Lot n° 13
Estimation :
6000 - 8000
EUR
CARROGIS says CARMONTELLE Louis. (Paris 1717-1806). "Portrai - Lot 13
CARROGIS says CARMONTELLE Louis. (Paris 1717-1806). "Portrait of the Marquis René - Eustache d'Osmond". Watercolour on black stone strokes, sanguine. H.28,4 L.17. Provenance: Collection of the Duc de Maillé, Chateauneuf-sur-Cher. Reader and organizer of Philippe d'Orléans' parties, Carmontelle was a writer, painter, architect. He specialized in writing "proverbs" or light comedies, which he illustrated with "transparencies", a genre he helped to create. He became famous for the many small portraits he made of his contemporaries, becoming the illustrator of the last years of the Ancien Régime. Born in Santo Domingo in 1751, Marquis René Eustache d'Osmond was appointed ambassador and minister plenipotentiary in The Hague in 1788. In 1791 he was appointed to Saint Petersburg but because of the Revolution he resigned from his post and preferred to join his family in Italy. He then refused to work for Napoleon. In 1814, Louis XVIII appointed him lieutenant general and then French ambassador to Turin. In 1815, he was appointed ambassador to London and peer of France. In 1819, he resigned from his post, and from then on he only sat in the peer chamber until his death in 1838. He was the father of Madame de Boigne, the famous memorialist. Expert: Mr René MILLET.
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