Young French Marquise in Exile in Lausanne

1789

Jean-Baptiste Mallet

Artist, French, 1759 - 1835

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gouache on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Arthur L. Liebman

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21.7 x 30 cm (8 9/16 x 11 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1992.87.12


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

French private collection (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17 June 1931, no. 13 [as les Réfugiés]; to Jacques Seligmann; Mrs. R. Fitzwilliams (sale, London, Christie's, 8 December 1976, no. 112); (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York); Arthur Liebman [d. 1991], Lake Forest, IL; bequest to NGA, 1992.
We seem to have lost an old label that was once attached to the back of the frame: "Jeune marquise française réfugiée à Lausanne avec ses deux fils pendant la Révolution de 1789."

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Inscriptions

by later hand, center verso in black ink: 6308

Wikidata ID

Q64581160


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