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Vigée Le Brun's paintings can be found in over 100 museums in 20 countries. This is an updated list of Museums with Vigée Le Brun's paintings. The original list appeared in the Kimbell Art Museum's 1982 exhibition Vigée Le Brun catalogue. The list has been updated. Corrections and updates are welcome.
UNITED STATES
Arizona
Phoenix Art Museum:
1791 Madame
Victoire de France
University of Arizona
Museum of Art, Tucson:
1793 Countess von
Schönfeld and Her Daughter
Connecticut
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1787 Yolande Gabrielle Martine, Duchess of Polignac, (Art Page 54)
California
Apollo Fine Arts Museum :
1793
Countess Kagenek as
Flora
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los
Angeles:
1785
Victoire Pauline de Riquet
de Caraman, Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil
Norton Simon Museum,
Pasadena:
1793
Theresa, Countess Kinsky
California Palace of
Legion of Honor, San Francisco :
????
Copy
after vlb of 1785 "Bacchante"
[Original at Musée
Nissim de Camondo, Paris]
1791
Hyacinthe Gabrielle
Rolande (Countess of Mornington, afterwards marchioness of
Wellesley)"
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art
Gallery, San marino, California:
???? Copy after vlb, of "princess Pélagie Potocka,"
attributed to Auguste Louis
Jean-Baptiste Rivière.
District of Columbia
National Gallery of Art,
Washington:
1787
marquise de Pezay, marquise de
Rougé and her Sons (Caroline de Murat, and
Nathalie-Victorienne de Mortemart, with
her sons Alexis-Bonabes and Adrien de Rougé)
1789
Portrait of a Lady (marquise
de Fresnes dAguesseau?)
Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington:
1782
Mme Du Barry [Perhaps
in the process of being sold]
???? "Aniela Angélique Czartoriski, née
Radziwill" [The museum refuses to answer
enquiries as to whether they still own
this painting.]
National Museum of Women in the
Arts:
1798
Princess Anna
Grigorievna Belosselsky-Belozersky, née Kositzky
1801? Sketchbook with 38
Portrait Drawings of Women and Children of the Russian Court
1817
Portrait of a Young
Boy
Florida
Museum of Fine Arts, St.
Petersburg:
ca. 1799
Julie Le Brun as
Flora
Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of
Art:
1776
Prince of Nassau
Indiana University
Art Museum:
1803 Mrs.
William (margaret) Chinnery, née Tresilian
Snite Museum of Art,
Notre Dame University, South Bend:
1786
marguerite Baudard de Saint
James, marquise de Puységur, dressed as milkmaid
Louisiana
New Orleans Museum of Art:
ca. 1788
Queen marie Antoinette
("en robe de velours bleu")
Maryland
Baltimore Museum of Art:
1796
Princess Anna Alexandrovna
Galitzin, née Princess Grudzinsk (Mme. de Litzine during
her first marriage.)
Massachusetts
Boston Museum of Fine Arts:
ca. 1772
Standing Woman Holding a Sheet
of Music (The Artists Mother?)
1797
Portrait of a Woman (Countess
Vorontzov?)
Sterling & Francine Clark
Art Institute, Williamstown:
1785
Bacchante
Minnesota
Minneapolis Institute of
Arts:
1793
Countess maria Theresia Bucquoi,
née Paar
Missouri
St. Louis Art Museum:
1769?
Etienne Vigée, the
Artists Brother
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas
City:
1784
marie-Gabrielle de Gramont,
Duchesse de Caderousse
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
City:
Visit Vigée Le Brun at the MET
1783madame Catherine-Noële
Worlée Grand, later Princess de Talleyrand-Périgord
1787 Alexandre
Charles Emmanuel dUzès, the Bailli de Crussol-Florensac
1789
Comtesse de La
Châtre
Pierpont Morgan
Library:
1800? Self
portrait
North Carolina
North Carolina Museum of Art,
Raleigh:
1793?
Portrait of a young
girl
1795-97
Ivan Ivanovitch
Chouvaloff
Ohio
Cincinnati Art
Museum:
1793? Portrait of a Young Woman Playing the Lyre"
[This seems to be a signature copy of
Sophia Fries, the Future
Countess Haugwitz, playing a lyre as Sappho, which is
located at the National Castle Museum
of Jaromerice, Czech Republic. Baillio suggested
that the sitter wasn't Sophia Fries, though
his reason is unknown to us.]
Columbus Museum of
Art:
1800
Varvara Ivanovna Ladomirsky,
later Narychkin
Toledo Museum of Art:
1784
Lady Folding a Letter
(? The Comtesse de Cérès)
1792?
Isabella marini
Texas
Kimbell Art Museum, Ft.
