$2,000.00
A virtuoso display of engraving
Artist: François Chéreau the elder (1680-1729) after Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743)
Title: Jean Baptiste Louis Picon
Date: 1719
School: French, XVIIIth century
Medium: engraving
Dimensions: 400 x 290mm (plate), 420 x 310mm (sheet)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: inscription with sitter’s name and condition
Condition: fine impression on laid paper
Description: portrait of administrator and diplomat Jean Baptiste Louis Picon (1663-1727) after a painting by Hyacinthe Rigaud. Picon was French ambassador to the Ottoman court from 1726 and died in Constantinople in 1727.
Reference: IFF, Chéreau, 49
Provenance: Paul Prouté, Paris, 2004
