CIRCLE OF CHARLES LE BRUN (PARIS 1619-1690)
Lot 237

CIRCLE OF CHARLES LE BRUN (PARIS 1619-1690)

Portrait of François Michel le Tellier, marquis de Louvois (1641-1691), half-length, with the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazare, holding an architectural plan

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CIRCLE OF CHARLES LE BRUN (PARIS 1619-1690)
Portrait of François Michel le Tellier, marquis de Louvois (1641-1691), half-length, with the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazare, holding an architectural plan
oil on canvas, unframed
32 ½ x 24 in. (82.5 x 61 cm.)

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1878-1942), Schloss Schillersdorf, Moravia (no. 90), from whom confiscated by the Nazis in 1938.
Stored at the ‘Zentraldepot’ (Kunsthistorisches Museum), Vienna for the ‘Führermuseum Linz’ by 24 June 1941, as ‘Mignard’ (no. AR 875).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the salt mines at Alt Aussee (no. 954), 1945, as ‘Maquart’, from where transferred to,
Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 1151) by 26 June 1945, as ‘Pierre Mignard’.
Restituted by the Austrian Federal Monuments Office, Vienna on the 16 October 1947 to,
Clarice de Rothschild (1878-1967), New York.
Private collection, Portugal; Christie's, London, 9 December 2011, lot 121.