Young French Marquise in Exile in Lausanne
1789
Artist, French, 1759 - 1835

Artwork overview
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Medium
gouache on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 21.7 x 30 cm (8 9/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
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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