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Étienne-Charles Leguay (Sèvres 1762-1846 Paris)
Lot 91 Property of a Private West Coast Collector

Étienne-Charles Leguay (Sèvres 1762-1846 Paris)

Portrait of a young woman, said to be the artist’s wife, Marie-Victoire Jaquotot, her back to a window

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Étienne-Charles Leguay (Sèvres 1762-1846 Paris)
Portrait of a young woman, said to be the artist’s wife, Marie-Victoire Jaquotot, her back to a window
black and white chalk
13 7/8 x 10 ¼ in. (35 x 26 cm)

The artist’s family until 1855.
Alfred Beurdeley, Paris (1847-1919); Georges Petit, Paris, 2-4 June 1920, lot 255.
with Colnaghi, London 1981.
with William H. Schab Gallery, New York 1988.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 9 January 1996, lot 180.
with W.M. Brady & Co., New York, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

Refined in execution, this female portrait is a reminder of Leguay’s schooling as a miniaturist and the works he exhibited as such at the Salon between 1795 and 1799. He was also active as a painter on porcelain for the manufacture in Sèvres. The woman in the drawing has been identified by some as Marie-Victoire Jaquotot (1772-1855), the artist’s second wife and one of his pupils. She is the author of several self-portraits, including a gouache on ivory in the Louvre (inv. RF 377). The similarities between that portrait and the present one are not pronounced. In the 1920 sale of Alfred Beurdeley's collection, the attractive model is left unidentified, though the provenance indicates that the drawing came from the artist’s family.