Lot Essay
Jean-Pierre Demetz, a successful lawyer, later served twice as Mayor of Dourdon. We are grateful to Neil Jeffares for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.
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Portrait of Jean-Pierre Demetz (1753-1820)
Details
Marie-Gabrielle Capet (Lyon 1761-1818 Paris)
Portrait of Jean-Pierre Demetz (1753-1820)
signed and dated 'M.G. Capet/An.9. [1800]'
pastel, on two joined sheets
27¼ x 21½ in. (69.2 x 54.6 cm.)
Portrait of Jean-Pierre Demetz (1753-1820)
signed and dated 'M.G. Capet/An.9. [1800]'
pastel, on two joined sheets
27¼ x 21½ in. (69.2 x 54.6 cm.)
Provenance
The sitter; by whom bequeathed to his steward
François Ménard; by whom bequeathed to
Henri Philippe.
with Galerie Cailleux, Paris, Un choix de pastels des maîtres français du XVIIIe siècles , June 1923.
Baron Eugène Fould-Springer; and by descent to his widow
Marie-Cécile von Springer, later Mrs Frank Wooster, by 1934.
François Ménard; by whom bequeathed to
Henri Philippe.
with Galerie Cailleux, Paris, Un choix de pastels des maîtres français du XVIII
Baron Eugène Fould-Springer; and by descent to his widow
Marie-Cécile von Springer, later Mrs Frank Wooster, by 1934.
Literature
Comte A. Doria, Gabrielle Capet, Paris, 1934, no. 88, fig. 9.
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, p. 86, illustrated.
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, p. 86, illustrated.
Exhibited
Paris, hôtel des Négociants en objets d'arts, Explication des peintres, gravures, miniatures et autres ouvrages de femmes peintres du XVIIIe siècle , 1926, number untraced.
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