Worth:
1781-82
Self Portrait" (aux rubans
cerise)
Utah
Utah Museum of Fine
Arts:
1799
Princess Eudocia Ivanovna
Galitzine, née Izmailov (as Flora)
1797
Elizabeth Vladimirovna,
Countess Chouvaloff
Virginia
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond:
1784
The Comte de Vaudreuil
PUERTO RICO
Museo de Arte de
Ponce:
1785?
Comtesse de Chastenay
AUSTRIA
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna:
1778
marie Antoinette, (wearing
white satin
????
Countess Urbana as Flora
Belvedere, Vienna:
1815
Lady in Napoleonic
Dress
BELGIUM
Musées Communaux, Verviers:
???? "Self portrait"
CZECH REPUBLIC
National Castle Museum of Jaromerice:
1793? "?
Sophia Fries, the Future
Countess Haugwitz, playing a lyre as Sappho ?" [A copy is
in the Cincinnati Art Museum, and they
have retitled it to "portrait of a Young Woman
Playing a Lyre," after Baillio gave his
opinion that the sitter wasn't Sophia Fries.]
ENGLAND
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University
of Birmingham:
1797-1800
Countess Varvara Nikolaevna
Golovin, née Princess Galitzine
Brighton Art Gallery:
???? "Self-portrait"
National
Trust, Waddesdon manor, Buckinghamshire:
1783?
Yolande Gabrielle martine
de Polastron, Duchesse de Polignac
National
Trust, Polesden Lacey, Dorking, Surrey:
Anonymous copy of 1769? "Etienne Vigee, the Artists
Brother" [Original is in
St. Louis
Art Museum.]
National
Trust, Ickworth, Suffolk:
1790 Self
Portrait
1791
Frederick Augustus Hervey,
4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry
National
Trust, Sevenoaks, Knole, Kent:
1803
Arabella Diana, Duchess
of Dorset
Heinz Archive and Library, National Portrait
Gallery, London:
Jean
Baptiste Pierre Le Brun [Miniature; perhaps after vlb, though she
never
mentions painting her husband.]
National Gallery,
London:
1782 Self
Portrait (with straw hat)
1788
Alexandrine Emilie
Brongniart
Wallace Collection,
London:
1786 Le
Petit dEspagnac
1789
madame Adélaïde
Perrégaux
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port
Sunlight:
1790-91
Emma Hamilton as
Bacchante
Windsor Castle Royal
Collection:
1784?
Charles Alexandre de
Calonne [Sometimes on loan to other museums.]
SCOTLAND
Fyvie Castle,
Aberdeenshire:
1783-86?
Self Portrait
FRANCE
Musée des Beaux-Arts,
Alençon:
"La Princess de Polignac"
Collection Comte de Paris, Fondation Saint Louis, Château
dAmboise:
1789
Louise marie
Adélaïde de Penthièvre, The Duchesse
dOrléans
Musée dAngers:
1779
Innocence Taking Refuge
in the Arms of Justice
Musée des Beaux-Arts,
Bordeaux:
"Hebe"
Collection of the marquis de Moustier, Château de Bournel:
Half-length studio copy of 1788 "Queen marie Antoinette
("en robe de velours bleu")"
[Original at Musée
National du Château de Versailles.]
Brissac collection,
Château de Brissac:
1778
Louis-Hercule Timoleon de
Cossé, duc de Brissac
Musée
des Beaux-Arts, Caen:
1775 "portrait of a young girl"
Chambéry, Musée Savoisien:
1808 Le
Mont-Blanc
Condé
Chantilly:
copy of 1790
"maria Theresa, later Empress of Austria" [Original is at Museo e Gallerie
Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples.]
copy
of 1790 maria Luisa Amelie, later Grand Duchesse of Tuscany" [Original
is at
Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte,
Naples.]
copy of 1790
maria Carolina, Queen of
Naples [The original was lost in a fire. Signature copies are at the Museo del Prado and Condé
Chantilly. It is uncertain which copy is represented by
this particular image.]
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chartres:
"La comtesse du Cluzel"
marquis de la Guiche, Château de Chaumont:
1783 "marquise de la Guiche as a Milkmaid"
Musée Jeanne dAboville, La Fére:
1791
madame
Adélaïde de France
Musée Fragonard, Grasse:
Mme
de Castellane
Musée
des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre:
"A woman"
Museum of Louveciennes:
1821 "Saint Geneviève"
Musée de Longchamp, marseilles:
Copy after vlb is on deposit from Musée National
du Château de Versailles, of 1789
"Louise marie Adélaïde de
Penthièvre, The Duchesse dOrléans"
[Original is
owned by Collection Comte de Paris, Fondation
Saint Louis, Château dAmboise.]
Musée Fabre, Montpellier:
1795-1801?
