Young French Marquise in Exile in Lausanne

1789

Jean-Baptiste Mallet

Associated Names
Jean-Baptiste Mallet

Artist, French, 1759 - 1835

The image shows three people and a dog within a domestic scene. The first person is a woman holding a child, who is playing with a dog. To the right, another woman is standing. A young boy is kneeling in the foreground, looking into a vessel emitting smoke. The background shows a rustic attic setting with wooden beams, curtains, a messy table, a hat on the floor, and a quilt-covered bed in the corner. Light from a window on the left casts a soft glow over the scene.

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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 Number

    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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