LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

43.78 in. (111.20 cm.) (height) by 35.98 in. (91.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, dated, and inscribed ‘L.E. Vigée / Le Brun / a petersbourg / 1798’ (lower right)

Exhibited:

London, Wildenstein Gallery, Important paintings of the French XVIII century , 21 March-26 April 1956, no. 8, as 'Countess Razumoffska'. Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, De Watteau à Prud’hon, 11 May-31 May 1956, no. 91, as 'Countess Razumoffska'. Milwaukee, Art Center, Collecting the Masters , 3 June-11 July 1968, as 'Countess Razumoffska'. Oklahoma City, The Oklahoma Museum of Art, Masters of the Portrait, 4 March-29 April 1979, no. 17. London, Wildenstein Gallery, French Portraits: XVII-XX Century, 16 June-30 July 1982, as 'Portrait of Charlotte Ritt'

Literature:

E. L. Vigée Le Brun, Souvenirs , Paris, 1837, III, p. 347. A. Blum, Madame Vigée-Lebrun, peintre des grandes dames du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1919, p. 102. 'Important paintings of the French 18th century', Illustrated London News, CCXXVIII, 14 April 1956, p. 307 . F. Watson, 'Dernières images avant appareillage- le XVIIIe siècle français embarque sur le France', L’œil , no. 269, December 1977, p. 25. J. Baillio, 'Identification de quelques portraits d’anonymes de Vigée Le Brun aux Etats-Unis', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XCVI, November 1980, pp. 158,164-167, fig. 1798, as 'Portrait de Charlotte Ritt'. E. L. Vigée Le Brun, Mémoires d’une portraitiste 1755-1842 , Paris, 1989, p. 153, illustrated, the sitter wrongly identified as Princess Anna Alexandrovna Galitzine

Provenance:

with Wildenstein, New York, where acquired by the present owner