LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

28.90 in. (73.40 cm.) (height) by 23.11 in. (58.70 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 'Lse LeBrun.f.1783' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Paris, Grand Palais, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 23 September 2015-11 January 2016, no. 56. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France, 9 February-11 September 2016, no. 19.

Literature:

L.-E. Vigée Le Brun, Souvenirs de Madame Louise- Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun, Paris, 1835, I, p. 331. A. Ledieu, Le maréchal de Mailly, dernier commandant pour le roi àAbbeville, Paris, 1895, p. 67, illustrated. A. Ledru, Histoire de la maison de Mailly, Paris, 1893, I, pl. XVIII. R. Baret, 'Une âme exquise: La maréchale de Mailly', La Province du Maine, XXXIX, 1959, p. 62, illustrated.

Provenance:

In the sitter's collection at Paris and château de la Roche de Vaux, Requeil, and by descent to her son, Le comte Adrien Augustin amalric de Mailly d'Harcourt (1792-1878), and by descent to his grandson, Arnould Adrien Joseph de Mailly, marquis de Nesle et d'Harcourt (1853-1897), and by descent to his son, Augustin Christian Robert Ferry, marquis de Mailly- Nesle et d'Harcourt et prince d'Orange (1884-1958), to, Jean-Arnoult Auguste, marquis de Mailly-Nesle et prince d'Orange (1916-2001), château de la Roche Mailly, Requeil and Paris, and sold to the following in 1987. with Maurice Segoura, Paris, from whom acquired by the present owner.