The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons Alexis and Adrien, 1787

Overview

Provenance

One of the sitters, Victurnienne Delphine Nathalie, marquise de Rougé [1759-1828, née Rochechouart Mortemart], Paris, Château de la Bellière, Château de Beaune-la-Rolande, and Château de Moreuil; by inheritance to her son, comte Adrien Gabriel Victurnien de Rougé [1782-1838], Château de Guyencourt, Cuyencourt-sur-Noye (Somme); by inheritance to his son, comte Armel-Jean-Victurnien de Rougé [1813-1898]; by inheritance to his son, Armel-Marie-Fernand de Rougé [b. 1847], Paris and Château de Saint-Symphorien-des-Monts (Manche), until at least 1914; by inheritance to his son, comte Jean de Rougé [1880-1960], Château de Saint-Symphorien; presumably to his nephew, Charles-Edouard de Cassagnes de Beaufort de Miramon-Pesteils [b. 1930]; purchased 1960 by (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York); purchased 24 June 1964 by the Bay Foundation, New York; gift 1964 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1787

Salon of 1787, Paris, no. 98.

1963

Style, Truth and the Portrait, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963, no. 67, repro.

1964

Accessions and Proposals, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, no. 10.

1976

The Eye of Thomas Jefferson, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1976, no. 261, repro.

1982

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun 1755-1842, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1982, no. 24, repro., as The Marquise de Pezay and the Marquise de Rougé With Her Sons.

2005

Baillio, Joseph. The Arts of France from François 1er to Napoléon 1er. (Exh. cat. Wildenstein & Co.) New York, 2005: 74, 61, repro., fig. 67.

2011

Female Creators: Women Artists from the Century of Madame Vigée Le Brun, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, 2011, no. 64, repro.

2015

Elisabeth Louise Vigée le Brun (1755-1842), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2015-2016.

Bibliography

1787

Journal Général de France 1787. "Discours des morts sur les tableaux exposés en 1787." In Collection Deloynes, 1881: vol. 15, msp. 938.

1787

Les grandes prophéties du grand Nostradamus. . . . Paris, 1787: 25.

1787

Potocki, Stanislas Kostka. Lettre d’un étranger sur le Salon de 1787. Paris, 1787: 17-18.

1787

Robin, Jean Baptiste. L’ami des artistes au salon. Paris, 1787: 35.

1835

Vigée Le Brun, Élisabeth Louise. Souvenirs de Madame Louise-Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. . . . 3 vols. Paris, 1835 – 1837: 1:92.

1881

“Discours des morts sur les tableaux exposés en 1787.” In Collection de pièces sur les beaux-arts (1673-1808) . Ed. by M. Deloynes. Paris, 1881: vol. 15.

1908

Nolhac, Pierre de. Madame Vigée-Le Brun, peintre de la reine Marie-Antoinette (1755 – 1842). Catalogue by H. Pannier. Paris, 1908: 124, 251.

1915

Helm, William Henry. Vigée-Lebrun, 1755 – 1842: Her Life, Works and Friendships. London,n.d. [1915]: 125, 215, 219.

1919

Blum, André. Madame Vigée-Lebrun, peintre des grandes dames du xviii e siècle. Paris, 1919: 98, 105.

1965

Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 137.

1966

Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:326, color repro.

1966

Davidson, Ruth. “In the Museums:Paintings.” Antiques 89, no. 1 (Jan. 1966): 136, repro.

1966

D’Otrange Mastai, M.-L. “Vigée-Lebrun Group Portrait.” The Connoisseur 161 (1966): 277, repro.

1966

Gazette des Beaux-Arts 57 (1966): repro., cat. 222.

1966

“Recent Donations to Museums in U.S.A.” Apollo 83, no. 49 (March 1966): 235, repro.

1967

Bischoff, Ilse. “Vigée-Lebrun and the Women of the French Court.” Antiques 92, no. 5 (Nov. 1967): 711, repro., 712, fig. 10.

