Young French Marquise in Exile in Lausanne

Jean-Baptiste Mallet1789

Details

Title: Young French Marquise in Exile in Lausanne
Creator: Jean-Baptiste Mallet
Date Created: 1789
Physical Dimensions: overall: 21.7 x 30 cm (8 9/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
Provenance: French private collection (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17 June 1931, no. 13 [as _les Réfugiés_]; to Jacques Seligmann; Mrs. R. Fitzwilliams (sale, London, Christie's, 8 December 1976, no. 112); (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York); Arthur Liebman [d. 1991], Lake Forest, IL; bequest to NGA, 1992. We seem to have lost an old label that was once attached to the back of the frame: "Jeune marquise française réfugiée à Lausanne avec ses deux fils pendant la Révolution de 1789."
Medium: gouache on wove paper

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