Vigee Le Brun ART Page 112

ART PAGE 112

	Marie Eugenie Rouillé-Ducoudreux - 1775 Oil on canvas, 72 x 59 mm Marie Eugenie Rouillé-Ducoudreux (d 2 Dec 1815). Married to Michael Felix Comte de Choiseul-Daillecourt (1759-1815). The portrait was sold on September 18, 2009, at the Hampel Fine Arts Auction, Munich, Germany.
	A Boy - 1801 Pastel on paper, 32.5 x 24 cm, 12-3/4 x 9-1/2 in This pastel was drawn in Dresden in 1801 where Vigee Le Brun stopped briefly during her trip from St. Petersburg to Paris.
	"Mme de Bonneuil" - 1773 pastel, 58 x 47 cm Signed and dated "Mlle Vigee 1773" Vigee Le Brun had called Mme de Bonneuil the "prettiest woman in Paris". Born Michelle Sentuary (March 1748) on Bourbon Island, now Reunion Island, East Africa. She married Jean-Cyrille Guesnon de Bonneuil in Bordeaux in January 1768. She was involved in espionage during the emigration. She died in Paris, December 1829. Vigee Le Brun also painted the sitter's sister, Mme Thilorier in 1773 (and 1778?), and her daughter, Laure de Bonneuil in 1805 (Art Page 41). She may have also painted the sitter's other sister, Mme Testart, as there is a listing in 1773 for a "Mme Tétare." Information courtesy of Olivier Blanc, a biographer of Mme de Bonneuil and her family.