Presumed portrait of Michel Le Tellier
Presumed portrait of Michel Le Tellier
Presumed portrait of Michel Le Tellier
Presumed portrait of Michel Le Tellier
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Louis Ferdinand ELLE II (known as the Elder)

(Paris, 1612 – 1689)

Presumed portrait of Michel Le Tellier (1603–1685) seated in an armchair at a writing table in an interior surrounded by red velvet curtains, resting his right hand on a book “Opere di Malvezi”

Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right “Made by Ferdinand Laïsné 1655”
104.2 x 89.3 cm

Provenance:

London, collection of Mr. Hock, 44 Phillimore Gardens
France, private collection

Bibliography:

André Stegmann, “The place and role of foreign works in French libraries (1640–1670)” in Cahiers de la littérature du XVIIe siècle, no. 10, 1988

Jean Aubert, Alain Daguerre de Hureaux, Emmanuel Coquery, Faces of the Grand Siècle – The French portrait under the reign of Louis XIV 1660–1715, [exh. cat.], Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts (1997) / Toulouse, Musée des Augustins (1997–1998), Somogy, 1997