Portrait of Empress Marie-Louise
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Marie-Guillemine Benoist
Paris 1768 - 1826
Portrait of Empress Marie-Louise
Oil on canvas, an oval
53,3 x 43,2 cm ; 21 by 17 in.
Collection of the Empress Marie-Louise (as per the 1969 Napoléon exhibition catalogue);
Collection M. S., in 1969;
Anonymous sale, Christie's, Paris, 22 June 2005, lot 15 (as Circle of François Gérard);
Where acquired by the present owner.
P. Fleuriot de Langle, 'Le vrai portrait de Marie-Louise', in Connaissance des Arts, September 1959, no. 91, pp. 29-33, repr. (as François Gérard);
Napoleon: An Intimate Portrait. A travelling exhibition from the Russell Etling Company featuring the Collection of Pierre-Jean Chalençon, Catalogue by Pierre-Jean Chalençon, Brett Topping and Russell Hull Etling, Russell Etling Company, 2005-2011, pp. 50-51 (as François Gérard);
Napoléon, l'Empereur sous la verrière du Grand Palais : La collection Pierre-Jean Chalençon, cat. exh. Grand Palais, Paris 2018, pp. 22-23 and 68 (as François Gérard);
P.-J. Chalençon, Napoléon. La collection, Paris 2019, pp. 140-141 (as François Gérard).
Paris, Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, Napoléon, June-December 1969, no. 490 (as François Gérard).