A Fashionable Noblewoman Wearing a Plumed Hat
c. 1789
Artist, French, 1749 - 1803

Artwork overview
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Medium
pastel on blue laid paper mounted on canvas (on strainer/stretcher)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (oval): 55 x 46 cm (21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.)
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Accession
1999.92.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Passez 1973, no. 89
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mme. Guiraud, by 1902(?) (Lugt undescribed). Richard Thalmann, by 1926 (Lugt undescribed).[1] Private Collection, France, until 1999; (Artemis SA Luxembourg Succursale de Geneve, Switzerland); purchased 1999 by NGA.
[1] This drawing does not appear to be among those seized by the Nazis from Thalmann, according to files at the National Archives.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1787
possibly Salon de l'Academie Royale, Paris, no. 116 (based on the possible identification of the sitter as the Vicomtesse de Gand).
1926
Femmes Peintres, Hôtel des Négociants en Objets d'Art, Paris, no. 56.
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 254-255, 291, no. 111 (color).
2019
The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1902
Portalis, Baron Roger. "Adélaïde Labille-Guiard." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, I (1902): p. 48.
Portalis, Baron Roger. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Paris, 1902, 46.
1909
Macfall, Haldane. The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century. London, 1909: 192.
1946
Ratouis de Limay, Paul. Le Pastel en France au XVIIIème siècle. Paris, 1946: 106, 216.
1947
Ratouis de Limay, P. "Une portraitiste du XVIIIème siècle, Madame Labille-Guiard." Le Dessin 3 (1947): 106.
1968
Johann Georg, Prinz vol Hohenzollern. "Das Bildnis der Marquise de La Valette." Pantheon XXVI (1968): 477.
1973
Passez, Anne Marie. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1749-1803: Biographie et catalogue raisonné de son oeuvre. Paris, 1973: 199, 200, no. 89, pl. LXXII (as location unknown)
2000
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Marie-Josèphe Félicité de La Rochefoucauld, vicomtesse de Gand." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 23 (Spring 2000): 8.
2006
Jeffares, Neil. Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800. London, 2006: 271.
2009
Auricchio, Laura. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution. Los Angeles, 2009: no. U.22 (as "Portrait of a Woman Identified as the Vicomtesse de Gand")
2015
Burns, Thea, and Phiippe Saunier. The Art of the Pastel. New York, 2015: 105.
Wikidata ID
Q64533273