Estimate

8.000 - 12.000

Session 1

20 March 2023

Hammer Price

Description

Pastel on paper applied onto canvas
Signed and with trace of date "17.."

82,5x68 cm

Category

Paintings

Additional Information

Note:
Inscriptions on the reverse : « collection A LENOIR / portrait de Mme Lorrain / Mr Lorrain était Dr du musée de / St Petersbourg. Signé L Vigee / (Père de Mme Vigee Lebrun) 1761 ».

Madame LE LORRAIN, wife of Louis-Joseph LE LORRAIN (Paris 1715 - Saint-Petersburg 1759) French painter, engraver, decorator and architect, designer of the elements of the furniture of the famous "Greek-style cabinet" (1756 - 1758) of the Lalive de July private mansion, then "First painter of the Empress of all the Russias, Director of her Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in Saint-Petersburg", of which he was the founder.


Alexandre LENOIR (1762-1839) collector, founder and curator of the Museum of French Monuments (Musée des Monuments Français) in 1795.