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An Oil on Canvas Portrait After Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun - This small-scale oil on canvas painting is a reproduction after the 1786 self-portrait by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, depicting the artist and her daughter in a close embrace. The work is executed in a Neoclassical style and is mounted on a wooden stretcher secured with metal tacks. The reverse of the canvas bears a partially torn and aged paper label with handwritten text identifying the subject as Mme. Le Brun & Daughter (Mme Le Brun) and stating the piece was Painted in the Louvre, Paris, alongside the number 262. A separate inventory number 95171 is handwritten on the upper stretcher bar. 6 x 8.5 inches.