An Alderman of Paris

1703

Nicolas de Largillière French, 1656-1746

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Title An Alderman of Paris

Artwork Date 1703

Artist Nicolas de Largillière

Life Dates 1656-1746

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

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

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Rosemarie and Ernest Kanzler

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 66.23

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Marks Labeled, on paper, on stretcher: peint par N. de Largillierre | 1703 | écrie sur la toille du tableau | G. Vaillant (Vaillant appears to be conservator's name rather than owner's name); Labeled, on paper, on stretcher: [estate of Baron James de Rothschild] Labeled, on paper, on stretcher: Seligmann

Provenance

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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Published References

Pascal, G. Largillierre. Paris, 1928, pp. 25-26.

Wilhelm, J. "Les tableaux de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris et de l'abbaye de Sainte-Geneviève." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, for 1956 (1957): 21-32.

Cummings, F. "Works of Art Given by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kanzler to the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 47, no. 3-4 (1968): pp. 43-55, pp. 46-47, (ill.) p. 51.

Lastic, G. de. Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (1976): p. 155. [erroneously cited as Toledo.]

Lastic, G. de. "Largillierre et ses modèles. Problèmes d'iconographie," L'Oeil, no. 323 (June 1982): p. 26.

Largillierre amd the Eighteenth-Century Portrait. Exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, 1981 pp. 149, 166-167, cat. 28.

Henshaw, Julia, ed. A Visitor's Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995, p. 199 (ill.).

Visages du Grand Siècle. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts and Musée des Augustins. Nantes and Toulouse, 1997, p. 153.

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