Vigee Le Brun ART Page 142

ART PAGE 142

	Alexandre Jean Baptiste Rouillé de Fontaine - 1775 oil on canvas (64.9 x 53.5 cm) Private collection, Paris The sitter was general quartermaster of cavalry, seigneur de Goyencourt. He was the son of Michele Rouillé de Fontaine and Angelique Elizabeth Sezille. On 2 December 1772, he married Claude Sophie Caulet d'Hauteville (born 1753). Their son was Basile Gabriel Michel Rouillé de Fontaine, seigneur de Goyencourt. Listed as a 1773 portrait in Vigée Le Brun's painting list.
	Claude Sophie Rouillé de Fontaine - 1776 oil on canvas (64.9 x 53.5 cm) Private collection, Paris The sitter (1753- ), was the daughter of Pierre Nicolas Caulet d'Hauteville and Gabrielle des Paillet. On 2 December 1772, she married Alexander Jean Baptiste Rouillé de Fontaine. Their son was Basile Gabriel Michel Rouillé de Fontaine, seigneur de Goyencourt.
	Danae oil on canvas, 39 3/4 x 24 3/8 in, (101 x 62 cm) Private Collection Danae, after Titian. Presented in the French catalog of the 2015 Vigée Le Brun Exhibition. The curator and catalog authors believe that Vigée Le Brun's husband had one of Titian's paintings and that she may have prepared this copy of it. Titian completed a series of Dana paintings between 1540 and 1570. View the Prado painting.