Lot 195: 

Studio of Philippe de Champaigne (Brussels 1602-1674 Paris)
Portrait of Jean Antoine de Mesmes (1598-1673), half-length, in black robes
oil on canvas
21½ x 16¾ in. (54.5 x 42.5 cm.)

Pittsburgh, Junior League Gallery, A group of French paintings from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, 9-23 November 1934, no. 4.
Flint, Michigan Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Old Masters, 15 September-7 October 1945, no. 6.
New York, Wildenstein, French painting of the time of Louis XIII and Louis XIV, 9 May-1 June 1946, no. 9.
São Paulo, Museu de Arte, O retrato na França, January 1952.

N. Paly, 'La pintura de Philippe de Champaigne', La revista Belga, II, no. 5, May 1945, p. 29, illustrated.
J. Wilhelm, 'Les tableaux de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris et de l'Abbaye Sainte Geneviève', Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, 1956, p. 26.
B. Dorival, 'Recherches sur les portraits gravés aux XVII et XVIII siècles d'après Philippe de Champaigne', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6e pér., LXXV, no. 1216/1217, May-June 1970, p. 306.
B. Dorival, Philippe de Champaigne, 1602-1674: la vie, l'oeuvre et le catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre, Paris, 1976, I, p. 161; II, p. 177, no. 376, under no. 1530, pl. 376, under 'Oeuvres Authentiques'.

M. Hugot, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 28 January 2009, lot 274 as 'Circle of Philippe de Champaigne'.