AMERICAN OR CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY

Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, half-length, in a black coat with red collar

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AMERICAN OR CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY
Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, half-length, in a black coat with red collar
oil on canvas, an oval
30¼ x 25¼ in. (76.9 x 64.2 cm.)

來源

Purchased from the dealer N. Baker, c. 1930s
Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Purchased by the current owner in 1968

拍品專文

This portrait was part of the collection of Thomas Gilcrease, the great Oklahoma collector whose American art was given to the city of Tulsa, and is now open to the public as The Gilcrease Foundation. As it was long attributed to the French artist Antoine Vestier (Avallon 1740-1824 Paris), it was not included in the gift, but was instead sold to the current owner in the 1968. While the image of Lafayette differs from the famous portrait by Charles Willson Peale, it is closely in keeping with a number of other early portraits of Lafayette, including a painting by Joseph Boze that was commissioned by Thomas Jefferson in 1790 (figure 1). Jefferson's secretary, William Short, selected Boze and informed Jefferson that "(he) has taken by far the best likeness of the Marquis" (see Susan Stein, The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1993) p. 134).