379
Portrait of Madame Jacques Nicolas le Boucher d'Ailly
Jean-Baptiste Perroneau (1715-1783)
Estimate
15.000 - 20.000
Session 2
22 October 2024
Description
Pastel on paper
Depicting Marie Louise Catherine Françoise Colette de Villers, wife of Commander Nicolas Le Boucher d'Ailly
Signed and dated "J.B. Perronneau / 1770"
69x56 cm
Category
Paintings
Additional Information
Note:
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau is considered one of the most important masters of pastel of the second half of the 18th century, known for the refinement of his technique and his ability to capture the personality of his sitters.Marie Louise Catherine Françoise Colette de Villers, whose portrait we now present for auction, was born in 1728, daughter of Jean Baptiste François de Villers and Marie Catherine Le Boucher du Menil. In 1747, she married Nicolas Le Boucher d'Ailly, "Counsellor to the King" and military commander of the city of Abbeville, where Perronneau settled in 1767.
Provenance:
M. de Boiville, Abbeville
Gimpel & Wildenstein, Paris (vendido para Ernest Cronier em 1903)
Ernest Cronier, Paris, venda de espólio, Galeria Georges Petit, 6-8 de dezembro de 1905, lote 39
Adquirido pela Duveen Brothers
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, venda de espólio, Galeria Georges Petit, Paris, 6-8 de dezembro de 1920, lote 133
Coleção Goldast, venda de espólio, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 8-9 de fevereiro de 1939, lote 52
Coleção de Susana Garrahan até 1969
Londres, Wildenstein, La Douceur de vivre: Art, Style and Decoration in XVIIIe Century France, 1983, p. 61
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