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A Largillierre for Draguignan
1. Nicolas de Largillierre (1656-1746)
Portrait of Gaspard Charles Guillaume de Vintimille, before 1699
Oil on canvas - 62.5 x 51.5 cm
Draguignan, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Photo: Joron-Derem
Portrait of Gaspard Charles Guillaume de Vintimille, before 1699
Oil on canvas - 62.5 x 51.5 cm
Draguignan, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Photo: Joron-Derem
3/7/24 - Acquisition - Draguignan, Musée des Beaux-Arts - Visitors to the Draguignan museum, whose reopening was a big event last November (see our article), will know that its director, Yohan Rimaud, has successfully relaunched its acquisitions policy: his fine dynamism continues unabated, and even keeps attracting connoisseurs and patrons like the Fondation La Marck, which has just given the institution this portrait by Nicolas de Largillierre (ill. 1), preempted at Drouot through the good offices of the emissary from Orléans who had come to…