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AMABLE-LOUIS-CLAUDE PAGNEST (Paris 1790-1819)
Monsieur du chevalier de Nanteuil-Lanorville
oil on board
1678 x 1414 in. (42.9 x 36.2 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 14 April 1986, lot 231, as Portrait of M. de Nanteuil-Lamorville.
Private collection, New Jersey, from which acquired by
Matthew Rutenberg (1956-2019), New York, from whom acquired by the present owner.
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The present work is an extremely fine sketch for the final portrait, now in the collection of the Louvre (Inv. no. 7077). Pagnest studied under Jacques-Louis David and is best known for the portraits he exhibited at the Paris Salon in the 1810s.

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