After Martin Lambert, French 1630-1699- Double portrait of Henri (1603-77) and Charles Beaubrun (1604-92); oil on canvas, bears signature 'Martin Lambert' (lower right), bears old label attached to the reverse of the left vertical stretcher bar...
After Martin Lambert, French 1630-1699- Double portrait of Henri (1603-77) and Charles Beaubrun (1604-92); oil on canvas, bears signature 'Martin Lambert' (lower right), bears old label attached to the reverse of the left vertical stretcher bar, 143.7 x 177 cm. Provenance: Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Milan, 8 July 2004, lot 80 (as French School, 17th century).; Where acquired by the present owner.; Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5 December 2020, lot 142. Exhibited: Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, on loan 2010–2020. Note: Presumably painted in the late 17th or early 18th century, the present work is a copy after the double portrait by Martin Lambert, at Versailles (inv.MV 5885), painted as a presentation piece ('morceau de réception') for the Paris Académie, in 1675. Lambert was a pupil of Henri Beaubrun (1603-77), who is depicted here with his cousin, another portraitist, Charles Beaubrun (1604-92). The early French art historian, André Félibien (1619-95), recorded that the cousins would work alternately on a single portrait using the same palette, as is depicted here. The portrait they are working on is presumed to be that of Queen Marie Thérèse of France (1638-83); it is shown in the early stages of execution, an outline drawing traced in white on a dark ground. Other recorded copies of the unusual composition are those by Elisa Anfray, 1849, and Héléna Darmesteter, 1892.
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After Martin Lambert, French 1630-1699- Double portrait of Henri (1603-77) and Charles Beaubrun (1604-92); oil on canvas, bears signature 'Martin Lambert' (lower right), bears old label attached to the reverse of the left vertical stretcher bar, 143.7 x 177 cm. Provenance: Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Milan, 8 July 2004, lot 80 (as French School, 17th century).; Where acquired by the present owner.; Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5 December 2020, lot 142. Exhibited: Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, on loan 2010–2020. Note: Presumably painted in the late 17th or early 18th century, the present work is a copy after the double portrait by Martin Lambert, at Versailles (inv.MV 5885), painted as a presentation piece ('morceau de réception') for the Paris Académie, in 1675. Lambert was a pupil of Henri Beaubrun (1603-77), who is depicted here with his cousin, another portraitist, Charles Beaubrun (1604-92). The early French art historian, André Félibien (1619-95), recorded that the cousins would work alternately on a single portrait using the same palette, as is depicted here. The portrait they are working on is presumed to be that of Queen Marie Thérèse of France (1638-83); it is shown in the early stages of execution, an outline drawing traced in white on a dark ground. Other recorded copies of the unusual composition are those by Elisa Anfray, 1849, and Héléna Darmesteter, 1892.
Please refer to department for condition report