
Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil (Primary Title)
Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, French, 1755 - 1842 (Artist)
to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond in March of 1949. [3]
[1] This information is found in French Painting 1774-1830, the Age of Revolution (Detroit: distributed by Wayne State University Press, 1975), pp. 666-667. This was an exhibition which traveled to: Grand Palais, Paris, Detroit Institute of Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this catalogue, it states that the painting was bought for 11,200 francs by Gardner at the 1900 Hôtel Drouot sale. More research is needed to confirm who exactly bought the painting and where it was from 1900 until 1948. See also Masters in art: Volume 6. : a series of illustrated monographs (Boston : Bates & Guild Co., 1905), Plate 3, p. 30. In this book, the painting is described as being “in a private collection in Paris.”
[2] Letter from Clyde Newhouse dated January 22, 1965 listing the Williams’ date of purchase of the painting as October 29, 1948. Copy in curatorial file, VMFA.
[3] Acquisition date in Registration and Curatorial files, VMFA.
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