Mr. O'Flanagan seated in profile to the left in a Park

Part of the original set of portraits which Carmontelle executed at the court of the Duc d'Orléans. Later he made replicas of these portraits for important members of the court on request. The collection remained intact until the Duc d'Aumale acquired them for the Musée Condé at Chantilly from Gordon Duff. For more information see the introduction to a group sold in these Rooms, 15 December 1992, lots 176-183, illustrated, and at Christie's New York, 12 January 1995, lots 107-9.