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Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (1727–1797)

Artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun French, b. 1755, Paris; d. 1842, Paris

Datecirca 1795–1800

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions33 x 24 in. (83.8 x 61 cm)
Frame: 41 1/2 x 35 in. (105.4 x 88.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.224

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated St. Petersburg, Russia, circa 1795-1800; the sitter or his family, St. Petersburg [1]; to his niece, Countess Varvara Nikolaevna Golovin (1766-1821), St. Petersburg; to her daughter, Elisabeth, Countess Leon Potocka (1801-1867); to her daughter, Leonie Wanda, Countess Casimir Lanckoronska (1821-1893), Vienna; to her son Count Karol Lanckoronski (1848-1933), Vienna; to his children Count Antoni (1893-1965), Countess Karolina (1898-2002), and Adelajda (1903-1980) Lanckoronski, Vienna; illegally confiscated by the Gestapo, Vienna, 1939 or November 1942 [2]; taken to Bad Aussee for Adolf Hitler [3]; recovered by the Allies and taken to Munich Central Collecting Point [4]; restituted to Countess Karolina Lanckoronska (1898-2002), Vienna, July 1946; [Frederick Mont and Newhouse Galleries, New York, by 1951]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

[1] The painting may have been painted posthumously.
[2] Jerzy Miziolek's 1995 article, "The Lanckoronski Collection in Poland," notes on p. 31: "...on 1st September [1939] the war broke out and the Collection as well as the palace were confiscated by the Nazis...It was the director of the Dresden Gallery, Dr. Hans Posse who personally organized the confiscation...It is also known that in November 1942 Hans Posse again sent one of his collaborators to Vienna in order to inspect all the art objects in the collection remaining in the Lanckoronski palace."
[3] Aussee nr. 568
[4] MNr. 645. The painting was received on June 24th, 1945 and shipped out on July 30, 1946.
Published ReferencesElisabeth Louise Vigée Lebrun, Souvenirs de Madame Louise-Élisabeth Vigée le Brun, 3 vols. (Paris: Librairie de H. Fournier, 1835/1837), _________.

Karl Lanckorońksi, Palais Lanckoroński Jacquingasse 18. Als Manuskript gedruckt (Vienna, 1903), 13, section XII, "Damensalon," as "Graf Schuwaloff" by Madame Vigée Lebrun.

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Lebrun, Memoirs of Madame LeBrun, abridged English translation by Lionel Strachey (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903), 10, 25, 216.

Pierre de Nolhac, Madame Vigée-Lebrun, peinture de la reine Marie Antoinette… (Paris: Goupil, 1908), 17.161c fig. opp. p. 157.

André Blum, Madame Vigée-Lebrun, peinture des grandes dames du XVIIIe siècle I (Paris: H. Piazza, 1919), 15, 94.

William Henry Helm, Vigée-Lebrun: Her Life, Works and Friendships (London: Hutchinson & Co, n.d. [1915?]), 13, 220 (mistakenly identified as a portrait of P. A. Shuvalov).

Louis Hautecoeur, Madame Vigée-Lebrun, étude critique (Paris: Libraire Renouard, n.d. [1917?], 11.

Baron N. Wrangell, "Several Comments of Mikhail Chibanoff," Starye Gody (February 1910), 32-33.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 162, illus. (b-w).

Lada Nikolenko, "The Russian Portraits of Madame Vigée-Lebrun," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 70 (July-August, 1967), 114 (no. 46), illus. (b-w).

Wall Street Journal (January 11, 1968), illus.

llse Bischoff, "Vigée-Lebrun's Portraits of Men," Antiques 93 (January 1968), 110, illus. (b-w) fig. 1.

Joseph T. Butler, "The American Way with Art," Connoisseur 169 (November 1968), 201, illus. (b-w) fig. 5.

"NCMA Paintings on Loan," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events 12, no. 2 (November 1968), mentioned and illus. (b-w) unnumbered page.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970) 82, illus. (color) 83.

Ann Sutherland Harris, entry for Vigée Lebrun in Women Artists, 1550-1950 (exhibition catalogue) (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976), cat. no. 58.

"Art Works on Loan to Major Exhibitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar (March-April 1982), briefly discussed and illus. (b-w) 7.

Joseph Baillio, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Lebrun, 1755-1842 (exhibition catalogue) (Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 1982), cat. no. 42.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed, Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (color) 17.

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Lebrun, Mémoires d'une portraitiste, 1755-1842 (Paris: Editions Scala, 1989), illus. (b-w) 171.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 135.

Joseph P. Covington, entry for Count Ivan Ivanovitch Shuvalov, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 175, illus. (color).

Mary D. Sheriff, "With Music and Flowers: Vigée-Lebrun's Russian Campaign," in The Val A. Browning Collection: A Selection of Old Master Paintings, Sheila D. Muller, ed. (Salt Lake City: The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, 2001), mentioned and illus. (b-w) 98.

John W. Coffey, "The Painter and the Courtier: Vigée Lebrun's Portrait of Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov," in Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (Winter 2008-9), discussed 7-9, illus. (color) 6, details (color) 9 and front cover.

Joseph P. Covington, entry for Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (1717-1797), in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 362, illus. (color) 363.

Pauline Michgelsen, Portret van Rusland (Amsterdam: Stichting CIRC Atelier, 2013), 26–27, illus. (color) 24.

Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, Souvenirs (Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2015), illus. (color) pl. 100.

Joseph Baillio, Katharine Baetjer, Paul Lang, Vigée Le Brun (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016), cat. no. 69, illus. (color) 196; detail (color) 198.
Exhibition HistoryBaltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists," October 22-December 8, 1968, cat. no. 45.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 82, illus. (color) 83.

Winston-Salem, NC, Salem College, Salem Fine Arts Center, "Women," February 27-March 19, 1972; Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, March 25-April 20, 1972, cat. no. 12.

Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 11-April 13, 1975.

Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Women Artists: 1550-1950," December 21, 1976-March 13, 1977; Austin, TX, April 12-June 12, 1977; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, July 14-September 4, 1977; Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 4-November 27, 1977, cat. no. 58.

Ft. Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, "Elisabeth Louise Vigée Lebrun, 1755-1842" June 5-August 15, 1982, cat. no. 42.

New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France,” February 15–May 15, 2016; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, June 10–September 11, 2016, cat. no. 69, illus. (color) 196; detail (color) 198

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Miracle on Morgan Street: The Foundations of the NCMA, 1946–1960,” September 16, 2020–April 11, 2021.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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