Attribué à Louis Carrogis dit Carmontelle Paris 1717 - 1806

Porte une étiquette au dos annotée à la plume : Offerecido a S. M. Rainha / nello ... Conde de Penha Longa

Louis-Philippe, l’homme et le roi, 1773-1850, Paris, Archives Nationales, Hôtel de Rohan, octobre 1974 - février 1975, p. 27, n°8 

Hinge mounted in two places to the upper edge. The sheet has discoloured somewhat from its original blue colour as is evidenced by the two bands of unaffected sheet running along the upper and lower edges. There are a number of small nicks to the edges of the sheet, particularly along the right edge. There are a few small light brown stains to the sheet and evidence of surface dirt throughout. There are signs of rubbing to the black chalk medium, however inspite of this the image remains strong. Sold in a giltwood frame.
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Le dessin a été exposé aux Archives Nationales de manière erronée comme étant le portrait du duc de Chartres. En 1761, le duc de Chartres est Louis-Philippe d’Orléans (1747-1793) et n’a que quatroze ans. Le jeune homme de notre portrait ne paraît pas être le duc de Chartres dont nous connaissons d’ailleurs l’allure générale aux alentours de cet âge-là par le dessin de Carmontelle le représentant dans l’habit de Villers Cotterêts (lot n°9).


Attributed to Carmontelle ; Portrait of a man ; Black and red chalk and stumping ; Bears signature and dating in pen and black ink: L.C. Carmontelle delt. 1761.
On the verso, bears black chalk inscription.

This drawing was erroneously exhibited at the National Archives as a Portrait of the duc de Chartres. In 1761, the duc de Chartres was the fourteen year old Louis-Philippe d’Orléans (1747-1793). The young man in our portrait does not appear to be the Louis-Philippe, whose appearance at the age of fourteen we know of from Carmontelle’s drawing depicting him in the uniform of Villers Cotterêts (lot n°9).