Self-Portrait, 1707

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 37

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

original canvas (approximate size): 90.5 x 71.1 cm (35 5/8 x 28 in.)
overall: 92.7 x 73 cm (36 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2006.26.1

Artists / Makers

Nicolas de Largillierre (painter) French, 1656 - 1746

Image Use

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Inscription

middle left, on plinth: N D Largillierre / peint par luy mesme 1707

Provenance

Acquired between 1860 and 1910 by comte Alexandre-Marie de Boisgelin [1832-1910], Paris and Château de Beaumont, Beaumont-le-Roger (Eure);[1] by inheritance to his son, comte Georges de Boisgelin [1873-1940], Paris and Château de Beaumont; by inheritance to his son, comte Amaury de Boisgelin [1914-1980]; by inheritance to his widow [née Claudie Février, 1910-2003; in a previous marriage, Madame Pierre Olivier]; presumably by inheritance to her children; (sale, Christie's, Paris, 24 June 2004, no. 88); (Wildenstein & Co., New York); purchased 2 March 2006 by NGA.

[1] Joseph Baillio of Wildenstein & Co. was assisted by Professor Dominique Brême, Maitre François de Ricqlès, and comte Édouard de Boisgelin in establishing the painting's provenance. On this branch of the de Boisgelin family, see Louis, marquis de Fraguier, Une famille parisienne, Paris, 1963.

Associated Names

Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

2004: Selbstbild--Der Künstler und sein Bildnis, Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, 2004-2005, no. 38, repro.

2005: The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier: a centennial celebration of Wildenstein's presence in New York, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 2005-2006, no. 40, repro.

Bibliography

2003: Brême, Dominique. "La vie et l'oeuvre de Nicolas de Largillierre." In Nicolas de Largillierre. 1656-1746. Exh. cat. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2003: repro. 23.

2006: Leca, Benedict. "Nicolas de Largilliere, Self-Portrait." Bulletin / National Gallery of Art, no. 35 (Fall 2006): 18-19, repro.

2009: Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 67, 298-303, color repro.