Details
Circle of Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755-1842)
Self-portrait
oil on canvas, oval
25 3/8 x 21¼ in. (64.5 x 54 cm.)
Provenance
with Jacques Seligmann, Paris, until 1927, from whom acquired by
William R. Timken (d. 1949), New York, and by inheritance to his widow, Mrs. William R. (Lillian S.) Timken, New York, by whom bequeathed in 1959 to
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Literature
R.J. Goldwater, 'Artists Painted by Themselves: Self-portraits from Baroque to Impressionism,' Art News, XXXVIII, 30 March 1940, p. 11, as Vigée Le Brun.
J. Baillio, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1755-1842, exhibition catalogue, Fort Worth, 1982, pp. 47, under no. 11.
H.T. Douwes Dekker, 'Gli autoritratti di Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842),' Antichità viva, XXII, no. 4, July-August 1983, pp. 32, 34, no. 4d.
Exhibited
New York, Jacques Seligmann, Exhibition Illustrating the Works of Fifteen Masters of the Eighteenth Century, 1940, no. 11, as Vigée Le Brun.
New York, Schaeffer Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Self-portraits, Baroque to Impressionism, 2-30 April 1940, no. 28, as Vigée Le Brun.
New York, World's Fair, Masterpieces of Art: European & American Paintings, 1500-1900, May-October 1940, no. 226, as Vigée Le Brun.
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