Nicolas de LARGILLIèRE (1656-1746) Portrait... - Lot 39 - Daguerre

Nicolas de LARGILLIèRE (1656-1746) Portrait of Marie Thérèse Jacquet de la Bussières, wife of Jean Louis Arnaud, adviser and secretary to the king, general treasurer of the extraordinary of the Wars Web. Ancient restorations. 140 x 106 cm Provenance : Château de Chacenay (near Bar-sur-Aube); sale Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, Palais d'Orsay, 28 March 1979, n° 180 (bought by the family). Since then it has remained in the same family. Exhibitions : Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts (Petit Palais), Nicolas de Largillière, May-June 1928, n°75 of the first edition of the catalogue, n°83 of the second edition. Bibliography: N. de Largillière, Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des Estampes (Da 58/fol), t. I. 25th leaf; Les Sires et les barons de Chacenay par l'Abbé Lalore, Troyes, Librairie Léopold Lacroix, 1885 (with inversion of attribution between the two portraits of the couple); Catalogue de l'exposition Largilliere and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-arts, 19 September-15 November 1981, p. 214, fig. 42a. Portrait engraved by Château in 1710, in a fairly free manner, without mention of the model's name and accompanied by gallant verses. Born in 1658, Marie Thérèse Jacquet de la Bussières married Jean-Louis Arnault in 1696 (whose portrait we present in the following lot). Ten years his junior, this adviser and secretary to the king, promised to a bright future, gives himself the opportunity to bring his descendants into the ranks of the nobility. He became a general farmer in 1702 and died in 1707. Their only daughter, Elisabeth Monique (1700-1779) married Claude-François Ponchet, then bought the Château de Chacenay, which she had fitted out and enlarged. Marie Thérèse Jacquet remarries Nicolas Dupuis de Baillet. Our painting was probably commissioned on the occasion of her first marriage, or just after, as indic