A young woman leaning on the edge of a window, Marie-Denise Villers, from 1798 until 1799

A young woman leaning on the edge of a window, painting exhibited by the artist at the salon of 1799. The sitter has been identified as marie-denise villers, born lemoine, sister of the artist (according to margaret a. Oppenheimer). It's not a portrait of pauline bonaparte, a fiction probably created by a 19th-century art dealer. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: from 1798 until 1799. Place of creation: Paris. Dimensions: height: 195.6 cm (77 in) ; width: 137.5 cm (54.1 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: National Gallery of Victoria. Marie-Victoire Lemoine - A young woman leaning on the edge of a window (Une jeune femme appuyee sur le bord d’une croisee)