We are grateful to Dominique Breme for suggesting the attribution to Deylen in a letter dated August 28, 1992. The present paiting will be published in his forthcoming catalogue raisonne on Largilliere.

Other self portraits by the artist are in the Nimes Museum, dateable to 1714, and a private collection (sold Galerie George Petit, Paris, December 5, 1929, lot 7). Breme dates the present painting to circa 1700-1715