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Vigee Le Brun's newly conserved portrait of Mme Perregaux in the Wallace Collection

04/2004 | 1213 | 146

Pages: 224-233

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Author:

Hedley, Jo (Hedley, Jo)

Subjects

artists:

Vigée-LeBrun, Elisabeth Louise

dates:

1750-1799

museums and institutions:

Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain

places:

France

print:

Vigée-LeBrun, Elisabeth Louise

subjects:

Perregaux, Adelaide, 1758-1794

subjects:

French painting / Portraits / Conservation

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Mme Perregaux, by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun. 1789. Panel, 99.6 by 78.3 cm. Before cleaning and conservation. (The Wallace Collection).

Attributed works:

10. Portrait of Susanna Lunden(?) ('Le Chapeau de paille'), by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1622-25. Panel, 79 by 54.6 cm. (National Gallery, London).

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11. Mme Perregaux, formerly attributed to Claude Bornet. 1780. Pastel. (In 1919 in the Abbaye de Fontaine-André).

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12. Marie-Madeleine Guimard, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. c.1769. 82 by 65 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

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13. Detail of signature on Fig.2

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2. Fig.1, after cleaning and conservation.

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3. Mme Vigee Le Brun, by Jacques Thouron, after a self-portrait (1782) by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun. Enamel on metal, 6.7 cm. diam. (The Wallace Collection).

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4. Fig. 2 in raking light, showing differing directions of wood-grain in four adjoined panels.

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5. Fig. 1, during cleaning.

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6. Fig. 1, after cleaning, before restoration, detail of damage due to knot of wood after structural work and during continuing treatment.

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7. Fig.1, after cleaning, before restoration; detail of infilled split running through hand.

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8. Fig.1, after cleaning, before restoration, detail showing protrusions in paint.

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9. Fig.2, detail of face.

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