Pierre Etienne Falconet
Portrait of a young boy with a drawings portfolio
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January 27, 09:38 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Pierre Etienne Falconet
Paris 1741 - 1791
Portrait of a young boy with a drawings portfolio
oil on canvas, an oval
canvas: 23¾ by 19½ in.; 60 by 49.5 cm.
framed: 33½ by 29⅝ in.; 85 by 75.2 cm.
Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 7 June 1972, lot 44 (as Attributed to Drouais).
Pierre Etienne Falconet was born in Paris but lived in London from 1766 until 1773, devoting his time mainly to portraiture. The son of the famous French sculptor Etienne Falconet (1716-1791), he had come to England on the recommendation of his father to join the famous English portraitist Joshua Reynolds. The young Falconet soon had great success with his natural and lively portraits of children, such as the present example which likely dates to this time.
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