Jacques de Lajoüe (Paris 1686-1761)

Portrait of the artist's son with his teacher, said to be the architect Jean-Baptiste de Courtonne the Younger, in a library

細節

Jacques de Lajoüe (Paris 1686-1761)
Portrait of the artist's son with his teacher, said to be the architect Jean-Baptiste de Courtonne the Younger, in a library
signed LAJOË (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 x 21¼in. (71 x 54cm.)

來源

Anon. Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 July 1983, lot 11.
with Galerie Cailleux, Paris.

出版

M. Roland-Michel, Lajoue et l'Art rocaille, Paris, 1984, p. 235, no. P258, fig. 193.

展覽

Paris, Salon, 1742, no. 66, 'Un cabinet d'étude, bibliothèque et autres attributs. Une personne qui travaille à son bureau et le fils de l'auteur appuyé sur un fauteuil' (with larger dimensions).

拍品專文

In the livret of the 1742 salon, the young pupil is identified as Lajoüe's son, while Marianne Roland-Michel (loc. cit.) has suggested that the seated gentleman may be the architect Jean-Baptiste de Courtonne the Younger (they were aged eleven and thirty respectively in 1742). Courtonne and Lajoüe must have known each other quite well, since both had been employed three years earlier by Bonnier de la Mosson, the architect responsible for designing Mosson's cabinets de curiosités and the painter for executing their décors.