Jean DUCAYER (actif en France vers 1635) Lot n° 245
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Portrait of Marie-Françoise Elisabeth de SAVOIE NEMOURS Octagonal, rectangular oak panel.
22.2 x 16.3 cm
(alterations, missing parts, restoration)
French 17th-century walnut burl veneer frame.
Inventory number lower right of portrait: 246 Fire, iron and stencil marks on back of panel: EU under royal crown, LP under princely crown, LPO under princely crown, numbers 162 and 191.
Inscriptions painted on the back of the panel: Marie-Françoise-Elisabeth de
Savoye-Nemours born 1648, died at Pathavam in Portugal on December 27
December 1683. by Ducuyer.
Provenance :
-Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orléans then King of the French (Petit salon de la duchesse d'Orléans at Château d'EU) -Louis d'Orléans, duc de
Nemours- Ferdinand d'Orléans, Duc d'Alençon - Emmanuel d'Orléans, Duc de Vendôme - sale of the Duchess de Vendôme's estate,
Lugrin, Château de Tourronde, June 5, 1950, lot 246.
Bibliography :
Jean VATOUT, Le Château d'Eu, notices historiques, tome IV, 1836, imp.
de F. Malteste (Paris), p. 75, no. 246.
The painting was enlarged during the reign of Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans and later King of the French, to fit into the panelling of the petit salon of Princess Hélène de Mecklembourg-Schwerin, Duchess of Orléans.
Jean Ducayer or de Cayé or Ducuyer: active in the 17th century, most certainly a pupil of François Clouet, he is known for his portraits of personalities of his time, such as Marie d'Orléans, Duchesse de Nemours (1639) and the Princesse de Condé, mother of the Grand Condé.
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