Grand Duchess Elisaveta Alexeevna,
later Empress of Russia (Consort of
Alexander I). [Original is in the Collection
of the Princess of Hesse Darmstadt, Castle of
Wolfsgarten.]
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans:
1780 Mme
Lesould
Collection marquis de Lastic,
Château de Parentignat:
1786
Louis-Charles, duc de
Normandie
1786
Sophie-Hélène-Béatrix
de France, asleep in her cradle
Galerie Cailleux, Paris [Commercial gallery; are these works still
there?]:
ca. 1772 The
Children of the Baronne DEsthal
1778 My
head
Musée
Carnavalet, Paris:
1784-85
Nicolas Beaujon
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris:
1774
marie-Louise-Adélaïde-Jacquette
de Robien
1783-85
Portrait of a
Dancer
???? Femme
en haute coiffe d'organdie
Hôtel Drouot, Paris:
(Auction house; is this work in their permanent collection?)
1780 "Venus Binding the Wings of Cupid"
Musée
Jacquemart-André, Paris:
1790
Countess Ecaterina Vassilievna
Skavronskaya, née Engelhardt
Musée de Louvre,
Paris:
1778
Joseph Vernet
1780 Peace
Bringing Back Abundance
1785
Girl Crowned with
Roses
1786 madame
Molé-Raymond
1786
Self-Portrait with her Daughter
(maternal tenderness)
1788 The
Artist Hubert Robert
1789 Self
Portrait with Daughter (à la Grecque)
1789 Dauphin
Louis Charles playing with a yo-yo [emigrette] [Attributed to vlb]
1789? Mme
Pierre Rousseau with her Daughter
1793? Count
Moriz Fries
1796
Countess Ecaterina
Vassilievna Skavronskaya, née Engelhardt
???? A
girl
Musée Nissim
de Camondo, Paris:
1785
Bacchante
1788
Mme Geneviève
Sophie Le Coulteux du Molay
Musee des Beaux Arts, Rouen:
1805
Giuseppina Grassini in the
role of Zaïra
Musée Municipal, Saint-Germain-en-Laye:
1780 "madame de Saint Hubert"
Comte
Jean-François de Roussy de Sales, Château de Thorens,
Thorens-Glieres:
1787-88
marquise de Grollier
Musée
des Augustins, Toulouse:
1785
Baronne de Crussol
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Troyes:
1830
Comtesse de Bossencourt
Musée National du
Château de Versailles:
1775 Jean
de La Bruyère
1775 "André Cardinal de Fleury"
copy of 1778 "marie Antoinette (wearing white satin "robe
à
paniers")"[Original
is in
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.]
1779
Alexandre marie Leonor
de Saint-mauris, prince de Montbarrey
1782
madame Elisabeth of
France
1782
madame Elisabeth of
France [unsure if this is at Versailles]
????
madame Elisabeth
1783
marie Antoinette, ("à
la rose")
???? marie
Antoinette
1784 madame
Royale and the Dauphin Louis Joseph
1785
Antoinette-Elisabeth-marie
dAguesseau, Comtesse de Ségur
1785 "charles-Louis-Philippe de Ségur"
1785
André-Ernest-Modeste
Grétry
1787 Queen
marie Antoinette and Her Children
1788 Queen
marie Antoinette ("en robe de velours bleu")
ca. 1788 "Queen marie Antoinette ("en robe de velours
bleu")," drawing
copy after vlb of 1789 "Louise marie Adélaïde
de Penthièvre, The Duchesse dOrléans"
[Original is owned by
Collection Comte de Paris, Fondation Saint Louis, Château
dAmboise.]
1789
Philippe Henri, marquis
de Ségur
1789? "Baron de Breteuil"
copy (by vlb?, or anonymous?) of 1791 "madame
Adélaïde de France"
[Original is at
Musée Jeanne dAboville, La
Fére.]
1791
Giovanni Paisiello
1797
Stanislaus II Augustus
Poniatowski, King of Poland
1806
Caroline Murat with her
daughter, Letizia
1807 "marie Caroline, Queen of Naples," Versailles. [Perhaps
this is a copy of vlbs
portrait of 1791, which was destroyed
by fire. Small oil on panel copies exist at
Museo del Prado, madrid, and
Condé Chantilly,
France.]
Musee Lauibinet, Versailles:
Copy
by Eugénie Tripier Le Franc of vlbs 1789-1820 "Mme Du Barry."
[Original is in
a private collection.]
GERMANY
Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin:
1786 Comtesse
de Sabran et Pontevès
1801 Louise
Agusta von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin:
1788
The Young Prince Lubomirski
as the Genius of Fame
Kurpfalzisches Museum, Heidelberg:
"A woman"
Collection Princesse de Hesse-Darmstadt, Château de
Wolfsgarten:
1783 marie
Antoinette, ("en gaulle")
1795-1801? "Grand Duchess Elisaveta Alexeevna, later
Empress of Russia, consort of
Alexander I"
Collection of the Prince of Hesse and the Rhine:
1783 "marie Antoinette"
HUNGARY
Budapest:
Esterhazy-Plettenberg
Grofine Arcképe [Not listed or mentioned by vlb. Perhaps in
a museum in Budapest.]
