Portrait of Jean-Louis Lacuria

Details

PAUL-JEAN FLANDRIN (LYON 1811-1902 PARIS)
Portrait of Jean-Louis Lacuria
signed and dated ‘Paul Flandrin/ Paris. 1833.’ and inscribed ‘mon excellent ami/ Louis Lacuria’
graphite, fragmentary watermark
8 x 5 5⁄8 in. (20.4 x 14.5 cm)

Provenance

Sir Richard Brinsley Ford (1908-1999), London.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 355.
with Mark Brady & Co., New York.

Literature

O. Jouvenet, Hippolyte, Auguste et Paul Flandrin. Une fraternité picturale au XIXe siècle, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Luxembourg and elsewhere, 1984, p. 275, under no. 187.
E. Marchetti, S. Pacoud, ‘Images d’une société’, in Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste. Les Flandrin, artistes et frères, exhib. cat., Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2021, p. 331, note 19.

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Lot Essay

Dedicated ‘to my dear friend’, this portrait represents the artist Louis Lacuria (1813-1878), a childhood friend of the Flandrin brothers, having studied together first at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and later in the studio of Ingres. Paul Flandrin also executed a portrait of Lacuria’s brother, Clément (1813-1878), also a painter. The latter drawing, which dates from the same year as the present work, 1833, is at the Louvre (inv. RF 2794; see Jouvenet, op. cit., no. 187, ill.).

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