Live Auction 20450Old Master and British Works on Paper: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1500-1900
JACQUES-ANDRÉ PORTAIL (BREST 1695-1759 VERSAILLES)
Lot 60 Formerly in the Collection of Baron Hatvany

JACQUES-ANDRÉ PORTAIL (BREST 1695-1759 VERSAILLES)

A young girl wearing a bonnet, bust-length, reading a letter

Closed5 July 2022

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JACQUES-ANDRÉ PORTAIL (BREST 1695-1759 VERSAILLES)
A young girl wearing a bonnet, bust-length, reading a letter
red and black chalk, chalk framing lines, watermark posthorn with strap in a shield (fragment)
16.4 x 19.1 cm (6 1⁄2 x 7 1⁄2 in.)

Antonio Cesare [de] Poggi (1744-1836), Paris and London (L. 617) (with his ink inscription on the reverse ‘M. O’ Brayan/ A.C. De P1771’).
Baron Paul Hatvany (1899-1977), London; thence by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

For other studies ther portraits of young women reading or writing, a favourite subject for Portail, see inv. III, 98a; C. Denison, French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1993, no. 44, ill.; and S. Salmon, Jacques-André Portail 1695-1759. Cahier du dessin français, Paris, 1996, no. 16 and 22, ill.