Lot 271: DONATIEN  NONNOTTE

PROPERTY  OF  A  PRIVATE  COLLECTOR
BESANÇON  1708  -  1785  LYON
PORTRAIT  OF  THE  MARQUISE  DE  GAST
signed  and  dated  center  left  on  the  back  of  the  mirror:  Nonnotte  pinx./17(4)?3
oil  on  canvas
39  5/8    by  31  3/4    in.;  100.5  by  80.5  cm.

Probably Paris, Salon, 1743, no.86 (Celui de Mad.*** finissant sa Toilette).

S. Martin, "Vie et Oeuvre de Donat Nonnotte, Peintre du XVIIe siècle," in Travaux de l'Institut d'Histoire de l'Art de Lyon, cahier nυo 8-9, 1985, p. 95, reproduced fig. 54 (as dated 1743).

Anonymous sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 5 March 1984, lot 1059 (no date given);
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 12 January 1989, lot 85 (as dated 1743);
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 1999, lot 502 (no date given);
Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 27 January 2000, lot 153 (as dated 1783);
There purchased by the present collector.