Live Auction 2818Old Master Paintings Part II
Circle of Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755-1842)
Lot 202 PROPERTY FROM THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE EUROPEAN PAINTINGS ACQUISITIONS FUND

Circle of Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755-1842)

Self-portrait

Closed30 January 2014

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Circle of Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755-1842)
Self-portrait
oil on canvas, oval
25 3/8 x 21¼ in. (64.5 x 54 cm.)

with Jacques Seligmann, Paris, until 1927, from whom acquired by
William R. Timken (d. 1949), New York, and by inheritance to his widow, Mrs. William R. (Lillian S.) Timken, New York, by whom bequeathed in 1959 to
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Specialist note

The Metropolitan canvas is a fine, late 18th-century copy of the celebrated Self portrait 'aux rubans cerise' by Vigée Le Brun that is known, according to Joseph Baillio, in three autograph versions: a signed canvas in the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; a signed version on panel formerly in the Greffulhe collection; and a version formerly in the L. Lévy collection, Paris.