Marie-Guillemine Benoist

Exhibited by Adam Williams Fine Art Ltd.

Material Oil on canvas

Dimensions 116.5 × 89 cm

Place of Creation Paris

Price Available upon inquiry

Status Vetted

About the Work

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Provenance

Collection of the subject's niece Elisabeth Henriette de La Fortelle, wife ofClaude Thomas Nau de Champlouis;
Collection of his daughter Henriette Madeleine Nau de Champlouis, wife of the Parisian printer Jacques Augustin Delalain;
By descent in the family of the sitter

Literature

Nau family (male and female branches) (1550 to 1894), historical and genealogical notice, Paris, 1894, cited p. 112 footnote;
M.-J. Ballot, A pupil of David. La Comtesse Benoist, l'Émilie de Demoustier, 1768-1826, Paris, 1914, pp. 164, 174, 242, 250;
A. Reuter, Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist: Gestaltungsräume einer Künstlerin um 1800, Berlin, 2002, p. 287 no. 53; 327-338.