ARY SCHEFFER (Dordrecht 1795-1858 Argenteuil)

Portrait of General Lafayette (1757-1834), full-length, in a great coat over a stripped waistcoat, holding a hat and a stick

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ARY SCHEFFER (Dordrecht 1795-1858 Argenteuil)
Portrait of General Lafayette (1757-1834), full-length, in a great coat over a stripped waistcoat, holding a hat and a stick
oil on canvas
92½ x 51 1/8 in. (235 x 130 cm.)

来源

Otis A. Mygatt, by 1934, and by inheritance to his nephew
Kenneth Mygatt, from whom purchased in 1951 by
Tony Bouilhet.
Bouilhet-Christofle collection, Paris (on deposit at the Musée Bouilhet-Christofle, Saint-Denis, inv. no. 898.

出版

L. Ewals, Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ary Scheffer, Nimegùe, 1986, pp. 399-400.

展览

Paris, Salon, 1819.
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Exposition du centenaire de La Fayette 1757-1834, 1934, p. 145 (catalogue by André Girodie)

拍品专文

This grand, full-length portrait of Lafayette is one of nearly a dozen paintings of the celebrated general and hero of the American and French revolutions by his friend Ary Scheffer. While several of these paintings exist in variants and replicas, the present canvas appears to be a unique composition. According to Léon Ewals, it was at one time signed and dated: 'Ary Scheffer, à La Grange, 1819'; however, the inscription is no longer evident.