Circle of Louis Tocqué

Marquis d'Ussel;
Mrs. Emma Budge, Hamburg, by 1925;
Her forced sale (Sammlung Frau Emma Budge, Hamburg), Berlin, Paul Graupe, 27-29 September 1937, lot 21;
Where acquired by Frederick W. Schumacher, Columbus, Ohio, for RM 3,000;
By whom bequeathed to the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, in 1957 (inv. no. [57] 38.8);
Restituted to the Budge heirs, 2010.

 

 

 

Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Leih-Ausstellung aus Hamburgischem Privatbesitz, May 1925, no. 282 (as by Hyacinthe Rigaud, Marquis d'Angevilliers).

W. Valentiner and P. Wescher, The Frederick W. Schumacher Collection, Columbus, OH 1955, p. 56, no. 26 (as by Hyacinthe Rigaud, The Marquis d'Angiviller), reproduced;
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, The Frederick W. Schumacher Collection, Columbus, OH 1976, p. 254 (as by Anonymous [Formerly Hyacinthe Rigaud], Portrait of a Man), reproduced.

Picture has a wax relining. Overall the picture is in very good condition. A few tiny retouches are visible in the face, and there appears to be some thinness in the blue drapery, but overall the picture has excellent paint retention in the face especially. No major areas of loss and appears fresh to the naked eye. May be hung as is. In a carved and gilded wooden frame.
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