Lot 332
332
P. N. LE ROY (FL. C. 1767)
P. N. LE ROY (FL. C. 1767)

Details
P. N. LE ROY (FL. C. 1767)
A pair of miniature views of the Château of Ménars
On vellum
Both signed and with dedication ‘VUE DU CHATEAU DE MENARD dédiée a Mr. LE MARQUIS DE MARIGNY, / Par son très Humb. et très Obéissant Serviteur P. N. Le Roy Jngr. Geographe du Roy.’ (along the lower edge)
Both rectangular, 56 x 94 mm., gilt-metal mounts in wood frames
Provenance
Collection of marquis de Marigny et de Ménars (1727-1781), Paris.
The sale of his estate, at his town house in Paris at Place des Victoires, 18 March – 6 April 1782, lot 388.
Literature
The inventory of the estate of the marquis de Marigny, 1781–1783, Paris, CARAN, Notary Edmé H. Garnier-Deschênes, Minutier central, étude XCIX 657, pp. 111-112, no. 797: 'Item deux Vües de Menars petites Mignatures par J. B. Le Roi Bordures doré prisées Six Liv Cy 6'.
A. R. Gordon, The Houses and Collections of the Marquis de Marigny, Los Angeles, Ca., 2003, p. 294, no. 733, item 797, footnote 88, p. 579 verbo 'Roy, Jean-Baptiste de (?)'.
N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 351.

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Lot Essay

The château de Ménars was acquired in 1760 by Madame de Pompadour who reputedly paid almost 1,000,000 livres and sold some of her pearl bracelets to meet the first payment. On her death in 1764 the château passed to her brother, Abel-François Poisson de Vandières, marquis de Marigny and Director General of the Bâtiments du Roi. The artist's dedications on the present miniatures are to him.
Another topographical scene by this artist, signed and dated 1767, was formerly in the collection of D. David-Weill and subsequently Sir Charles Clore, sold Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1986, lot 26.

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