Louis Carrogis, called Carmontelle (1717-1806)

细节

Louis Carrogis, called Carmontelle (1717-1806)

The two youthful de Neuville Brothers, on a quay

with inscriptions 'M.M. de Neuville, Les Deux petits frères.', '1767' and '146' on the mount; black lead, red chalk, watercolour heightened with white
279 x 177mm.

来源

Chevalier Richard de Lédans
Pierre de La Mésangère; Paris, 18 July 1831, where purchased by John Duff; and thence by descent

出版

R. de Lédans, Catalogue des Portraits dessinés et peints par Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle, Paris 1807, manuscript p. , no. 605, as part of the album IX

拍品专文

These two children were the sons of Neuville, the Fermier Général. The seated boy wears a brown suit with full fronted breeches. The other one is in a Polish Hussar style uniform with a cap. Nothing is known of them. Carmontelle drew their uncle l'Abbé Neuville and said about him that 'there was no greater womaniser in the whole clergy of France'.

Similar strips added on the side of the drawing appear on a few other sheets at Chantilly such as the portrait of Mlle. de Maury, dame d'honneur de la princesse de Conti