Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755-1842), Portrait of the artist, bust-length

Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755-1842)
Portrait of the artist, bust-length
signed and dated 'L.E. Vigée Le Brun / à Vienne 1794' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 3/8 x 20 ½ in. (64.3 x 52 cm.)

Provenance
(Possibly) Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711-1794), Vienna.
Albert Henry Wiggin (1868-1951), Boston and New York, by 1926, and by descent in 1951 to his daughter
Muriel Wiggin Seldon (b. 1897) and her husband Lynde Selden (1891-1972), Greenwich, Connecticut.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 15 June 1977, lot 73.
with Wildenstein & Co., New York, from whom acquired by the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION

Exhibited
Tokyo, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Créer au féminin: Femmes artistes du siècle de Madame Vigée Le Brun, 1 March-8 May 2011, no. 74.