Property from an Important Estate, Texas
Portrait of Jean-Thomas, Comte de Bérulle, Lieutenant-Général des Armées d꧃u Roi
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February 6, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Property from an Important Estate, Texas
Nicolas de Largillière
Paris 1656 - 1746
Portrait of Jean-Thomas, Comte de Bérulle, Lieutenant-Général des Armées du Roi
oil on canvas, in an elaborate eigh✅teenth-century frame, possibly original
canvas: 56 ⅝ by 43 ⅜ in.; 143.8 by 110.2 cm
framed: 78 ⅛ by 63 ⅞ in.; 198.4 by 162.2 cm
Vicomte G. Chabert, Paris;
His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit,𒐪 5 June 1909, lot 1;
Where acquired by Mme. Vermaut-Vernon for 49,000 fr๊ancs;
Watel-Dehaynin Collection, Paris;
With Partridge Fine Arts Ltd., London, by 1974;
From whom acquired by Mrs. Carolyn Skellღ♛y (1905-1996), New York;
With Partridge Fine Arts Ltd., London;
From whom acquired by the present collector.
G. Sortais, Largillierre manuscript. [ca. 1912] [manuscript of a catalogue r꧋aisonné of the oeuvre, begun ca. 1912, in the Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Natiꦕonale, Paris, Da 58, vol. I];
F.J.B. Watson,"The English as Collectors of French Furniture," in Connoisseur 186 (June 1974), p. 81, reproduced;
Summer Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London 1974, p. 150, cat. ༒no. 59;
The Grand Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sixth International Exhibition Presented by C.I.N.O.A., exhibition catalogue, New York 1974, p💖. 𒆙143, cat. no. 137 reproduced;
M. N. Rosenfeld, Largillierre and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait, exhibition catalo♕gue, Montrea💜l 1981, pp. 133-135, cat. no. 22, reproduced;
D. Brême, in Nicolas de Largillierre, 1656-1746, ex♑hibition catalogue, Paris 2003, p. 30, reproduced.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grand Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 October 1974 - 5 January 1975, no. 137;
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Largillierre and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait, 19 September - 15 November 1981, no. 22.