FRANÇOIS-GUILLAUME MÉNAGEOT | Portrait of a gentleman said to be Pierre de Villeroy in revolutionary costume

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 EUR

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Description

François-Guillaume Ménageot
Portrait of a gentleman said to be Pierre de Villeroy in revolutionary costume
Signed with monogram and dated lower right: f.M 1790 and inscribed on the blue booklet: No3/JOURNAL
Oil on canvas, unlined
80,3 x 64,7 cm; 31 2/3 by 25 1/2 in.

Catalogue Note

Painted one year after the beginning of the French Revolution, we see here a gentleman who was active as a revolutionary, possibly Pierre de Villeroy. Born in London in 1744, Ménageot was apprenticed to both Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809) and François Boucher (1703-1770). He later won the Prix de Rome and was at the French Academy in Rome from 1769 to 1774. The Académie Royale in Paris accorded Ménageot as a history painter in 1777 and his works were highly appreciated at the Salon.