{"title":"Unraveling a Myth: A Misidentified Portrait by Marie-Victoire Lemoine","authors":"Margaret A. Oppenheimer","doi":"10.1086/725529","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In February 2020 a painting by Marie-Victoire Lemoine (1754–1820) stole the show at Doyle auctioneers in New York (fig. 1). Identified as a portrait of Pauline Leclerc, née Bonaparte, flamboyant sister of Napoleon I, it fetched $387,000, including the buyer’s premium. Its provenance probably helped to drive the price, a record for the artist. According to Doyle, Pauline gave the painting to her brother Joseph Bonaparte, who took it with him into exile in America after the First","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":"61 1","pages":"120 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725529","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In February 2020 a painting by Marie-Victoire Lemoine (1754–1820) stole the show at Doyle auctioneers in New York (fig. 1). Identified as a portrait of Pauline Leclerc, née Bonaparte, flamboyant sister of Napoleon I, it fetched $387,000, including the buyer’s premium. Its provenance probably helped to drive the price, a record for the artist. According to Doyle, Pauline gave the painting to her brother Joseph Bonaparte, who took it with him into exile in America after the First