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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

A Fashionable Noblewoman Wearing a Plumed Hat, c. 1789

Not on View

Medium

pastel on blue laid paper mounted on canvas (on strainer/stretcher)

Dimensions

overall (oval): 55 x 46 cm (21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Passez 1973, no. 89

Accession Number

1999.92.1

Artists / Makers

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (artist) French, 1749 - 1803

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Provenance

Mme. Guiraud, by 1902(?) (Lugt undescribed). Richard Thalmann, by 1926 (Lugt undescribed).[1] Private Collection, France, until 1999; (Artemis SA Luxembourg Succursale de Geneve, Switzerland); purchased 1999 by NGA.

[1] This drawing does not appear to be among those seized by the Nazis from Thalmann, according to files at the National Archives.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.
Chardeau, Gilles, M.
Guiraud, Mme.
Thalmann, Richard

Exhibition History

1787: possibly Salon de l'Academie Royale, Paris, no. 116 (based on the possible identification of the sitter as the Vicomtesse de Gand).

1926: Femmes Peintres, Hôtel des Négociants en Objets d'Art, Paris, no. 56.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 254-255, 291, no. 111 (color).

2019: The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1902: Portalis, Baron Roger. "Adélaïde Labille-Guiard." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, I (1902): p. 48.

1902: Portalis, Baron Roger. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Paris, 1902, 46.

1909: Macfall, Haldane. The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century. London, 1909: 192.

1946: Ratouis de Limay, Paul. Le Pastel en France au XVIIIème siècle. Paris, 1946: 106, 216.

1947: Ratouis de Limay, P. "Une portraitiste du XVIIIème siècle, Madame Labille-Guiard." Le Dessin 3 (1947): 106.

1968: Johann Georg, Prinz vol Hohenzollern. "Das Bildnis der Marquise de La Valette." Pantheon XXVI (1968): 477.

1973: Passez, Anne Marie. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1749-1803: Biographie et catalogue raisonné de son oeuvre. Paris, 1973: 199, 200, no. 89, pl. LXXII (as location unknown)

2000: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Marie-Josèphe Félicité de La Rochefoucauld, vicomtesse de Gand." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 23 (Spring 2000): 8.

2006: Jeffares, Neil. Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800. London, 2006: 271.

2009: Auricchio, Laura. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution. Los Angeles, 2009: no. U.22 (as "Portrait of a Woman Identified as the Vicomtesse de Gand")

2015: Burns, Thea, and Phiippe Saunier. The Art of the Pastel. New York, 2015: 105.