Studio of Franois-Hubert Drouais (Paris 1727-1775)

Le Petit Elve: portrait of a boy holding a folio

细节

Studio of Franois-Hubert Drouais (Paris 1727-1775)
Le Petit Elve: portrait of a boy holding a folio
oil on canvas
23.5/8 x 19 in. (60 x 50.2 cm.)
in a French carved and gilded 18th Century frame

来源

The Earl of Lonsdale (according to an old label on the reverse).

拍品专文

A version of the picture by Drouais, signed and dated 1760, that was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1761, no. 83. Another, similarly signed and dated, version was sold at Christie's, New York, 4 October 1996, lot 105 ($178,500). The composition served as a tapestry designed by Michel-Henri Cozette and made at the Gobelins factory.

The picture was almost certainly acquired by William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale (1787-1872), who formed a notable collection of French eighteenth-century pictures and furniture.