun).

Literature

Femmes Pientres du XVIIIe  Siècle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel des Négociants, 14 May - 6 June 1926, p. 53, cat. no. 102 (as Vigée-Lebrun).

Condition

Surface in generally good condition aside from uneven varnish. Under UV; some newer uneven varnish; a possible spot of retouch along left edge of face and above hat to right.
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Catalogue Note

The present work is a bust-length repetition of Vigée Le Brun's Self-Portrait at the Easel, executed in 1790 and located in the Corridoio Vasariano, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.