FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1725/1730

The Duc d'Estrées, facing right in armour with white sash, white knotted cravat, wearing the blue sash of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost, powdered curly full-bottomed wig; wooded landscape background

細節

FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1725/1730
The Duc d'Estrées, facing right in armour with white sash, white knotted cravat, wearing the blue sash of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost, powdered curly full-bottomed wig; wooded landscape background
on parchment
2.5/8 in. (66 mm.) diam., gold mount, set on the cover of a Louis XVI gold-mounted lacquer bonbonniere with gold hallmarks for Paris, 1778/1779 (36 in. 77 mm. diam.)

來源

E. Warneck, Paris; (+) Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, part II, 19 November 1924, lot 96 (as Marshal d'Harcourt attributed to Massé), estimated 6,000,000 Austrian Crowns.

展覽

Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 992 (as Marshal d'Harcourt).

拍品專文

Victor-Marie, Duc d'Estrées, Comte de Coeuvres (1660-1737) was a Marshal of France and Naval Commander during the war of the Spanish Succession. He later became a member of the Regency Council after the death of King Louis XIV. The present miniature is after the large-scale oil portrait in the Musée National du Château de Versailles, inv. 9198/MV4369.