Nicolas de Largillière

Yves-Joseph-Charles Pommyer de Rougemont (?–1788), Directeur des Fermes du Roi;

Thence by descent to his daughter, Mme Louis Theurier, née Geneviève Pommyer (1774–1832);

Thence by descent to her son, Charles Theurier-Pommyer (1800–1876);

Probably by descent to his eldest son, Jacques-Jean-Baptiste-Simon Pommyer;

His widow, née Anne-Pierre de La Hupraye (1807–1883), Marquise Romaine, Paris;

Baron Alfred de Jacquier de Rosée (1871–1935), Château de Schaltin, Namur, Belgium (the great-grandson of Baronne Antoine-Laurent de Jacquier de Rosée, née Elisabeth d’Incourt de Fréchencourt, the daughter of the Abbé Pommyer’s niece, and sister of Jacques-Jean-Baptiste-Simon, Comtesse Pierre d’Incourt de Fréchencourt, née Marie-Françoise Pommyer de Rougemont);

His widow, née Louise Anne-Marie Daly (1885–1967);

Thence by descent to their nephew, Baron Emmanuel de Jacquier de Rosée (1906–1987);

Thence by descent to Baron Alfred Jacquier de Rosée, by 1928;

Thence by descent until anonymously sold ('The Property of a Continental Family of Title'), London, Christie's, 10 December 1993, lot 48, where acquired by the father of the present owner.

Paris, Palais des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris (Petit Palais), Exposition N. de Largillière, May–June 1928, no. 127.

D. Brême, in Nicolas de Largillierre, 1656–1746, exh. cat., Paris 2003, p. 172, under no. 58.

This portrait and the following lot were sold together in 1993 with six other paintings by Largillière, and three pastels, representing members of the Pommyer family: the head of the family, Yves-Joseph – Président Trésorier de France au Bureau de Finances d'Alençon and later Secrétaire du Roi – his wife, Marie-Marguerite Lefève, and their seven children, of which these paintings represent two. As with the other paintings from the set, these works both bear inscriptions and dates on relining canvases, probably copied from the artist's own hand on the original supports.

Yves-Simon Pommyer became Procureur Général au Parlement, 1727–1741, and succeeded his father as Secrétaire du Roi in 1739.

We are grateful to Neil Jeffares for his assistance with the provenance of this lot.