Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751-1824)

Portrait of Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun reading a letter seated in a garden

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Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751-1824)
Portrait of Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun reading a letter seated in a garden
signed 'L.M.' and signed and dated 'Lemoine dess. 1783.' on the mount
black chalk, stumped
195/8 x 163/8 in. (497 x 417 mm.)

Provenance

The mounter's mark ARD (L. 172).
Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun.
M. Paulme (L. 1910); Paris, 14 May 1929, lot 138.
Louis Hachette.
Anon. sale; Paris, 6 April 1957, lot 4.

Literature

M.-C.-C. Pahin Champlain de la Blancherie in Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, 1783, XIII, pp. 103-4.
G. Le Breton, 'J.-A.-M. Lemoine, peintre rouennais', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1914, II, p. 31.
M. Jeune, 'Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine', La Révolution en Haute-Normandie, Rouen, 1988, p. 289.
N. Jeffares, 'Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751-1824)', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, February 1999, pp. 99-100, no. 44 (with more literature).

Exhibited

Paris, Salon de la Correspondance, 26 March 1783 (see following lot).
Copenhagen, L'art français au XVIIIe siècle, 1935, no. 423.

Lot Essay

This is part of a series of drawings of full-length portraits Lemoine developed in the early 1780s. Neil Jeffares suggests that Lemoine had met Madame Vigée-Lebrun through her husband the dealer Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, with whom he exhibited pastels and chalk drawings.

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