FRENCH SCHOOL circa 1800, entourage of Pierre... Lot 47

FRENCH SCHOOL circa 1800, entourage of Pierre Paul Prud'hon Portrait of Jean Martin Fontaine, gilder painter Canvas 63 x 53 cm Misses Provenance: Galerie Adolphe Le Goupy - Lecaplain et Cie, Paris in 1924. Bibliography: Catalogue of the exhibition Jean-Louis Titon La Neuville, dit Laneuville (1756-1826), portraitist and merchant expert, Vizille, Musée de la Révolution française, 27 June - 27 October 2014, cited as n° 73, reproduced fig.16. Our portrait bears an old attribution to Prud'hon. It is based on the composition by Prud'hon signed and dated 1793 (Oval canvas, 60 x 50 cm) acquired from the Georges Wildenstein gallery by the Musée National des Beaux-Arts d'Alger (see J. Guiffrey, L'œuvre de P.-P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1924, no. 518).