Beschreibung:

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755-1842) Portrait of Madame du Barry (1743-1793), three-quarter-length, seated in a landscape oil on canvas 51 3/8 x 38 ½ in. (130.4 x 97.8 cm.) Provenance The sitter, by whom commissioned at the old Château de Louveciennes in summer 1789, but left unfinished and presumably entrusted to Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé (1734-1792), Duc de Brissac, and perhaps retrieved at his residence with other portraits of Madame Du Barry in September 1793 by Louis Antoine Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (1733-1807), later 6th Duc de Rohan, and by whom passed to Louis Marie Jacques Amalric, comte de Narbonne-Lara (1755-1813), and by whom restored in 1802 to The artist, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), Hôtel Le Brun, rue du Gros-Chenet, Paris, where described in her estate inventory as 'Un Portrait de Made. Dubarri à mi jambe en costume de fete & tenant une fleur assise au milieu d'un Parterre dans son cadre de Bois doré', and by inheritance to her niece Caroline Vigée (1791-1864) and her husband Jean-Nicolas-Louis-de Rivière (1778-1861), Paris and Versailles, and by whom presumably sold circa 1845 to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), Prince de Bénévent (1754-1838), Château de Valençay, Valençay; (†) his sale, Hôtel des Ventes Mobilières, Paris, 9-10 March 1847, lot 69, where presumably acquired by Justin Tripier Le Franc (1805-1883) and his wife Françoise-Élisabeth ('Eugénie') Le Brun (1797-1872), Paris and Passy; (†) his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 5-7 June 1883, lot 5. A Prince of Hohenlohe, possibly Chlodwig Carl Viktor (1819-1901), Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince of Ratibor and Corvey. with Eugène Kraemer, Paris, from whom acquired for 150,000 francs on 18 January 1911 by Eugène-Charles-Joachim Fould (1876-1929), Baron Fould-Springer and his wife Maria Cécilia von Springer (1886-1978), Paris, and by descent to their daughter Baroness Elie de Rothschild (née Liliane Fould-Springer; 1916-2003), Paris, and by descent to the present owners.