Lot 541: LOUIS-GABRIEL BLANCHET (PARIS 1705-1772 ROME) Portrait of Bernard Forest de Bélidor (1698-1761), half-length, in a

LOUIS-GABRIEL BLANCHET (PARIS 1705-1772 ROME)
Portrait of Bernard Forest de Bélidor (1698-1761), half-length, in a
masonry cartouche
signed, dated and inscribed ‘L. Blanchet / 1752’ (lower left); ‘pinxt. Rome’
(lower right); ‘BELIDOR / TOM.II’ (centre right, on the book spine)
oil on canvas 29 1/4 x 24 1/4 in. (74.3 x 61.6 cm.)
in a carved giltwood frame

PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Monaco, 15 June 1990, lot 18 (FF 166,500).
With Daniel Katz, London,
where acquired by Lord Weidenfeld.