LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

54.49 in. (138.40 cm.) (height) by 38.98 in. (99.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

(Probably) Paris, Musée central des Arts, Salon de 1798, no. 153, sent by the artist from Saint Petersburg.

Literature:

W.H. Helm, Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842: Her Life, Works and Friendships, Boston, 1915, p. 113. J. Baillio, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1755-1842, Fort Worth, 1982, pp. 100-101, under no. 36, another version illustrated. H.T. Douwes Dekker, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842, portraits à l'huile, The Hague, 1984, p. 41, no. 245. A. Hottle, 'More Than "A Preposterous Neo-Classic Rehash:" Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun's Sibyl and Its Virgilian Connotations', Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art, XI, 2010, pp. 126-140, fig. 4. J. Baillio, et al., Vigée Le Brun, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London, 2015, p. 157, under no. 50.

Provenance:

(Probably) Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac, duc de Brissac (1775-1848), and by descent in the family until 1919, Cossé-Brissac; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 31 May 1919, lot 99. Anonymous sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 16 March 1959, lot 75. with Hallsborough Gallery, London, by 1965. with Ackermann and Johnson, London, after 1991 (according to a label on the reverse). with Derek Johns, London, from whom acquired by the present owner.