Title
Portrait of an officer
circa 1714-circa 1715
Artist
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Details
- Date
- circa 1714-circa 1715
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65.5 x 54.1 cm original canvas; 65.9 x 55.1 cm stretcher; 90.0 x 78.8 x 10.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of James Fairfax AC 1995
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 176.1995
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Nicolas de Largillierre
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 8 exhibitions
Nicolas de Largillierre, Petit Palais, Paris, Paris, 1928–1928
European paintings 1550-1800, Colnaghi U.S.A., New York, 31 Oct 1985–07 Dec 1985
The inspired spirit: three centuries of European painting, DC-Art (David Cook), Woollahra, Sep 1986–Oct 1986
The James Fairfax collection of old masters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Apr 1992–14 Jun 1992
The James Fairfax collection of old master paintings, drawings and prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Apr 2003–20 Jul 2003
European Old Masters 16th-19th Century from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, , 28 Sep 2017–03 Dec 2017
Archie Plus, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Sep 2020–07 Mar 2021
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 10 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, The James Fairfax collection of old masters, Sydney, 1992, pp [1], [3].
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 1995, Sydney, 1995, pp 24, 56.
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Richard Beresford and Peter Raissis, The James Fairfax collection of old master paintings, drawings and prints, Sydney, 2003, pp 111–12, no 29, col illus pp 110, 113 (detail).
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Colnaghi U.S.A., European paintings 1550-1800, New York, 1985, p 64, no 21, illus p 65.
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Emmanuel Coquery (Editor), Visages du Grand Siècle: le portrait français sous le règne de Louis XIV, 1660-1715, Paris, 1997, illus p 153. As 'Portrait d'homme' location unknown.
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Camille Gronowski, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol 17, 'L'exposition N. de Largillierre au Petit Palais', Paris, Jun 1928, pp 321–38: p 336 and note 1. 'Rigaud et Largillierre, peintres de mains' by Jean de Cayeux
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Richard Nagy and Martyn Cook (Curators), The inspired spirit: three centuries of European painting, Sydney, 1986, p 48, no 21, col illus p 49.
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Myra Nan Rosenfeld, Largillierre and the eighteenth-century portrait, Montreal, 1982, p 197, note 7.
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Études d’art [publiées par le Musée National des Beaux-Arts d’Alger], vol 6, 1951, pp 33–56: p 45, illus fig 2, p 40.
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Exposition N. de Largillierre, Paris, 1928, p 20, no 19.
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Provenance
The provenance of this work is under review and records will be updated as new details become available. The Gallery welcomes any information. Contact provenance@ag.nsw.gov.au
The Comtesse Niel, 1928, France, by 1928
Palais Galliera, 02 Dec 1976, Paris/France, sale Palais Galliera, Paris, 2 Dec 1976, no 33
Colnaghi U.S.A., 1985-24 Oct 1988, New York/New York/United States of America, by 1985. Purchased by James Fairfax, 24 October 1988
James Oswald Fairfax AC, 24 Oct 1988-22 Jun 1995, Bowral/New South Wales/Australia, Gift of James Fairfax 1995