Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746)

Probably commissioned at the time of her first marriage, this portrait of Marie Thérèse Jacquet de la Bussières by Largillière is part of a group of paintings made around 1700 by Nicolas de Largillière.

Madame de la Bussières fulfilled all her promises, appealing to buyers with her splendid looks and attire.

The naturalness of the pose and the vivacity of the colors made this portrait painted around 1700 by Nicolas de Largillière a very coveted lot. This afternoon in Drouot (Daguerre) it received an honorable score of 127 400€, worthy of one of the greatest portrait painters of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.  

In Biarritz, a well-stocked selection of pictures ranged from Louis XIV splendor and the delicate work of late 18th-century star portraitist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun to contemporary lyricism.

The musée d’Art moderne de Paris (MAM) traces the development of an unclassifiable painter whose colors collide and intensify each other. there are many surprises, including nearly 50 works being seen for the first time.

The outbuildings of the Château de Ferrières turned out to contain a number of rare antiquarian books that were the object of enviable scrutiny.

Nicolas de Staël is one of the founding French artists of abstraction, so the sale of one of his Compositions is bound to attract attention.

This 1949 painting highlights a beautiful chapter in the fruitful friendship between an artist-prince and a poet-publisher while providing a glimpse of the moment de Staël came into his own.

Nicola Vassell's new space in Chelsea is one of the rare Black-owned galleries in New York.

On Saturday 5 February at Corbas, near Lyon (Bérard-Péron OVV), €7,000/9,000 will be needed to walk aways with Paysage au crépuscule avec Crocus et Smilax (Landscape at dusk with Crocus and Smilax) attributed to Jean Lemaire, known as Lemaire-Poussin (1598-1659).