Lot Essay
The present paintings are related to two larger portraits, now lost, of the same sitters and subjects, painted by Nattier in 1740 for the Duchesse de Mazarin.
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Portrait of a lady, said to be the Marquise de la Tournelle (1717-1744) as a personification of Daybreak; and Portrait of a lady, said to be the Marquise de Flavacourt (1744-after 1799), bust length as a personification of Silence
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After Jean-Marc Nattier
Portrait of a lady, said to be the Marquise de la Tournelle (1717-1744) as a personification of Daybreak; and Portrait of a lady, said to be the Marquise de Flavacourt (1744-after 1799), bust length as a personification of Silence
oil on canvas, unframed
21½ x 17¾ in. (53 x 44 cm.)
a pair (2)
Portrait of a lady, said to be the Marquise de la Tournelle (1717-1744) as a personification of Daybreak; and Portrait of a lady, said to be the Marquise de Flavacourt (1744-after 1799), bust length as a personification of Silence
oil on canvas, unframed
21½ x 17¾ in. (53 x 44 cm.)
a pair (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 June 1988, lots 32 and 33.
Literature
L. Réu, 'Deux portraits des soeurs de Nesle par Nattier', La Renaissance de l'Art, XII, no, 7, July 1929, pp. 349-50.
Versailles, Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Jean-Marc Nattier, 1685-1766 (catalogue by X. Salmon), 1999-2000, p. 131, under no. 28.
Versailles, Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Jean-Marc Nattier, 1685-1766 (catalogue by X. Salmon), 1999-2000, p. 131, under no. 28.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.