1968

“Accessions of American and Canadian Museums.” Art Quarterly 28 (August 1968): 8, repro.

1968

National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 124, repro.

1974

Tufts, Eleanor. Our Hidden Heritage: Five Centuries of Women Artists. New York, 1974: 132, repro., 133, fig. 71.

1975

European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 366, repro.

1975

Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 343, no. 466, color repro.

1981

Baillio, Joseph. “Le dossier d’une oeuvre d’actualité politique: Marie-Antoinette et ses enfants par Madame Vigée Le Brun.” L’Oeil 308 (March 1981) and 310 (May 1981): 59, 91 nn. 28 – 29, color repro., 57, fig. 8.

1982

Sutton, Denys. “Madame Vigée Le Brun: A Survivor of the Ancien Régime.” Apollo 116, no. 245 (July 1982): 30, color repro., 27, pl. 7.

1982

Tufts, Eleanor. “Vigée Le Brun.” Art Journal 42, no. 4 (Winter 1982): 338.

1984

Walker, John. "National Gallery of Art, Washington." New York, 1984: 341, no. 463, color repro.

1984

Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 341, no. 463, color repro.

1985

European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 425, repro.

1986

Lesko, Diane. “Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun’s Julie Lebrun as Flora.” Pharos (1986 – 1987): 6, repro., fig. 6.

1986

Mittler, Gene A. Art in Focus. Peoria, Ill., 1986: 52, repro., fig. 3.11.

1986

Schama, Simon. “The Domestication of Majesty: Royal Family Portraiture, 1500 – 1850.” In Art and History: Images and Their Meaning. Ed. Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb. Cambridge, 1986: 177.

1989

Wasserstein, Wendy. “Portraits by a Lady.” Art & Antiques 6, no. 7 (Dec. 1989): 108 – 109, color repro.

1990

Gournay, Brigitte. “Maisons et hôtels appartenant a l’Hôpital des Incurables, 101 – 107 rue du Bac.” In Le Faubourg Saint-Germain, la rue du Bac, études offertes à Colette Lamy-Lassalle. Paris, 1990: 64, 73 n. 62, 228, no. 90, 142, color repro. (detail).

1992

Radisich, Paula Rea. “Que peut définir les femmes?: Vigée-Lebrun’s Portraits of an Artist.” 18th Century Studies 25 (Summer 1992): 446 n. 13, 451 n. 1, 452 n. 24, 447, repro., fig. 2.

1994

Bachmann, Donna G., and Sherry Piland. Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary and Feminist Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J., 1994: 138, repro., fig. 9.

1997

Mitchell, Jerrine E. "Picturing Sisters: 1790 Portraits by J.L. David." Eighteenth-Century Studies 31, no. 2 (Winter 1997-1998): 194, fig. 14.

2000

Kirsh, Andrea, and Rustin S. Levenson. Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies. Materials and Meaning in the Fine Arts 1. New Haven, 2000: 8, under fig. 2.

2004

Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 261, no. 213, color repro.

2004

National Gallery of Art. "National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection." Selected and with commentaries by John Oliver Hand. Washington, 2004: no. 213, color repro.

2005

Baillio, Joseph, et al. The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier. A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein's Presence in New York. Exh. cat. Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 2005: 61, fig. 67, 74 (not in the exhibition).

2006

Blanc, Olivier. Portraits de femmes artistes et modèles à l’époque de Marie-Antoinette. Paris, 2006: 21, 22, color repro.

2009

Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 93, 436-442, color repro.

2014

Aldecoa, Christiane de. "Élisabeth Louis Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755-1842) de l’Académie Royale de Paris, de Rouen, De Saint-Luc, de Rome et d’Arcadie, de Parme et de Bologne, de Saint-Pétersbourg, de Berlin, de Genève et Avignon Autoportrait, ou une vie pour la peinture." Les Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Art no. 12 (2014) : 52, 54, color fig. 4.

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