Lot 66: LOUIS TOCQUÉ

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
PARIS 1696 - 1772
PORTRAIT OF LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH, DUC D'ORLEANS AND DUC DE CHARTRES
oil on canvas
57 3/4 by 45 in.; 146.7 by 114.3 cm.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, French painting, 1100 - 1900, 18 October-2 December 1951, no. 89.

A. Doria, Louis Tocqué, Paris 1929, p. 130, under cat. no. 255, reproduced, fig. 116 (with incorrect measurements).

Richard Seymour-Conway, 4υth Marquess of Hertford;
Sir Richard Wallace, 1υst Baronet, London;
By whom given to Sir John Murray Scott, London;
By whom bequeathed to Lady Victoria Sackville-West, Château de Bagatelle, Paris;
By whom sold to Jacques Seligmann, Paris, 1914;
With Germain Seligmann & Co., New York, 1929;
Confiscated from Jacques Seligmann by the Einsatzstab Reichleiter Rosenberg, Paris, November 1940 (inventory SEL 42) and transferred to the German Embassy, Paris (inventory Ib 54) and thereafter restituted through the Munich Central Collecting Point, July 31,1946 (inventory 213/2);
With Germain Seligmann & Co., New York, until at least 1951;
With Ben Elwes Fine Art, London;
From whom acquired by the present collector.