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Nicolas de Largillière

Portrait of Jeanne-Marie de Sacconin de Pravieux as Diana

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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

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Nicolas de Largillière

Paris 1656 - 1746

Portrait of Jeanne-Marie de Sacconin de Pravieux as Diana


oil on canvas

canvas: 53 ⅞ by 41 ⅜ in.; 136.8 by 105.1 cm

framed: 65 by 52 ¼ in.; 165.1 by 132.7 cm

Château de l'Aubépin, Saint-Symphorien-de-Laye;

Comte de Chabannes, Château de la Tourette, Éveux, Rhône, circa 1920;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 30 January 1997, lot 68A;

Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.

G. Sortais, Largillière manuscript (manuscript of a catalogue raisonné of the oeuvre, begun ca. 1912), Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, dossiers Da 58, vol. II, p.14 (as Portrait de Marguerite Chappuis de Margnolas);

S. Cordier, in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 106-108, cat. no. 24, reproduced.

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 24.