Description
Mme. Vigee Lebrun is portrayed in three-quarter view holding her young daughter Jeanne in her lap. In the background, a curtain is draped against a column. The artist first visited London after being exiled from France after the Revolution. She anglicized her name while residing in the British capital from 1802 to 1805.
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Provenance
J. Pierpont Morgan Collection; A. Jay Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest [inv. no. A-155]; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
Inscriptions
[Signature] On the pedestal of the column: Elizabeth le Browne, September, 1801
Credit
Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963