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Painted just after she fled revolutionary Paris with her daughter in 1789, this self-portrait by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun can be counted as one of, if not, the finest and most important pastels in her oeuvre.

Vigée’s proximity to members of Marie Antoinette’s close circle made her at one moment the quasi-official painter of the Ancien Régime and in the next breath a target.

Executed in pastel on gray paper the artist portrays herself looking all of twenty – she was in fact thirty-four years old at the time she drew it – as she dons the simple clothing of a traveler in the form of a dress with a wide collar and short cape, whilst her curly chestnut hair is bound into a muslin kerchief knotted at the top. Gone are the vestiges of extravagance or whimsy, traits which came to define her work as well as the era that was swept away by the Revolution.

The appearance of this exquisite and exceptional work, offered at auction for the first time in over four decades from the collection of the preeminent scholar Joseph Baillio, is a market-defining moment for a work on paper by Vigée Le Brun. Discover more in our link in bio before the dedicated auction on 31 January 2024 at #SothebysNewYork. #SothebysOldMasters #VigeeLeBrun

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