Exbury House: Le Goût Rothschild - 05 Oct 2022
A PORTRAIT OF MONSIEUR AUBERT
A PORTRAIT OF MONSIEUR AUBERT
BY NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERE, (FRENCH 1656-1746)
oil on canvas laid on panel
Monsieur Aubert, General Director of the Bridges and Roads of France, three-quarter-length, by a writing table
Inscribed A Monsieur/M*nsi*** Aubert/Controlle* général des Ponts/ Chaussée de france (lower left)
134.5 x 103cm; 53 x 40½in
Provenance
Arnold S. Kirkeby (1901-1962)
By whom given to Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1955
By whom sold, Sotheby's, New York, 10 January 1991, lot 82
Christie's, London, 7 July 2010, lot 186, where purchased after the sale by the executors of the late Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009);
The Trustees of Exbury House
Literature
R. Brown, Bulletin of the Art Division, Los Angeles County Museum, VIII, 1957, pp.8-9, no. 4;
S. Schaefer and P. Husco, European Paintings and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, 1987), p. 53, illustrated, as dated c. 1735;
The attribution was confirmed by Dr Dominique Brême, as a work of c.1725-1730, as at the date of the 2010 sale.