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ATTRIBUTED TO MAURICE QUENTIN DE LA TOUR (French, 1704-1788) PORTRAIT OF LOUIS, DAUPHIN DE FRANCE.

Pastel on canvas, mounted on board Housed in a modern gesso decorated frame with mat & inner gilt edge behind glass Unsigned NOTE: Son of King Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska, Father of Louis XVI, Louis XVIII & Charles X. Was born in Versailles September 4, 1729 and died at the Chateaux de Fontainbleau December 20, 1765. REFERENCE: There is another portrait of the sitter at an earlier age by the same artist (dated 1745) in the Louvre. A preparatory study on brown paper, apparently for the present work, is preserved at the Musée Antoine-Lécuyer, a museum devoted to the works of de la Tour that contains many materials from his atelier. SIZE: 21-3/4″ x 16-1/4″. Overall: 31″ x 25-1/4″ CONDITION: Water spots along left edge and horizontally in jacket. Otherwise good. 51441-2 (4,000-8,000) – Lot 1240

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Auction: Fine Art, Asian & Antiques - Winter 2017

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