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Louis Carrogis dit Carmontelle
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
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Description
- Louis Carrogis dit Carmontelle
- Mr. O'Flanaghan seated in a landscape
- Red and black chalk and watercolour
On a Pierre de la Mésangère mount bearing the inscriptions Mr O' flanaghan, Gentilhomme de Mr Le Duc D'orléans 1771 - 318 x 200 mm ; 12 1/2 by 7 3/4 in
Provenance
Collection of the artist before 1807 ;
Acquired by Richard de Lédans outside the sale after the death of Carmontelle on the 17 April 1807, part of the group "750 portraits en pied" ;
Collection Pierre de la Mésangère (1761-1831) after 1816 and still on its mount ;
His sale 18 July 1832, lot 304 " collection composée de cinq cent vingt portraits dessinés et gouachés par Carmontelle" ;
Collection Major James Duff of Drummuir (Scotland) before 1877 ;
Gallery Spink-Leger, London, 1999
Acquired by Richard de Lédans outside the sale after the death of Carmontelle on the 17 April 1807, part of the group "750 portraits en pied" ;
Collection Pierre de la Mésangère (1761-1831) after 1816 and still on its mount ;
His sale 18 July 1832, lot 304 " collection composée de cinq cent vingt portraits dessinés et gouachés par Carmontelle" ;
Collection Major James Duff of Drummuir (Scotland) before 1877 ;
Gallery Spink-Leger, London, 1999
Exhibited
Head and Shoulders : Portrait drawings and some small paintings, 16 November - 17 December 1999, Gallery Spink-Leger, London, 1999, n. 4
Catalogue Note
With its passe-partout matting linked to Pierre de la Mésangère and its presence in England during the 20th century, this portrait of one of the courtesans for the Duke of Orléans wearing a Saint-Cloud Château uniform probably participated in the Grand Tour to Scotland made by Carmontelle drawings from the artist's own collection.
With their collective provenances, establishing at which moment Carmontelle's drawings left the larger series remains an entertaining and challenging game.
The sitter is somewhat hard to place with certainty. The English gallery that exhibited the drawing in 1999 proposed that he might have been one of the Jacobite aristocrats hostile to the new Hanoverian King of England George II, who sought refuge with the Orléans family, who welcomed ideas similar to his own.
Portrayed by Carmontelle by a country trail on an à la reine armchair taken out into the garden on a beautiful day, the exile seems, all the same, perfectly at ease within his adoptive family.
With their collective provenances, establishing at which moment Carmontelle's drawings left the larger series remains an entertaining and challenging game.
The sitter is somewhat hard to place with certainty. The English gallery that exhibited the drawing in 1999 proposed that he might have been one of the Jacobite aristocrats hostile to the new Hanoverian King of England George II, who sought refuge with the Orléans family, who welcomed ideas similar to his own.
Portrayed by Carmontelle by a country trail on an à la reine armchair taken out into the garden on a beautiful day, the exile seems, all the same, perfectly at ease within his adoptive family.