ELISABETH-LOUISE VIGÉE LE BRUN (PARIS 1755-1842) Portrait of the artist'...

ELISABETH-LOUISE VIGÉE LE BRUN (PARIS 1755-1842)
Portrait of the artist's daughter, Jeanne-Julie-Louise Le Brun (1780-1819), playing a guitar
oil on canvas
39 ½ x 32 5⁄8 in. (100.4 x 83 cm.)

Provenance
(Probably) the painting listed in the 1842 inventory of the artist's estate, and by descent to her niece,
Caroline Vigée de Rivière (1791-1864), Versailles.
Anonymous sale, Hotel Drouot, 10 March 1864, lot 1.
(Probably) Prince Sigmond Radziwilłł (1822-1892), Chateau d'Ermenonville; his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 22 March 1866, lot 145 (1900 francs).
Arthur Veil-Picard (1854-1944), Paris,
Confiscated from the above following the Nazi occupation of France after May 1940 (ERR no. W.-P. 120),
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives section from the Altaussee salt mines and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 341⁄2).
Repatriated to France on 25 June 1946 and restituted on 11 October 1946.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 7 June 1955, lot 107.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 15-16 December 1958, lot 82.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, by July 1959, where acquire by,
Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kimbell, Fort Worth, TX, and by whom gifted in 1965 to,
The Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth, TX, and by which sold,
[Property of the Kimbell Art Foundation]; Sotheby's, New York, 15 January 1987, lot 108.
[The Property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, New York, 18 May 1994, lot 14, where acquired by the present owner.