Vigée Le Brun's Home Page | Index to Art Pages | Vigée Le Brun's Gallery ART PAGE 102 Children of Baron D'Esthal - 1768-72 oil on canvas, oval 28-1/4 x 23-1/8 in Olivier Blanc provides a good argument that the painting was done ca. 1768-69, and believes these to be the children of the baronne d'Estat, by the prosecutor Omer Louis François Joly De Fleury: Michel-Angélique d'Estat dit Bellecour, Baron d'Estat, born about 1762, and his sister Denise d'Estat born in 1764, future baronne Gothereau De Billens. Both died at the guillotine in 1794. Or the girl may have been another sister, Agathe Louise Marie de La Ferté, born circa January 1767, who Vigee Le Brun painted in 1779. View a more detailed black and white version of this painting. Reference Kimbell Exhibition Catalog Number 3 for more details. Son of J.B. Le Moyne, the sculptor - 1772 pastel, 50 x 45 cm Radishchev State Art Museum, Saratov, Russia Vigee Le Brun was a friend of the sculptor, J. B. Le Moyne (Art Page 78). She didn't list this portrait of his son. The boy was probably Le Moyne's younger son, Pierre-Hippolyte Le Moyne (1748-1828). Count Ivan Ivanovich Shouvaloff - 1775 oil on copper, 8.25 x 26.25 in (21.1 x 19.4 cm) Signed and dated lower left "Mlle Vigée 1775". Vigée Le Brun completed two other small paintings on copper in the early years of her career. This sitter was previously identified as Prince Viazemski, Catherine the Great's Attorney General. Joseph Baillio recently identified the sitter (2016) as Count Shouvaloff. He was painted twice by Vigée Le Brun. Count Shouvaloff (1727-1797) was one of Vigee Le Brun's first distinguished patrons, whose support helped to bring her other influential clients from Parisian society. He was one of the most outstanding men of his time. Shuvaloff was Grand Chamberlain to Empress Elisabeth II of Russia and also her lover, according to the artist's memoirs. He was the founder of Moscow University and the Moscow Academy of Art. Vigee Le Brun, who was twenty when she first painted him, later described his character in flattering terms: "He united the most thoughtful courtesy with a perfect manner, and since he was the most excellent of men, his presence was sought by the best company. Vigée Le Brun's1795 portrait of this sitter is located on Art Page 16. Reference Kimbell Exhibition Catalog Number 42 for more details on the sitter. Vigée Le Brun's Home Page | Index to Art Pages | Vigée Le Brun's Gallery