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| Keywords: Countess Siemontkowsky Bystry by Vigee le Brun.jpg no such noble family in Poland Signed and dated lower left 'LE Vigee Le Brun / a Vienne 1793' In 1789 after fleeing France following the Parisian mobs march on Versailles Vigée Le Brun set out for Italy on what would turn out to be twelve years of exile from France There Count Wilczek the Austrian ambassador to Milan suggested she move to Vienna Upon her arrival in 1792 she was warmly received in aristocratic circles and she quickly received numerous commissions from distinguished Polish and Austrian nobles This portrait of Countess Bystry is a wonderful example of the portraits she produced in Vienna Provenance Count Siemontowski Chateau de Koustyn Valonie Russia; Baron Thomitz Paris ™ Newhouse Galleries New York;Private collection New York by 1977 Literature Memoirs of Madame Vigee Lebrun 1903 p 223; W H Helm Vigee Lebrun Her Life Works and Friendships London 1915 p 120 and Appendix; J Mycielski and S Wasylewski Potrety Elzbiety Vigee-Lebrun 1755-1842 Lwów 1927 ill Exhibition New York Ehrich Galleries January 1915 1793 Oil on canvas cm 81 62 http //www tefaf com/DesktopDefault aspx tabid 13 tabindex 12 highlightid 42743 categoryid 37 other versions husband's portraithttp //www sothebys com/ru/auctions/ecatalogue/lot 237 html/2013/old-master-british-paintings-day-sale-l13034 PD-old-100 Portrait paintings by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Polish nobility Art works shown at TEFAF 2014 1793 oil on canvas paintings Portrait 1793 portrait paintings from France 18th-century oil portraits of women at half length 1793 Portraits with flower head wreath 1793 Red clothing in art female 1793 | ||||
