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Nicolas de Largillierre (Paris 1656-1746)
- Portrait of a woman with a macaw

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Nicolas de Largillierre (Paris 1656-1746)
Portrait of a woman with a macaw
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    $50,000 - $70,000

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Sale 2322
Old Masters & 19th Century Art Including Select Works From the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries
9 June 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza Buy Catalog





Lot Description

Nicolas de Largillierre (Paris 1656-1746)
Portrait of a woman with a macaw
oil on canvas, unframed
47 x 39 in. (119.4 x 99 cm.)

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Provenance

Dr. Rieux, Roanne, by 1890.
(Possibly) Princess de Faucigny-Lucinge, née Marie Juliette Elisabeth Amélie 'May' Ephrussi (1880-1964), by 1928.
Anonymous sale; Palais Galliera, Paris, 10-11 December 1962, lot 123.

Literature

M.S. Rosenfeld, Largillierre and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait, Montreal, 1981, p. 123, where erroneously dated to circa 1725 and referred to as no. 82 in the 1928 exhibition catalogue.

Exhibited

Roanne, Ville de Roanne, L'Exposition rétrospective forézienne de Roanne, 5-29 June 1890, no. 722.
(Possibly) Paris, Petit Palais, Exposition N. de Largillierre, May-June 1928, first ed. of catalogue, no. 77; second ed. of catalogue, no. 85 (listed with incorrect dimensions).
Paris, Chez André J. Seligmann, Exposition de portraits français de 1400 à 1900, 9 June-1 July 1936, no. 33.

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