Lot 337: Jean Joseph Vaudechamp (French, 1790-1864, active

Jean Joseph Vaudechamp (French, 1790-1864, active New Orleans 1831-1839), "Portrait of a Creole Woman", oil on canvas, signed and dated "1837" upper right, sight 31 3/4 in. x 25 1/4 in., with period elaborate gilt frame.

Provenance: Mount Hope Plantation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.~ Note: The highly trained French artist Jean Joseph Vaudechamp wintered in New Orleans from 1831 to 1839 His refined neoclassical style of portraiture appealed to the growing middle class of cotton merchants, businessmen and planters in New Orleans and southern Louisiana. In "Portrait of Creole Woman", Vaudechamp captured the sitter's reserved and demure character. Reference: Rudolph, William Keyse, Vaudechamp in New Orleans, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2007