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Hyacinthe Rigaud

Portrait of Madame Grimod de La Reynière, née Marie-Madeleine Mazade (1716–1773), half-length, in a blue velvet cloak and holding a costume mask

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July 4, 10:46 AM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Hyacinthe Rigaud

Perpignan 1659–1743 Paris

Portrait of Madame Grimod de La Reynière, née Marie-Madeleine Mazade (1716–1773), half-length, in a blue velvet cloak and holding a costume mask


signed and dated on the reverse: fait par Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1734.

oil on canvas, unlined, in a Régence frame

unframed: 81.6 x 64.9 cm.; 32⅛ x 25½ in.

framed: 112.8 x 96.2 cm.; 44⅜ x 37⅞ in.

Recorded in Rigaud's account book, 1733, for 600 livres (as 'Mme de la Regnière, buste avec une main. Attitude répétée');

Marie-Madeleine Mazade, later the Marquise de La Ferriére (1716–1773), Paris;

Probably by descent to her husband, Charles de Masso, Marquis de La Ferriére (1717–1773), rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, Paris, after her death in February 1773 (as recorded in an inventory of 13 March 1773, without an artist's name: 'Un portrait reprèsentant Mad(am)e Mazade peint sur toile dans sa chambre de bois doré prisé comme étant portrait de famille.');1

Thence by descent;

Until sold, Cheverny, Rouillac, 6 June 1999, lot 21, for €45,735;

Where acquired by the present owner.

J. Roman, Le livre de Raison de Hyacinthe Rigaud, Paris 1919, p. 209, n. 7 (as 'Mme de la Regnière, buste avec une main. Attitude répétée');

A. James-Sarazin, Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659–1743), PhD thesis, Paris 2003, cat. I, no. 1149, reproduced fig. 476;

S. Perreau, Hyacinthe Rigaud 1659–1743, Le peintre des rois, Montpellier 2004, pp. 177, 242, reproduced fig. 149;

S. Perreau, Hyacinthe Rigaud. Catalogue concis de l'oeuvre, Sète 2013, pp. 288–89, no. P.1385, reproduced;

A. James-Sarazin and J.-Y. Sarazin, Hyacinthe Rigaud: 1659–1743, Dijon 2016, vol. II, p. 514, no. P.1468, reproduced in colour.