Guillaume VOIRIOT (Paris, 1713 - 1799) - Lot 113

Guillaume VOIRIOT (Paris, 1713 - 1799) Portrait of a Lady in a Flower-Stitched Dress ORIGINAL CANVAS AND STRETCHER 91.5 x 73 cm Signed and dated 'VOIRIOT S 1763' lower left Old label and inscription S65 on reverse of frame Original gilded wood frame with gadroons, Louis XVI period Provenance l - Former Cécile Sorel Collection - Sale in Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, December 6, 1928, n°17, sold for 39,100 francs. - Collection of M. Dubourg. Bibliography l Catherine Voiriot: "Guillaume Voiriot (1712-1799), portraitiste de l'Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture" Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, Année 2004, published in 2005 (pages 111-157), p.145, n°22, reproduced p.125, fig.12. Our painting is traditionally identified with Louise-Charlotte de Noailles (1745-1832), Duchesse de Duras, a French memorialist who became lady of the palace to Marie Leszczynska in 1767 and then to Marie-Antoinette from 1770 to 1791. In 1760, she married Emmanuelle-Céleste de Durfort, Duc de Duras. The model's presumed age calls this identification into question. Provenance | Former Cécile Sorel Collection in her Sanary-sur-Mer estate Expert l Cabinet Turquin Viewing by appointment only at Cabinet Turquin, 69 rue Saint-Anne, 75002 Paris. Sold by appointment only.