Lot Details
Lot 43
After Louis-Auguste Brun, called Brun de Versoix
Mme. Marie de Lessert on Horseback
Oil on canvas
29 1/4 x 37 inches (44.4 x 94 cm)
Provenance:
Said to have belonged to M. René de Lessert, Chateau de Vincy, Rolle (Vaud, Switzerland)
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Audibert, New York
Mr. and Mrs. John Howell Greenwich CT
[Sale] William Doyle Galleries, Inc., New York, January 11, 1978, lot 285
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature:
Daisy Agassiz, Louis Auguste Brun, 1758-1815: un peintre suisse à la Cour de Louis XVI (Lausanne Editions, R. Freudweiler-Spiro, Vaudois, 1931), pp. 8-9; illus. between pp. 6 and 7 (the original paintings)
Joseph Raymond Fournier-Sarlovèze, Louis Auguste Brun: peintre de Marie-Antoinette (Paris, 1911), pp. 85-88 (discussion of the original paintings)
Engraving:
By Robin de Montigny of the original painting, ca. 1785
C
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