Nicolas de Largillierre* (1656-1746)

Portrait of Mademoiselle de Saulx-Tavannes, Marquise de la Rochethulon, seated three-quarter length

細節

Nicolas de Largillierre* (1656-1746)
Portrait of Mademoiselle de Saulx-Tavannes, Marquise de la Rochethulon, seated three-quarter length
oil on canvas
54 x 41in. (138 x 105cm.)

來源

The Rochethulon family, Chteau de Bandiment, Poitou, and by descent, until the late nineteenth century.
M. Albert Leniel, by 1928.
Anon. Sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 2 April 1957, lot 16.
Private collection, France.
Anon. Sale, Christie's, Monaco, 4 December 1992, lot 50.

展覽

Paris, Petit Palais, Exposition Nicolas de Largillire, 1928, no. 101.

拍品專文

The identification of Largillirre's sitters remains a difficult task, but it would seem most likely that the present work depicts Marie-Franoise de Saulx-Tavannes, daughter of the Comte de Tavannes, Marquis de Tilchatel, a prominent member of the Burgundian nobility, who married Claude-Ren de la Rochethulon, Marquis des Prs, and Chevalier de St. Louis, in 1724.

Georges Sortais, who compiled an extensive archive of photographs of Largillirre's works (Bibliothque Nationale, Paris) in preparation for a monograph on the artist, dated the present work to circa 1713-5 and identified it as having come from the Chteau de Bandiment in Poitou. It can be compared, for instance, to Portrait of a Lady as Astraea in the Montreal Museum of Art, generally dated to around 1710-2.