Louis Carrogis, called Carmontelle* (1717-1806)

細節

Louis Carrogis, called Carmontelle* (1717-1806)

Monsieur Jean-Pierre de Bougainville seated in an armchair in front of a fireplace

with inscriptions 'M.r. de Bougainville l'aîné, de L'académie française.', '1760' , '428' and 'Sn^o 112 m^r. de bougainville l'ainé homme du rare mérite, qui mourut trop jeune pour les sciences et pour les lettres, il était de l'académie francaise./Carmontelle délineavit ad vision 1760' on the mount; black lead, red chalk, watercolor
11¾ x 7½in. (300 x 190mm.)

來源

Chevalier Richard de Lédans
Pierre de La Mésangère; Paris, 18 July 1831, purchased by John Duff; and thence by descent

拍品專文

Brother of the famous explorer, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, after whom the flower was named, the sitter was a writer and an antiquarian born in Paris in 1722. He entered the Académie des Inscriptions in 1745 and, in 1747, the Académie Française. While his brother was a soldier in Canada, Bougainville wrote an essay on the Droits des métropoles grecques sur les colonies, et les devoirs des colonies envers leurs métropoles