Jean Petitot the Elder (Swiss, 1607-1691)

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Jean Petitot the Elder (Swiss, 1607-1691)

Details

Jean Petitot the Elder (Swiss, 1607-1691)
Queen Maria Casimire of Poland (1641-1716), in gold dress
Enamel on gold
Oval, 42 mm. high, in richly enamelled and jewelled gold frame attributed to Gilles Légaré (1610-1685), the reverse set with gold plaque chased with flowers

Provenance

Robert Zahn (1861-1914) Collection, Plauen; Galerie Hugo Helbing, Munich, 20 November 1917, lot 154.
Friedrich Neuburg Collection, Litomerice, Moravia; Hôtel Drouot, 27 February 1939, lot 81.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0181 and 441).

Literature

von der Mühll 1947, p. 42, illustrated in colour no. 10.
Schneeberger 1958, p. 134.
Schidlof 1964, II, p. 631 (described as ‘very good’), p. 1022, illustrated IV, pl. 453, fig. 928.
Grace 1986, illustrated p. 13, fig. 19 (as an 'unknown woman', with frame attributed to Légaré), described p. 11.

Exhibited

Geneva 1956, no. 345, illustrated.
Zurich 1957-58 and 1961.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The sitter married, secondly, in 1665, John III Sobieski (1629-1696), King of Poland 1674-1696 and Grand Duke of Lithuania 1674-1696. They were the grandparents of Maria Clementina Sobieska, wife of Prince James Francis Stuart, the Old Pretender.
Further examples of frame by Gilles Légaré can be found in Scarisbrick 2011, illustrated pp. 107, 139, 140, 141, 143.

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