Details
Jean-Baptiste Perroneau (Paris 1715-1783 Amsterdam)
Portrait of Charles de Baschi, Marquis d'Aubaïs, Baron de Caïla, Seigneur de Junas, bust-length, wearing a cuirass and looking to the right
signed and dated 'Perroneau 1746'
pastel
23¼ x 16½ in. (590 x 422 mm.)
Provenance
Laurent Laperlier; Paris, 11 April 1867, lot 71 (48 francs).
Marquis de Beurnonvilles.
Emile Lévy.
Anonymous sale; Paris, 26 March 1925, lot 22.
Marius Paulme; Paris, 13 May 1929, lot 195 (70,000 francs).
Germain Seligman, New York.
Literature
L. Vaillat and P. Ratouis de Limay, Jean-Baptiste Perroneau, Sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris and Brussels, 1923, pp. 14-5, 146, 161, 166, 210.
E. Dacier and P. Ratouis de Limay, Pastels français du XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Paris, 1925, no. 75, pl. III.
G. Seligman, Oh! Fickle Taste, New York, 1952, no. 24.
J. Richardson, The Collection of Germain Seligman, New York, 1970, no. 60.
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres..., Paris, 1999, X, p.773.
Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1746, no. 146.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Exposition Quentin De La Tour et les pastellistes français des XVII et XVIII siècles, 1927, no. 95.
Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, The Roccoco Age, 1983, no. 81.
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, A Magic Mirror: The Portrait in France 1700-1900, 1986, no. 19.
Engraved
Jean Daullé, with differences (the print exhibited at the Salon of 1750)
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