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STUDIO OF HYACINTHE RIGAUD (PERPIGNAN 1659-1743 PARIS)

Lot 25
06.07.2023 12:00UTC +00:00
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ID 992756
Lot 25 | STUDIO OF HYACINTHE RIGAUD (PERPIGNAN 1659-1743 PARIS)
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£ 200 000 – 300 000
STUDIO OF HYACINTHE RIGAUD (PERPIGNAN 1659-1743 PARIS)

Portrait of Louis XIV (1638-1715), full-length, in coronation robes

oil on canvas

98 3/8 x 59 1/2 in. (249.8 x 151.3 cm.)





Provenance

(Probably) Anne-Jules de Noailles (1650-1708), 2nd duc de Noailles, comte d’Ayen, maréchal de France and vice-roi de Catalogne, and by descent to his son,

Adrien-Maurice de Noailles (1678-1766), 3rd duc de Noailles, comte d’Ayen, maréchal de France and his wife, Françoise Charlotte d’Aubigné (1684-1739), in whose posthumous inventory of 1739 it appears, where listed in the salon of the hôtel de Noailles, as 'Item un grand tableau représentans Louis quatorze, Dans sa bordure de bois doré, prisé la somme de [...]1200 ll', and by descent to their second son,

Philippe de Noailles, comte de Noailles, prince de Poix, 1st duc de Mouchy (1715-1794), château de Mouchy, and by descent to his daughter as his sole heir not to have left France during the Revolution,,

Louise-Henriette-Charlotte de Noailles, duchesse de Duras (1745-1832), château de Mouchy, by whom passed back to her brother on his return from England in 1800,

Philippe-Louis de Noailles, 2ème duc de Mouchy (1752-1819), château de Mouchy, and by inheritance to his wife,

Anne-Louise-Marie de Beauvau-Craon, princesse de Poix (1750-1834), château de Mouchy, and by descent to her granddaughter,

Léontine de Noailles (1791-1851), vicomtesse de Noailles, château de Mouchy, who restored the present portrait in 1836, and by descent to her daughter,

Anne Marie Cécile de Noailles (1812-1848), and her husband, Charles Philippe Henri de Noailles, 5th duc de Mouchy (1808-1854), château de Mouchy, and by descent in the family until sold in the following,

Les greniers de Mouchy; Huillier & Associés, Paris, 23 October 2020, lot 52, as 'French School, 18th Century', where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

Inventaire après décès de la maréchale duchesse de Noailles (d’Aubigné), 12 October 1739 and 23 December 1739, MS, MC/ET/CXVI/306 [Notaire Ballot], Archives nationales, Paris.

Inventaire après décès d'Adrien Maurice, duc et maréchal de Noailles, ministre d'Etat, en son hôtel, rue Saint-Honoré, à Paris, 30 June 1766, MS, MC/RS//969 [Minutes et répertoire du Notaire Pierre-Louis Laideguive, 1761-1770], Archives nationales, Paris, 'Dans le Sallon des Gardes, à l’égard de six portraits composant l’un, Louis quatorze, l’autre le Grand Dauphin, le duc de Bourgogne, le Duc de Berry et le Roy d’Espagne Philippe cinq, tous peints par Rigault'.

Catalogue de la Collection de portraits de Mouchy-le-Chatel, Précédée d’une notice sur le lieu, Paris, 1845, where listed in the Grand Salon.

'Notice sur Mouchy le Chatel. Beauvais', Moniteur de l’Oise, 1893, p. 7, no. 71, 'Louis XIV, Rigaud'.

A. Pradère, 'L’hôtel de Noailles rue Saint-Honoré de Louis XIV à la Restauration (1712-1829)', Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art français, 2010, p. 90.



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