The two portraits of Vigée Le Brun that the Prado has are period copies

Almost a year after having removed the paintings from the warehouses and the restoration workshop did its work, the Prado Museum tells elDiario.es that the two portraits attributed to the French painter Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842 ) “are vintage copies made by a different hand”. The research report, prepared by Javier Barón, Head of Conservation of 19th century Painting, is pending closure in the absence of the last bibliographic details. However, they already advance to this newspaper, with regret, that the restored portraits of Carolina, Queen of Naples, an oil on panel from 1790, and Maria Cristina Teresa de Borbón, same support and from the same year, are not the originals painted by the artist.