Lot Essay
Hugues Desnotz was a notary at the Chtelet from 1686 to 1715 and an alderman of Paris from 1702 to 1704. This miniature is after the large oil portrait of Nicolas de Largilliere of 1704, now in the Louvre.
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Hugues Desnotz, facing left in black jacket, white shirt, white bands, red gown and dark brown gown, full bottomed powdered wig, holding a letter inscribed 'Mon Mons [...] De Conseiller au' in his left hand, gloves in his right hand; seated, column background
Details
LOUIS-MARIE DULIEU DE CHENEVOUX (b. 1752) AFTER NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERRE (1656-1746)
Hugues Desnotz, facing left in black jacket, white shirt, white bands, red gown and dark brown gown, full bottomed powdered wig, holding a letter inscribed 'Mon Mons [...] De Conseiller au' in his left hand, gloves in his right hand; seated, column background
signed with monogram 'DC' (mid-right)
36 in. (78 mm.) diam., silver-gilt rverbre frame with red-brown enamel border
Hugues Desnotz, facing left in black jacket, white shirt, white bands, red gown and dark brown gown, full bottomed powdered wig, holding a letter inscribed 'Mon Mons [...] De Conseiller au' in his left hand, gloves in his right hand; seated, column background
signed with monogram 'DC' (mid-right)
36 in. (78 mm.) diam., silver-gilt rverbre frame with red-brown enamel border
Provenance
Henry Walters (died 1931), chairman of the Atlantic Coast Line.
His widow, Mrs Henry Walters, ne Sarah Wharton Green Jones, New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 25 April 1941, lot 578.
Baron Cassel, Htel Drouot, Paris, 15 December 1954, lot 35 (FF80,000).
His widow, Mrs Henry Walters, ne Sarah Wharton Green Jones, New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 25 April 1941, lot 578.
Baron Cassel, Htel Drouot, Paris, 15 December 1954, lot 35 (FF80,000).