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Summary

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Portrait of Giovanni Paisiello

Artist



Alternative names	Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun; Vigée-Le Brun; Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun
Description	French painter, salonnière, writer and artist
Date of birth/death	16 April 1755	30 March 1842
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work location	Vienna; Antwerp; City of Brussels; Paris; Versailles; Berlin; Rome; Amsterdam; The Hague; Rotterdam; Russia; London
Authority file	: Q213163 VIAF: 59113411 ISNI: 0000000116515656 ULAN: 500010070 LCCN: n82110153 NLA: 36535545 WorldCat

Title

French:

Giovanni Paisiello (1741-1816), compositeur

Portrait of Giovanni Paisiello

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

Vigée-Lebrun attended the premiere of Paisello's opera Nina, o sia la pazza d'amore at the San Carlo Opera House in Naples in 1791. He is pictured here with the score of his opera on the clavichord.

Date

1791

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 130.8 cm (51.4 in); width: 98.3 cm (38.7 in)

Collection

Palace of Versailles

	Native name	Château de Versailles
	Parent institution	Palace and Park of Versailles
	Location	Château de Versailles Place d’Armes 78000 Versailles, [[:Category:Yvelines\|LangSwitch Error: no default]] France
	Coordinates	48° 48′ 17″ N, 2° 07′ 13″ E
	Established	from 1624 until 1790 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1624-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : built 1837: opened to public
	Website	www.chateauversailles.fr
	Authority file	: Q2946 VIAF: 127977992 ISNI: 0000000417949458 ULAN: 500312482 LCCN: sh85022755 NAID: 10038353 WorldCat

Current location

Corps central, appartement capitaine Gardes service de la Reine

Accession number

MV 5877

Object history

exécuté à Naples, décembre 1790 ; envoyé depuis Rome au Salon de 1791 (n° 772) ; collection de Madame Vigée Le Brun jusqu’en 1842, date à laquelle, juste avant sa mort, elle lègue l’œuvre au musée du Louvre ; don de Eugénie Tripier-Lefranc (née Le Brun), 1843 ; dépôt du Louvre au musée de Versailles, 13 septembre 1921 ; exposé dans les salles XVIIIe siècle, n°33, 1965 ; restauration, 1966 ; restauration, 1992

References

Authority file

Source/Photographer

http://collections.chateauversailles.fr/#cc87ab53-92d2-4fb4-8066-76a201f85067

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	08:55, 7 June 2016	2,300 × 3,080 (1.73 MB)	Rettinghaus	more natural colours, resolution
	14:13, 3 November 2015	1,331 × 1,628 (1.23 MB)	VladiMens	Adjusted colour and exposure, adjusted size to its sharpness. Retouched, contrasted and enlightened version of the original image.
	21:11, 26 November 2005	450 × 614 (44 KB)	Joonasl	''Portrait of Giovanni Paisiello'' by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1791. Vigée-Lebrun attended the premiere of Paisello's opera ''Nina o la pazza d'amore'' at the San Carlo Opera House in Naples in 1791. He is pictured here with the