FRENCH SCHOOL circa 1800,
entourage of Pierre... Lot 47
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FRENCH SCHOOL circa 1800,
entourage of Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Portrait of Jean Martin Fontaine, gilder painter
Canvas
63 x 53 cm
Misses
Provenance:
Galerie Adolphe Le Goupy - Lecaplain et Cie, Paris in 1924.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of the exhibition Jean-Louis Titon La Neuville, dit Laneuville (1756-1826), portraitist and merchant expert, Vizille, Musée de la Révolution française, 27 June - 27 October 2014, cited as n° 73, reproduced fig.16.
Our portrait bears an old attribution to Prud'hon. It is based on the composition by Prud'hon signed and dated 1793 (Oval canvas, 60 x 50 cm) acquired from the Georges Wildenstein gallery by the Musée National des Beaux-Arts d'Alger (see J. Guiffrey, L'œuvre de P.-P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1924, no. 518).
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