Portrait de mesdames, filles de Louis XV, en costumes travestis

Inventory number

RF 4319, Recto

Handwritten inventory reference:

vol.20, p.214

Collection

Département des Arts graphiques
Cabinet des dessins
Fonds des dessins et miniatures

Artist/maker / School / Artistic centre

Welper, Jean-Daniel (vers 1729-1789)
Ecole française

Description

Object name/Title

Portrait de mesdames, filles de Louis XV, en costumes travestis

Description/Features

Commentaire :

Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniature actifs en France, 1650-1850, Les éditions de l'Amateur, 2008, p. 535-536, cité p. 536

'A side-by-side comparison of the attached images (Christie's London, 03/12/2008, n°210) of heads of the sitter in the Nattier et of the central figure in the Louvre miniature confirms that they are related works: virtually the same style of the coiffure et hair adornment, white ribbon, etc. The comparison also suggests that it is the same depicted person. Since the sitter in the Nattier is not Louis XV's daughter, consequently, the Louvre miniature is not a portrait of Mesdames de France (in the Paris 1906 exh. cat entry, cat. no. 479, as « [...] au milieu, Mme Louise en Terpsichore [...] » (p. 84).' By Ólafur Thorvaldsson

Physical characteristics

Dimensions

H. 0,056 m ; L. 0,078 m

Materials and techniques

Miniature sur parchemin. Signée et datée en bas, à droite : 'Welper f. / 1758'.

Shape

ovale

Places and dates

Date

1758

History

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee

Dernière provenance : Schlichting, Basile, baron de

Acquisition details

legs

Acquisition date

1909

Location of object

Current location

Réserve des miniatures, armoire 7

This artwork is on view by appointment in the reference room for prints and drawings

Index

Collections

Schlichting

People

Louis XV, roi de France, fille de - Louise Marie de France

Subjects

portrait

Techniques

miniature - parchemin