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W/colour Self-Portrait Aft.Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
We are pleased to offer for sale this fine watercolour self-portrait after the oil self-portrait by Madame Elisabeth Vigee le Brun, the eminent French portraitist. The watercolour is unsigned but was executed extremely well and is a very good likeness to the original, which was painted in 1790. It depicts Madame le Brun seated at her easel, brush in her right hand, palette and brushes in her left, in the process of painting a portrait.
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun or Madame Le Brun, was a prominent French portrait painter of the late eighteenth century.
Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Her subject matter and color palette can be classified as Rococo, but her style is aligned with the emergence of Neoclassicism. Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Ancien Regime society by serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. She enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities.
Vigée Le Brun created some 660 portraits and 200 landscapes. In addition to many works in private collections, her paintings are owned by major museums, such as the Louvre, Hermitage Museum, National Gallery in London, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and many other collections in continental Europe and the United States.
The original is owned by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence but is on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We have found a detail about the portrait and the reason for it execution, which is quite interesting and which we will copy below:
In Florence, Vigée Le Brun admired the famous collection of artists’ self-portraits in the Corridoio Vasariano at the Uffizi. Asked to add her own image, she later wrote: “I painted myself with a palette in hand, in front of a canvas on which I am drawing the queen in white chalk.” Both her subject and her elegant black silk gown were intended to evoke the power and prestige of her position as a painter to the king of France. The scarlet sash adds a bold touch.
The portrait has been newly double mounted in two tone acid-free mountboard to complement and is newly framed in a 2" rope-edged gilt frame to suit.
Image size: 19 1/4" x 15 7/8" - 48.9cm x 40.35cm
Frame size: 29 1/4" x 26" - 74.3cm x 66cm
Medium: Watercolours on paper
Condition: In very good condition for its age, with strong colour and no fading. The mounts and frame are new.
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun or Madame Le Brun, was a prominent French portrait painter of the late eighteenth century.
Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Her subject matter and color palette can be classified as Rococo, but her style is aligned with the emergence of Neoclassicism. Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Ancien Regime society by serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. She enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities.
Vigée Le Brun created some 660 portraits and 200 landscapes. In addition to many works in private collections, her paintings are owned by major museums, such as the Louvre, Hermitage Museum, National Gallery in London, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and many other collections in continental Europe and the United States.
The original is owned by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence but is on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We have found a detail about the portrait and the reason for it execution, which is quite interesting and which we will copy below:
In Florence, Vigée Le Brun admired the famous collection of artists’ self-portraits in the Corridoio Vasariano at the Uffizi. Asked to add her own image, she later wrote: “I painted myself with a palette in hand, in front of a canvas on which I am drawing the queen in white chalk.” Both her subject and her elegant black silk gown were intended to evoke the power and prestige of her position as a painter to the king of France. The scarlet sash adds a bold touch.
The portrait has been newly double mounted in two tone acid-free mountboard to complement and is newly framed in a 2" rope-edged gilt frame to suit.
Image size: 19 1/4" x 15 7/8" - 48.9cm x 40.35cm
Frame size: 29 1/4" x 26" - 74.3cm x 66cm
Medium: Watercolours on paper
Condition: In very good condition for its age, with strong colour and no fading. The mounts and frame are new.
Price The price has been listed in British Pounds.
Conversion rates as of 1/MAY/2025. Euro & Dollar prices will vary and should only be used as a guide.
Always confirm final price with dealer. SOLD Price confidential so please don't ask. Thank you.
Category Antique Pictures / Engravings / Art
> Antique Watercolours
Period Late 19th Century Antiques
Material Paper
Origin European
Item code as237a1546
Status Sold
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