Portrait of Mme Eugénie Moreau

Details

Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Isabey (Nancy 1767- 1855 Paris)
Portrait of Mme Eugénie Moreau
graphite and white chalk
14 5/8 x 10 ¾ in. (36.6 x 27.6 cm)

Provenance

Mr. Thiébault-Sisson, Paris, by 1909.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, acquired in Paris 1930 through Walter Pach.
Her estate; John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Winthrop Rockefeller.
David Rockefeller, New York.

Literature

E. de Basily-Callimaki, J.-B. Isabey: sa vie, son temps, 1767-1855, suivi du catalogue de l'œuvre gravé par et d'apres Isabey, Paris, 1909, pp. 66-67, ill. p. 63.
L.R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries, vol. I, Graz, 1964, p. 394 (as not by Isabey).
M. Potter et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: European Works of Art, New York, 1984, vol. I, ppp. 103, no. 17, ill.

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Lot Essay

The wife of Napoleon's general Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763-1813), whom she married in November 1800, Alexandrine Louise Eugenie Moreau (née Hulot) was an intimate friend of Joséphine Bonaparte. A very talented pianist, Mme Moreau is here portrayed by Isabey seated in front of her Erard piano; at left a libretto of Mozart is a reminder of her special affection for the great composer, whose music was then little known in Paris.

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