LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.47 in. (64.70 cm.) (height) by 20.75 in. (52.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

indistinctly inscribed on base of pillar

Exhibited:

Paris, Palais de Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Nicolas de Largillière, 1928, no. 49; Berne, Le 17 siècle dans L'Art Français, 1959, no. 39, pl. 24, illustrated. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Portraits Français de Largillière à Manet, 1960, no. 29.

Literature:

B. Lorsky, Peintures et Sculptures françaises du Châteaux d'Azay le Ferron, 1958, p. 45.

Provenance:

Lariboisière Collection. with Cailleux, Paris. with Kurt E. Schon, Ltd., New Orleans, 1984. Private Collection, Baton Rouge; New Orleans Auction Galleries, 4-5 October 2008, lot 1068 ($26,400).