LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.31 in. (64.30 cm.) (height) by 20.47 in. (52.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'L.E. Vigée Le Brun / à Vienne 1794' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Tokyo, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Créer au féminin: Femmes artistes du siècle de Madame Vigée Le Brun, 1 March-8 May 2011, no. 74

Provenance:

(Possibly) Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711-1794), Vienna. Albert Henry Wiggin (1868-1951), Boston and New York, by 1926, and by descent in 1951 to his daughter Muriel Wiggin Seldon (b. 1897) and her husband Lynde Selden (1891-1972), Greenwich, Connecticut. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 15 June 1977, lot 73. with Wildenstein & Co., New York, from whom acquired by the present owner