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ART PAGE 140

Young Woman - 1780-83
Oil on canvas, oval, 54.5 x 45.5 cm
Young Woman expressive figure study.
Previously attributed to Fragonard.
This portrait was displayed in the 2015 Paris Exhibition.
Presented as a new attribution.
The Spanish Concert - 1777
Oil on canvas, 82 x 101 cm (32.24 x 39.75 in)
Private Collection.
Angela Demutskiy provided information about this painting. This painting was first sold on 11 Nov 1778. Dealer: Dufresne with Jean Baptiste Pierre Le Brun as the expert. It sold for 720 livres, the seller was Marie-Louise-Antoinette de Wignacourt, Marquise de Cossé-Brissac, buyer: Louis-Francois, Métra. It is presented in Vigée Le Brun's painting list as "1 Spanish Scene". Description: A Spanish concert. We see in the middle of the painting, and on a yellow sofa, a lady dressed in white satin, eyes fixed on a music book. Behind her is a man standing pinching the guitar that seems to accompany it. In the right corner, appears a girl half hidden by a curtain, which looks at them. On the same side is a table covered with a Turkish carpet; the other the toilette, curtains hiding a casement. This painting is the only of its kind that the artist did. This portrait was displayed in the 2015 Paris Exhibition. Presented as a new attribution.
Pierre Louis Dubus - 1776
Oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm
Paris Musée de la Comédie Francaise
The Actor Pierre Louis Dubus, lmown as Preville in the role of "Mascarille". Previously attributed to Carle van Loo. This portrait was displayed in the 2015 Paris Exhibition. Presented as a new attribution.

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