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| Madame Élisabeth de France (1764–1794) |
Artist:Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (French, Paris 1749–1803 Paris)
Date:ca. 1787
Medium:Pastel on blue paper, seven sheets joined, laid down on canvas
Dimensions:Oval, 31 x 25 3/4 in. (78.7 x 65.4 cm.)
Classification:Pastels & Oil Sketches on Paper
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Frederick M. Stafford, 2007
With limited training as a miniaturist, Adélaïde Labille embarked upon a professional career before she was twenty. Early in the 1770s she learned pastel technique from Maurice Quentin de La Tour and studied oil painting with François André Vincent (1746–1816). Having been admitted to full membership in the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1783, she taught and promoted female artists. She was skilled at capturing the moods of her sitters, bringing their mobile expressions closely into view. In this study for a more formal portrait, she portrays the younger sister of Louis XVI, who eventually followed him to the guillotine. The simple costume of Madame Élisabeth (1764–1794) accords with her gentle manner.
Provenance
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Paris (until d. 1803); François-André Vincent, Paris (1803–d. 1816; his estate sale, Paris, October 17–19, 1816, no. 56, listed among pastels as "Celui de Madame Élisabeth," for Fr 200 to Capet); Marie Gabrielle Capet, Paris (1816–d. 1818; posthumous inv., November 14, 1818, as "Un portrait au pastel de Mme Élisabeth par Me Guiard sous verre et cadre doré, prisé 50 F"); Jacques Mayer (in 1909); [Madame Louis (Elisabeth Wildenstein) Paraf, Paris, by 1963]; [Galerie Pardo, Paris]; [William H. Schab Gallery, New York, until 1969; sold to Stafford]; Mrs. Frederick M. Stafford, New York and New Orleans (1969– 2007)
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