An Alderman of Paris, 1703

  • Nicolas de Largillière, French, 1656-1746

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 54 7/8 × 41 7/8 inches (139.4 × 106.4 cm)
  • 64 5/8 × 51 3/8 × 4 1/8 inches (164.1 × 130.5 × 10.5 cm)

Gift of Rosemarie and Ernest Kanzler

66.23

On View

  • Fashionable Living: Kanzler Room, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

Baron James de Rothschild [d. 1868] (Paris, France)

by descent to Baron Henri de Rothschild

June 15-16, 1933, sold by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) auction Baron Henri de Rothschild, lot 42

Jean Bloch (Paris, France)

by 1957, Galerie Charpentier (Paris, France)

Spring 1964-1966, sold by (Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York, New York, USA)

Rosemarie and Ernest Kanzler

1966-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Nicolas de Largillière, An Alderman of Paris, 1703, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Rosemarie and Ernest Kanzler, 66.23.