Studio of Hyacinthe Rigaud (Perpignan 1659-1743 Paris)
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Studio of Hyacinthe Rigaud (Perpignan 1659-1743 Paris)

Portrait of a military officer, three-quarter-length, in a breastplate, wearing the Order of Saint-Esprit

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Studio of Hyacinthe Rigaud (Perpignan 1659-1743 Paris)
Portrait of a military officer, three-quarter-length, in a breastplate, wearing the Order of Saint-Esprit
oil on canvas
54½ x 41¾ in. (138.5 x 106 cm.)
Provenance
Comtesse de Segouy Collection, Bayonne.
Georges Wildenstein, by 1934;
Confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, August 1940, from Chateau de Moyre, Coloumbiers;
Acquired by Reichsmarschall Hermann Göering;
Returned to Paris through the Munich Central Collecting Point, May 1946;
Restituted to the Wildenstein family.
Literature
Répertoire des biens spoliés en France pendant la guerre, 1939-1945, Berlin, 1947, II, no. 1328.
Exhibited
Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Cinco siglos de arte francés, 24 May-24 June 1977, no. 15, as 'Rigaud'.

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Lot Essay

There is a closely related drawing by Rigaud in the Staatliche Sammlung Albertina, Vienna (see H. Widauer, ed., Die französischen Zeichnungen der Albertina. Vom Barock bis zum beginnenden Rokoko, Vienna, 2004, p. 194, no. F.976, pl. XXXIV).
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