Hortense HAUDEBOURT-LESCOT
(Paris 1784-1845)
Portrait of a child
Canvas
Signed and dated lower right Haudebourt Lesc(ot) / 1832
166 x 125 cm
Old restorations
Exhibition :
Probably Salon of 1834, n° 959 (Portrait of young V.)
Born Hortense Lescot, who became Haudebourt-Lescot through her marriage, the author of this portrait is the only woman to appear in François-Joseph Heim's painting of Charles X distributing awards to artists after the 1824 Salon. Faithful to this event, she exhibited more than a hundred works between 1810 and 1840. Trained in Paris and then in Rome by Guillaume Guillon, known as Lethière, she liked to depict scenes of popular Italian life before being adopted as a portraitist by Parisian society. She was the official painter of the Duchess of Berry, and under Louis-Philippe she received commissions for Versailles. At the Salon of 1834, she presented six portraits, including two of Mme de S., which we propose to compare with the portrait of Young Woman Seated in the Shade of a Tree sold in 1986 (Canvas, 169 x 115 cm, signed and dated Hort.h.183.; anonymous sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 22 February 1986, no. 320, reproduced in colour). Its dimensions are close to those of the portrait of this young boy, the same background of hollyhocks and the correspondence of the compositions lead us to think that they may be portraits of two members of the same family, exhibited together that year.
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