Antoine Vestier (French, 1740-1824)
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Antoine Vestier (French, 1740-1824)
Portrait of Caroline de Fontanges, 1787
Oval canvas.
Signed and dated.
Titled on a label on the back.
Height 64 Width 53 cm.
(faded)
Louis XVI style frame (Height 84.5 Width 74 cm).
Provenance :
- Viscount and Viscountess of Fontanges ;
- their grandson, Charles-François Amable, Marquis de Fontanges ;
- by descent.
Antoine Vestier, 1787. An oval portrait of Caroline de Fontanges. Signed and dated. In a Louis XVI style frame.
Bibliography: Anne-Marie Passez, "Antoine Vestier", Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1989, reproduced in fig. 63.
In 1782, Caroline Lefebvre (1767-1847) married in Saint-Domingue Colonel François, Vicomte de Fontanges (1740-1822), hero of the American War of Independence and major-general of the island's troops and militia.
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