Jean-Baptiste Colbert, facing right in black embroidered grey silk robes with embroidered pierced lawn collar, long curling dark wig

细节

CIRCLE OF ROBERT VAUQUER, CIRCA 1670
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, facing right in black embroidered grey silk robes with embroidered pierced lawn collar, long curling dark wig
on vellum
oval, 17/8 in. (48 mm.) high, octagonal Empire gold frame with acanthus spandrels on a matted ground, surrounded by a blue enamel band

来源

John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York; (+) Christie's, London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 240 (as by Robert Vouquer, sold 42gns. to Spink).
Jacques Leon Stern, New York; (+) Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, sale no. 1192, 3-4 November 1950, lot 97 (as attributed to Jean Petitot).
Greta S. Heckett, Heckmeres Highlands, Valencia, PA.; (+) part III, Sotheby's, New York, 5 October 1977, lot 305.

出版

G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, III, London, 1907, no. 432, pp. 64-65, pl. CXXXIX, no. 4 (as by Robert Vouquer).
G. C. Williamson, 'Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan's Pictures. The Foreign miniatures. VI.', The Connoisseur, XVIII, 72, August 1907, p. 206, illustrated no. XC (praised as 'charming').

展览

Pittsburgh, PA., Carnegie Institute, Four Centuries of Portrait Miniatures, 1954, no. 89, illustrated pl. XV (as by Robert Vouquer, lent by Eric and Greta S. Heckett).

注意事项

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拍品专文

Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), French statesman and minister of King Louis XIV, patron of the arts and letters.