Portrait of Jean-Louis Brousse-Desfaucherets by Marie-Guillemine Benoist: The Lost Painting from the 1806 Salon
This key work, presented in the Salon of 1806 by Marie-Guillemine Benoist, has remained since that period with the heirs of the model: Jean-Louis Brousse-Desfaucherets, a successful playwright championed by the Comte de Provence, Deputy Representative of the Third Estate of Paris and theater censor during the Empire. Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768-1826), Portrait of Jean-Louis Brousse-Desfaucherets (1742-1808), oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89 cm/45.86 x 35.03 in.Estimate: €120,000/150,000 Marie-Guillemine Benoist is the only pupil mentioned by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in her Souvenirs. Undoubtedly the most gifted, Marie-Guillemine Le Roulx de La Ville came from a family that considered the arts important. However, her father, director of the King's Saltworks and
