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LOUIS TOCQUÉ (PARIS 1696-1772)

Lot 35
15.06.2023 15:00UTC +01:00
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ID 974634
Lot 35 | LOUIS TOCQUÉ (PARIS 1696-1772)
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€ 40 000 – 60 000
LOUIS TOCQUÉ (PARIS 1696-1772)

Portrait en buste du marquis Charles David Godefroy de Senneville

huile sur toile

81,2 x 65,2 cm. (32 x 25 2/3 in.)

porte un cachet héraldique en cire non identifié (au revers du châssis)





Provenance

Collection de la marquise Marie Adélaïde Charlotte d'Aligre (?-1793) née Godefroy de Senneville, la fille du modèle, David Godefroy (né en 1721), marquis de Senneville ; puis par descendance à sa fille, Etiennette de Pomereu (1792-1866) née d'Aligre ; puis par descendance à son petit-fils, Robert de Pomereu d'Aligre (1860-1937), sénateur de la Seine-Inférieure, Paris, jusque 1929 (selon F. Guey, 1929, op. cit. infra) ; puis par descendance dans une collection particulière européenne.

Vente anonyme, Sotheby's, New York, 19 mai 1995, lot 158.

Vente anonyme, Sotheby's, New York, 30 janvier 1998, lot 103.



Literature

A. Doria, Louis Tocqué, coll. L'art français, Paris, 1929, p. 137, n°301, reproduit en noir et blanc p. 236, n°98.

F. Guey, 'L'exposition d'art du XVIIIe siècle au musée de Rouen', Figaro artistique, 18 avril 1929, p. 441 (comme 'Louis Michel van Loo'), reproduit en noir et blanc p. 440.



Exhibited

Rouen, musée de Peinture de Rouen, Exposition d'art du XVIIIe siècle au Musée de Rouen, 25 mars-30 avril 1929, n°60 (comme 'Carle van Loo').

Paris, galerie Charpentier, Cent chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français 1750-1950, 1957, n°94 (comme 'Tocqué Louis').



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LOUIS TOCQUÉ, BUST-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF MARQUIS CHARLES DAVID GODEFROY DE SENNEVILLE, OIL ON CANVAS

This portrait of Charles David Godefroy (born 1721), Marquis de Senneville, Lord of Daubeuf and Vertot, is typical of the work of the portrait painter Louis Tocqué (1696-1772). Dressed in a blue jacket and a golden waistcoat decorated with floral embroidery, the first gentleman of the King's chamber typifies the carefree aristocracy under the reign of Louis XV (1710-1774). The son of Pierre Charles Godefroy (1698-1733), lord of Senneville, councillor of the Parliament of Normandy, Charles David was born in 1721 in Rouen and remained a bachelor until the age of 49, when he married Marie Adélaïde Paviot.

Tocqué's portrait shows the young man well before his marriage, in the prime of life. It is interesting to note that the embroidered jacket worn by the sitter clearly belonged not to the marquis but to the artist, since it also appears in the Portrait of Jean-Baptiste-Joachim Colbert, Marquis de Croissy, painted in 1749 (now in the Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana) and the Portrait of a Gentleman in the collection of the National Gallery in London (inv. no. NG4097).
Artist:Jean Louis Tocqué (1696 - 1772)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Old Masters
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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