LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
51.38 in. (130.50 cm.) (height) by 42.32 in. (107.50 cm.) (width)
Markings:
signed and dated lower right: fait par Hyacinthe / Rigaud 1702
Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie André Seligmann, Portraits français de 1400 à 1900, 9 June - 1 July 1936, no. 38;. Paris, Galerie Drouin, Le Portrait Français, June - July 1943, no. 56;. Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent Portraits d'Hommes, 1952 (according to a label on the reverse).
Literature:
M. Granet and J.B. Isabey, Notice des dessins dans les galeries du Musée Royal du Louvre, Paris 1840, cat. no. 1255;. G. van Derveer Gallenkamp, Hyacinthe Rigaud, PhD thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge Mass. 1956, p. 350;. J.F. Mejanès in R. Bacou (ed.), Dessins français du XVIII siècle, de Watteau à Lemoyne, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1987, p. 28, under cat. no. 30;. E. Coquery, Visages du Grand Siècle: le portrait français sous le règne de Louis XIV, 1660-1715, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1997, p. 246, under cat. no. 95;. D. Brême, Hyacinthe Rigaud dessinateur: L'estampille objet d'art, exhibition catalogue, Dijon 2000, p. 42;. D. Sanguineti in D. Sanguinetti and P. Caretta (eds), "Il ritratto di Suzanne Henriette d'Elbeuf di Rigaud a Genova: Fortuna dei modelli francesi e indagine sulla ritrattistica genovese del Settecento", in Suzanne Henriette d'Elbeuf, ultima duchessa di Mantova. Storia di un ritratto e della sua fortuna, Mantua 2001, p. 42;. A. James-Sarazin in P. Boccardo, C. Di Fabbio and P. Senechal (eds.), Genova e la Francia: Opere, artisti, committenti, collezionisti, Milan 2003, pp. 205-219;. D. Sanguineti, Genovesi in posa, Appunti sulla ritrattistica tra fine Seicento e Settecento, Genoa 2011, pp. 32-33; . S. Perreau, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Catalogue concis de l'oeuvre, Sète 2013, p. 173, cat. no. P.771, reproduced p. 173, fig. 771 and plate III, fig 771.
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 15 June 1911, lot 74;. Claudon;. By whom sold, Paris, 23 June 1926, lot 47;. Henri Leroux;. By whom sold, Paris, Palais Galliéra, 23 March 1968, lot 79;. Anonymous sale, Paris, Christie's, 8 November 2005, lot 323. where acquired.