LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

framed as an oval

Markings:

signed and dated 'Paul De la Roche 1845' (centre left)

Exhibited:

Manchester, Exhibition of Art Treasures, 5 May-17 October 1857, no. 602.

Literature:

C. Fairfax-Murray, Catalogue of the Pictures belonging to his Grace the Duke of Portland, at Welbeck Abbey and in London, London, 1894, p. 36, no. 132. R.W. Goulding, Catalogue of the Pictures belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland, K.G., Cambridge, 1936, pp. 52-3, no. 132. N. Ziff, Paul Delaroche, a Study in nineteenth-century French History Painting, New York, 1977, p. 293, no. 141. S. Bann, 'Delaroche, Napoleon and English Collectors', Apollo, October 2005, pp. 24 and 30.

Provenance:

(Probably) commissioned directly from the artist by Goupil. William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (1800-1879), by whom acquired by 1852, at Harcourt House until moved to Welbeck Abbey in February 1857, and by descent.