Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Nicolas Lagneau
Portrait of a man, traditionally identified as Nicholas de Villegagnon (1510-1571)
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Nicolas Lagneau
(active circa 1590 - 1630)
Portrait of a man, traditionally identified as Nicholas Durand de Villegagnon (1510-1571)
Black and red chalk with stumping on buff paper;
bears old inscription in brown ink, identifying the sitter: Le Com Villegagnon. anno 1569.
379 by 268 mm; 14 7/8 by 10 1/2 in.
Georges, comte de Montbrison, château de Saint-Roch, near Auvillar, France;
with F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York, by 1932,
where acquired by Winslow and Anna Ames, Saunderstown, Rhode Island (L.2602a and L.2602b),
thence by descent