A Promising Portrait by Vigée Le Brun

Published on 31 August 2022, by Caroline Legrand

Auction on 04 September 2022 - 14:00 (CEST) - 21, avenue Pierre-Larousse - 89000 Auxerre

All of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun's budding talent shows through in this 1774 portrait of the Lord of La Grange-aux-Bois.

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1845), Portrait de Monsieur Jean-Baptiste Coulon,... A Promising Portrait by Vigée Le Brun

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1845), Portrait de Monsieur Jean-Baptiste Coulon, seigneur de la Grange-aux-Bois (1731-1808), pastel on paper glued to oval canvas, 59.5 x 46 cm/23.42 x 18.11 in.
Estimate: €10,000/15,000

At the time, the young woman still signed her name "Mlle Vigée". Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was only 19 years old and not yet married. Two years later, in 1776, she wed Jean-Baptiste Pierre…

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