Jean-Marc Nattier Paris 1685 - 1766

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

bidding is closed

Description

Jean-Marc Nattier
Portrait of a Lady leaning on a Balustrade
signed and dated centre left: Nattier/Pinxit 1754
oil on canvas

Provenance

With Wildenstein and Co., New York;
Mrs. William B. Weaver, Greenwich, Connecticut;
By whose Estate sold ('Property from the Estate of Mrs. William B. Weaver, Greenwich, Connecticut'), New York, Sotheby's, 12 January, 1989, lot 150;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 11 January, 1996, lot 233,
where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

X. Salmon, Jean-Marc Nattier, exhibition catalogue Musée National des Chateaux de Versailles et de Trianon, 26 October 1999 - 30 January 2000, p. 147, reproduced fig. 4.

Catalogue Note

The sitter in the present portrait has been traditionally identified as Madame de Roissy, the wife of Michel de Roissy, the Receveur Géneral des Finances, whose portrait was shown by Nattier in the 1755 Salon. That painting, however, depicted the sitter in the guise of Hebe.

As stated in the 1996 sale (see Provenance below), the present painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the works of Jean-Marc Nattier, to be published by the Wildenstein Institute.