Description
An oil on canvas portrait of a young French courtier, circa 1690.
This evocative antique French-school picture has been attributed to the portrait painter Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752).
De Troy was famous as a portrait painter of fashionable society women.
This is a very attractive late-17th century painting surviving in its original frame and stretcher. The canvas appears to be untouched.
References:
Jean François de Troy, The Alarm, or the Gouvernante Fidèle, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Jean François de Troy, Paris 1679 – Rome 1752, at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
Laurie G. Winters, de Troy, Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press, 6 May 2016.
Everett Fahy & Jayne Wrightsman, The Wrightsman Pictures, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2005) pp. 162-166.
Denise Amy Baxter, Fashions of sociability in Jean-François de Troy’s tableaux de mode, 1725-1738, ed. Alden Cavanaugh.
Performing the Everyday: the culture of genre in the eighteenth century, University of Delaware Press (2007) pp. 28-46.
Memorie per servire alla storia della romana Accademia di San Luca, Melchiorre Missirini, p. 221.
D. & P. Kladstrup, Champagne, Harper Collins, p. 41.
