Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

French (1755-1842)

Bacchante
1785
Oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 23 3/8 in. (73.3 x 59.4 cm)
Signed and dated upper center: Lse Vge LeBrun f 1785
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.954

Provenance

Madame Seube, Toulouse (until 1929; sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Toulouse, October 28, 1929, no. ?);
[Wildenstein, New York, by 1937-1939; sold to Clark May 8, 1939, as Portrait of Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante];
Robert Sterling Clark (1939-1955);
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.