Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842 : her life, works, and friendships : with a catalogue raisonné of the artist's pictures (1915)
Helm, W. H. (William Henry), 1860-1936, Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842 · Boston : Small, Maynard · leaf 208
hands, from the cruelly-taxed public. In this same year she was invited, with her family, to spend a monthat her once much beloved Moulin-J oli, which, after the death of M. Wateletin 1786, had passed into the possession of a new and very different owner,M. Gaudran, a wealthy man of business. M.… … HUBERT ROBERT 87 of rest. However, he had not had time to destroy the chief charms of thegardens and woods. Hubert Robert was now a fellow guest, and it wasduring this time that Madame Lebrun painted his portrait. She describesit as one of my best portraits, an opinion with which most people…