Lot n° 98
Estimation :
2000 - 4000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 2 600EUR
Jean GIRARDET (Lunéville, 1709 – Nancy, 1778), Attributed to - Lot 98
Jean GIRARDET (Lunéville, 1709 – Nancy, 1778), Attributed to
Portrait of Anne-Charlotte of Lorraine. c. 1745
Oil on canvas.
H_80 cm W_65 cm
Restored.
Provenance:
- Collection of Henri de Conigliano (or Conegliano), French military officer and historian (1864–1940)
Related work:
- Jean Girardet, Portrait of Anne-Charlotte of Lorraine, 1745, oil on canvas, Abbatial Palace of Remiremont.
Jean Girardet was the official portraitist of the court of Stanislas Leszczynski. After studying under the Lorraine painter Claude Charles and participating in various projects for Duke François III—notably in Florence—he settled permanently in Lorraine, where he became court painter to the King of Poland in 1758.
His work occupies a prominent place in 18th-century Lorraine painting. A versatile artist, Girardet worked in devotional painting as well as large-scale decorative works and portraiture. He thus produced numerous paintings of members of the court of Lunéville, the Lorraine nobility, and prominent figures associated with the duchy.
Anne-Charlotte of Lorraine was the daughter of Duke Leopold I of Lorraine and Elisabeth-Charlotte of Orléans, who was herself the niece of Louis XIV. The sister of François III of Lorraine—who became Grand Duke of Tuscany and later Holy Roman Emperor under the name François I—she belonged to one of the most important European dynasties of the 18th century.
Intended for a career in the church, Anne-Charlotte became abbess of Remiremont in 1738. She nevertheless maintained close ties with her family and with the various courts frequented by the House of Lorraine. After her brother Francis III’s departure and the cession of the duchy to Stanislas Leszczynski, she remained a particularly important figure of the former ducal dynasty. She eventually left Lorraine to join her family in Vienna, before becoming the secular abbess of Mons.
Jean Girardet’s portrait of Anne-Charlotte thus holds special significance. Beyond being a portrait of a princess-abbess, it depicts a representative of the House of Lorraine at a time when the family was gradually relinquishing its historic territories.
Our portrait replicates, on a smaller scale, the composition used by Girardet for his portrait of the princess, currently housed in the abbey palace of Remiremont.
Expert: Mr. Quentin Bonnefoy, Cabinet Artéon.
Expert: Quentin BONNEFOY - Cabinet ARTÉON
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