ITALY
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna:
1789 Julie
Le Brun, looking over her shoulder
Uffizi, Florence:
1790 Self
Portrait (painting marie Antoinette)
Museo e Gallerie
Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples:
1790 "maria Theresa, later Empress of Austria"
1790 maria Luisa Amelie, later Grand Duchesse
of Tuscany"
1790
Francesco di Borbone, later
King of the Two Sicilies
(color detail)
1790 maria
Cristina, future Queen of Sardinia
???? "marie-Clementina of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies"
Museo Storico Musicale, Naples:
"domenico Cimarosa"
Palazzo Reale, Naples:
"marie-Clementina of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies"
[Attributed.]
Galleria Nazionale, Parma:
1792
Julie Le Brun, wearing
a wreath of roses
Academy of St. Luke,
Rome:
1789-90
Self Portrait
Galleria Sabauda, Turin:
1792 Daughter
of Engraver Porporati
LIECHTENSTEIN
Possession of Fursten Liechtenstein (location uncertain):
1793
Princess maria Josefa
Hermenegilde von Esterhazy of Liechtenstein, as Ariadne
NETHERLANDS
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam:
1793-94
Yolande Gabrielle martine,
Duchess of Polignac
POLAND
Musée
au Palais de Nieborów:
1802
Helena Czartoryska, née
Radziwill
National Museum,
Wroclaw:
Copy after vlb of 1791 "Anna, Comtesse Potocka"
[Original is in a private
collection.]
National Museum,
Warsaw:
Copy after vlb of 1793 "prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski"
[Original is in a
private
collection.]
1808
Countess Wincentowa
Potocka
???? "A woman"
ROMANIA
National Museum of Art,
Bucharest:
1772 ?
Mme dAguesseau ?
RUSSIA
Pushkin Museum,
Moscow:
1793-95
Naiads [A
study for Amphion Playing
the Lyre, which is in a private collection
in France.]
1796
Princess Alexandra Petrovna
Galitzine, née Protassov, with her nephew
1798
Countess Sofia Vladimirovna
Stroganov, née Princess Galitzine
1801?
Serene Princess Ecaterina
Iljinishna Koutousov-Smolensky, née Countess Bibikov
1806
Lady with Lyre
Hermitage, St.
Petersburg:
1788
Young Prince
Lubomirski
1793
Baron and later Count
Grigory Alexandrovich Stroganov
1793
Count Grigory Ivanovich
Chernyshev Holding a mask
1795-97
Grand Duchess Alexandra
Pavlovna, and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna
(Daughters of Paul I)
1796 "Grand Duchess Elisaveta Alexeevna, later Empress
of Russia, consort of Alexander I"
(full length, arranging flowers in a
basket)
1796-97
Countess Anna Sergeevna
Stroganova and Her Son
1797
Countess Ecaterina Sergeevna
Somoilov, née Princess Troubetzkoy
1797 Prince
Alexander Borissovich Kourakin
1800
Self-portrait
1800 "Empress maria Fedorovna, consort of Paul I" [In
storage for decades.]
???? "Allegory of the Genius of Alexander"
UKRAINE
Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Kiev:
1797
Stanislaus II Augustus
Poniatowski, King of Poland
SLOVENIA
National Gallery, Ljubljana:
1797?
Elisabeth
Isabella Mniszech holding a dog
SPAIN
Francesc Cambó
collection, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona:
1788-90
Portrait of a girl
[Baillio doesnt believe this is by vlb.]
Museo del Prado, madrid:
1791
maria Carolina, Queen of
Naples [The original was lost in a fire. Signature copies
are at Museo del Prado and
Condé Chantilly. It is uncertain which copy is represented
by this particular image.]
SWEDEN
National Museum,
Stockholm:
1811-14
Flora
1781 Ernestine Frederique, Princess de Croy
SWITZERLAND
Kunstmuseum, Bern:
Autograph copy of 1796 "countess Ecaterina Vassilievna
Skavronskaya, née
Engelhardt" [Original is at Musée
de Louvre, Paris.]
1808-09
Das Alphirtenfest in
Unspunnen
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Geneva:
1808-09
Mme de Staël as
Corinne
Fondation Tatiana Zuboff, Geneva:
1798? Julie
Le Brun Playing a Guitar
Kunstmuseum,
Lucerne:
1789
Melanie de Rochechoüart,
marquise dAumont, La duchesse de Piennes
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