Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in a blue velvet mantle with gold lining and a white shirt with a lace collar

Details

Nicolas de Largillière (Paris 1656-1746)
Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in a blue velvet mantle with gold lining and a white shirt with a lace collar
oil on canvas, oval
32¼ x 25 1/8 in. (81.9 x 63.8 cm.)

Provenance

P.-M. d'Augée; Galerie Fievez, Brussels, 20 June 1925, lot 70, as Rigaud but illustrated as Largillière.
with Galerie Neumans, Paris, 1928.
Anonymous sale; Drouot, Paris, 5 March 1986, lot 157, as Largillière. Galerie Moatti, Paris, circa 1986.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Professor Dominique Brême for confirming the attribution of the present painting after inspection of the original and for his help in its cataloguing. Brême dates the painting to circa 1700.

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