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Henri-Horace Roland De la Porte specialized in still life paintings and in trompe l'oeil imitations of antique reliefs and medals.
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Portrait of King Louis XV, bust-length, in a painted oval, a trompe l'oeil medallion
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Henri-Horace Roland De La Porte (Paris 1724-1793)
Portrait of King Louis XV, bust-length, in a painted oval, a trompe l'oeil medallion
oil on canvas, in camaïeu
19½ x 16in. (49.5 x 40.5cm.)
Portrait of King Louis XV, bust-length, in a painted oval, a trompe l'oeil medallion
oil on canvas, in camaïeu
19½ x 16in. (49.5 x 40.5cm.)
Provenance
with Galerie Cailleux, Paris (Autour du Néoclassicisme, March 1973, no. 47).
Literature
M. and F. Faré, La Vie Silencieuse en France - la Nature morte au XVIIIème siècle, Fribourg, 1976, p. 192, fig. 285.