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Nicolas de Largillierre (Paris 1656-1746)
Lot 105

Nicolas de Largillierre (Paris 1656-1746)

Portrait of Gaspard Gédéon Pétau, Seigneur de Maulette, half-length, in an embroidered blue waistcoat and a red velvet cape

Closed25 January 2012

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Nicolas de Largillierre (Paris 1656-1746)
Portrait of Gaspard Gédéon Pétau, Seigneur de Maulette, half-length, in an embroidered blue waistcoat and a red velvet cape
oil on canvas
35¾ x 28 7/8 in. (90.8 x 73.3 cm.)

Collection of the Pétau de Maulette family, Montfort-l'Amaury, until c. 1922.
Private collection, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 24 March 1955, lot 29.
Jean Davray, Paris; (+), Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 14-15 April 1986, lot 53.

Specialist note

Gaspard Gédéon Pétau de Maulette (1696-1746) was a knight and lord of De Maulette. According to the catalogue for the exhibition held at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, in 1950, a photograph of the painting identifying the sitter as Monsieur Pétau de Maulette is included in Georges Sortais' 'Fonds Largilliere' in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. A pendant portrait of Madame Pétau, last recorded in the Capdevielle collection, was exhibited at the Largillierre retrospective held at the Petit Palais, Paris, May-June 1928, no. 119. Both portraits were owned by the Pétau de Maulette family until 1922.