Provenance :

• The sitter, by whom commissioned at the old Château de Louveciennes in summer 1789, but left unfinished and presumably entrusted to
• Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé (1734-1792), Duc de Brissac, and perhaps retrieved at his residence with other portraits of Madame Du Barry in September 1793 by
• Louis Antoine Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (1733-1807), later 6th Duc de Rohan
• Louis Marie Jacques Amalric, comte de Narbonne-Lara (1755-1813), by whom restored after 1802 to
• Madame Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), Hôtel Le Brun, rue du Gros-Chenet, Paris, later completed by her and after her death, described in the estate inventory drafted in her Paris residence in the Château du Coq on the rue Saint-Lazare as 'Un Portrait de Mad. Dubarri a mi jambe en costume de fete & tenant une fleur assise au milieu d'un Parterre dans son cadre de Bois doré', and by inheritance to her niece
• Caroline Vigée (1791-1864) and her husband Jean-Nicolas-Louis de Rivière (1778-1861), Paris and Versailles, and by whom presumably sold circa 1845 to
• Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), Prince de Bénévent (1754-1838), Paris and Château de Valençay, Valençay; (†) his sale, Hôtel des Ventes Mobilières, Paris, 9-10 March 1847, lot 69, where presumably acquired by
• Justin Tripier Le Franc (1805-1883) and his wife Françoise-Élisabeth ('Eugénie') Le Brun (1797-1872), Paris and Passy; (†) his estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 5-7 June 1883, lot 5.
• A Prince of Hohenlohe, possibly Chlodwig Carl Viktor (1819-1901), Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince of Ratibor and Corvey.
• with Eugène Kraemer, Paris, from whom acquired for 150,000 francs on 18 January 1911 by
• Eugène-Charles-Joachim Fould (1876-1929), Baron Fould-Springer and his wife Maria Cécilia von Springer (1886-1978), Paris, and by descent to their daughter
• Baroness Élie de Rothschild, née Liliane Fould-Springer (1916-2003), Paris, and by descent to the present owners.
• Enchères: Christie's, Live Auction 17147, 30 avril 2019, Old Masters, lot 33.

• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Célébrités Françaises, 1953-1954, no. 185.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, 27 November 1954-27 February 1955, no. 342.