Follower of Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746) French, Nicolas de

Follower of Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746) French, Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746) French, Portrait of a noblewoman, half-length, wearing a powdered wig and a fine blue dress embroidered with silver thread, Follower of Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746) French Portrait of a noblewoman, half-length, wearing a powdered wig and a fine blue dress embroidered with silver thread Oil on canvas, 79.5cm by 67cm Provenance: Holbein Galleries, London, 20th October 1964 Private Collection, West Yorkshire Sold together with a copy of the Holbein Galleries invoice (1964), correspondence dated February 3 1971 between the then Editor, Collector's Questions, Country Life and the owner, in which the artist J-B Santerre (1651-1717) is posited as a potential artist for the work in question and suggesting that the sitter is Marie Anne de la Trémoille, Princesse des Ursins, and the resulting page in Country Life, September 30, 1971, p.797, Trémoille

Estimate:£800

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