Nicolas de Largillière
(France 1656–1746)
- Title
- Portrait of an officer
- Year
- circa 1714-circa 1715
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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65.7 x 54.2cm stretcher; 90.0 x 78.8 x 10.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of James Fairfax AO 1995
- Accession number
- 176.1995
- Location
- 15th–19th c European art
- Provenance (4)
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James Oswald Fairfax AC (Australia, b.1933), 24 Oct 1988-22 Jun 1995, Bowral/New South Wales/Australia, Gift of James Fairfax 1995. Purchased by James Fairfax from Colnaghi, New York 1988
Colnaghi U.S.A. (United States of America), 1985-24 Oct 1988, New York/New York/United States of America, by 1985. Sold to James Fairfax, 24 October 1988
Palais Galliera (France), 02 Dec 1976, Paris/France, lot no. 33
The Comtesse Niel (France), 1928, France, by 1928
- Bibliography (9)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Peter Raissis (Australia) (Author), The James Fairfax collection of old master paintings, drawings and prints, Domain, 2003, 110 (colour illus.), 111-112, 113 (colour illus.). cat.no. 29, illustration on page 113 is a detail
Musée des beaux-arts, Nantes (France), Musée des Augustins, Toulouse (France), Visages du Grand Siècle: le portrait français sous le règne de Louis XIV, 1660-1715, Paris, 1997, 153 (illus.). as 'Portrait d'homme' location unknown
Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 1995 1995, 1995, 56.
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), The James Fairfax collection of old masters, Domain, 1992. no catalogue numbers
Richard Nagy (Curator), Martyn Cook, The inspired spirit: three centuries of European painting, Sydney, 1986, 48, 49 (colour illus.). cat.no. 21
Colnaghi U.S.A. (United States of America) (Author), European paintings 1550-1800, New York, 1985, 64, 65 (illus.). cat.no. 21
M.N. Rosenfeld (Author), Largillierre and the eighteenth-century portrait, Montreal, 1982, 197. note 7
'L'exposition Nicolas de Largillierre au Petit Palais' by C. Gronowski, pg. 321-38, Gazette des Beaux-Arts Jun 1928, Jun 1928, 336. note 1
Petit Palais, Paris (France), Nicolas de Largillierre, Paris, 1928, 20. cat.no. 19
- Exhibition history (5)
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Nicolas de Largillierre, Petit Palais, Paris, 1928–1928.
European paintings 1550-1800, Colnaghi U.S.A., 31 Oct 1985–07 Dec 1985.
The inspired spirit: three centuries of European painting, DC-Art (David Cook), Sep 1986–Oct 1986.
The James Fairfax collection of old masters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 Apr 1992–14 Jun 1992.
The James Fairfax collection of old master paintings, drawings and prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Apr 2003–20 Jul 2003.
