Table Late 17th-early 18th Entourage Of N. By Nicolas De Largilliere

French School from the very end of the 17th century, entourage of Nicolas de LARGILLIERE, representing the presumed portrait of Madame Claude LAMBERT De THORIGNY (Marie Marguerite Bontemps). Our painting is a cover of the composition executed by Nicolas de LARGILLIERE (1656-1746) and kept at the METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART in New York. There is a small variation in the face. Madame Lambert de Thorigny poses near a fountain in the company of her young black slave, wearing the bondage collar, her dog and her parrot. In the background an antique sculpture. She is the wife of Mr. Claude Lambert de Thorigny, President of the Chamber of Accounts and owner of the Hôtel LAMBERT in Paris, which houses the famous Galerie d'Hercule, decorated by Charles Le BRUN. The painting is in good condition. It is presented in a wooden frame and gilded stucco from the end of the 19th century. It was relined formerly It measures (50 X 64 without frame and 64 X 80 with frame). Nicolas de Largillière or Largillière is one of the most famous portrait painters of the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the beginning of that of Louis XV. He leaves to Hyacinthe Rigaud (friend and colleague) the great court portrait and devotes himself to a very wealthy clientele, mainly bourgeois. He had as a pupil JB OUDRY His works are preserved in the greatest French and foreign museums.