Madame de Selve faisant de la musique

Madame de Selve making music is a painting by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803), a pupil of Maurice Quentin Latour. Presented at the Salon of 1787, it is currently part of a private collection in New York.

The Countess of Selve, widowed at the age of 24, owned the castle of Villiers in Cerny in present-day Essonne. She is mentioned in Charles Pinot Duclos' book (1704-1772) Les Confessions du comte de *** (1742).

This portrait was sold on June 30, 1927 at the Hotel Drouot, for the sale of Mrs. de Polès, for the sum of 510,000 francs (the equivalent of 32,060,577.14 euros in 2018).