LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pastel

Size Notes:

oval, sight size

Description:

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Markings:

bears old label on the verso: Daniel Bouette nominee/en 1727 consiller sécretaire/de france et controlleur a la/Chancellerie de Rouen and another old pen and ink inscription

Literature:

N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London 2006, p. 557, reproduced

Provenance:

Daniel Bouette the Younger (the sitter),. by descent to his daughter, Madame Louis-René Pinson de Ménerville,. by descent to her son, Louis-Marie Pomponne Pinson de Ménerville,. by descent to to his daughter, Madame Jean-Thomas de Maussion,. by bequest to her adopted daughter, Madame Léon-Stanislas Héron de Villefosse,. by descent to her son, Baron Jean Héron de Villefosse,. by descent to Private collection,. their sale, Monaco, Christie's, 15 June 1986, lot 18 (as attributed to Maurice Quentin de La Tour);. sale, Paris, Noveau Drouot, 16 June 1987, lot 9 (as Attributed to Joseph Vivien);. sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 7 June 1989, lot 154 (as Attributed to Joseph Vivien),. where purchased by the present owner..