A MARBLE BUST OF EDOUARD COLBERT, MARQUIS DE CILLACERF

AFTER MARTIN VAN DER BOGAERT, CALLED DESJARDINS

細節

A MARBLE BUST OF EDOUARD COLBERT, MARQUIS DE CILLACERF
After Martin van der Bogaert, called Desjardins
The figure wearing an elaborate perruque, a lace jabot and a chemise, an embroidered brocade jacket, inscribed M. DESJARDINS/1670 to the reverse
41in. (104cm.) high

來源

Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 20 November 1982, lot 250 ($16,500, including premium).

出版

François Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV, London, 1977, vol. I p. 260.

拍場告示

The title should read Villacerf, not Cillacerf.

拍品專文

Desjardins sculpted the portrait of Edouard Colbert, Marquis de Villacerf, Sûrintendat des Bâtiments to Louis XIV, towards the end of his career. Antoher version of this subject by Desjardins is in the Louvre and has been dated circa 1693. As Desjardins was not admitted to the Royal Academy until 1671, it is doubtful that the date on the present marble can be correct.

Desjardin's major commissions, the Louis XIV equestrian monuments (Place des Victoires, Paris, Lyon and Aix), as well as the majority of his oeuvre were destroyed during the French Revolution.