Robert Lefèvre (French 1755-1830)

Robert Lefèvre (French 1755-1830)
Portrait of a young lady in white, full-length, seated in a landscape holding a porte-crayon and a sketch book
Signed and dated Robert Lefevre 1808 (lower left)
Oil on canvas
195.7 x 136cm; 77 x 53½in

Provenance:
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente Anonyme, 23 November 1936, lot 81;
Private Collection, Paris;
Property of the British Rail Pension Fund;
Sotheby’s, London, 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours, 2 April 1998, lot 23, where purchased by the present private collector

Exhibited:
Paris, Salon, 1808, no.519
New York, Wildenstein, French Neoclassicism, April-May 1976, no.10

Literature:
G.Wildenstein, ‘Table alphabétique des portraits peints, sculptés et graves exposés à Paris au Salon entre 1800 et 1826’ in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LXI, January 1963 Illustrated p.18, fig.5