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Summary

English: Profile portrait of Louis XI, king of France (1423-1483), wearing the collar of the order of Saint-Michel.

Français : Portrait de profil de Louis XI, roi de France (1423-1483), portant le collier de l'ordre de Saint-Michel.

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Artist

Jacob de Litemont (d. 1475?) (attributed to)

Title

English: Profile portrait of Louis XI, king of France (1423-1483), wearing the collar of the order of Saint-Michel.

Français : Portrait de profil de Louis XI, roi de France (1423-1483), portant le collier de l'ordre de Saint-Michel.

Object type

painting

Date

circa 1470

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 36.5 cm (14.3 in); width: 22.2 cm (8.7 in)

Collection

Unidentified location
Location	15th-century portrait paintings of men, with Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location label QS:Len,"Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location" and year.

Object history

Provenance:

Said to have been presented by Louis XI (the sitter) to his maître d'hôtel, Rigauld d'Aurel (or Aureille), Seigneur and Baron de Villeneuve (1455-1517), Château de Villeneuve-Lembron (Puy de-Dôme), Auvergne;
By descent to his son, Maximilien d'Aureille (d. 1572);
By descent to N*** d'Aureille and sold along with the Château de Villeneuve-Lembron to
Isaac Dufour (d. 1655), treasurer of France;
By descent to his son Lieutenant-General David Dufour (d. c. 1716);
By descent to his son Jean Dufour (d. 1753);
By descent to his son Jean-François Dufour de Villeneuve (d. 1781);
By descent to his son Jean-Baptiste Claude Dufour de Villeneuve who dies without issue November 1797;
By descent to his sister Catherine-Elisabeth Dufour de Villeneuve (d. 1814) who married Michel Pellissier de Féligonde;
By descent to their son Michel Pellissier de Féligonde, deputé du Puy-du-Dôme;
By descent to his 2nd son Jacques-Michel Pellissier de Féligonde, advisor to the Court at Riom (this and all the above according to inscription on the reverse of the backing panel; see transcription, below);
Passion collection;
With Wildenstein, from circa 1935 until at least 1963;
Private collection.
Auction: Sotheby's, London, 4 July 2012, Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale, lot 9.

Exhibition history

New York, World's Fair (Pavillon de la France), Five Centuries of History Mirrored in Five Centuries of French Art, 1939, no. 36 (as Jean Fouquet);
New York, Wildenstein, The Great Tradition of French Painting, June - October 1939, no. 4;
New York, Wildenstein, Fashion in Headdress, 27 April - 27 May 1943, no. 4;
New York, Wildenstein, French Art Benefit for American Aid to France, December 1946;
Denver, The Denver Art Museum, Art of the Middle Ages, 10 December 1950 - 11 February 1951;
São Paulo, Museo de Arte, O retrato na França, January 1952, no. 1;
Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Six Centuries of Headdress, 3 April - 1 May 1955, no. 1;
New York, Wildenstein, The Painter as Historian, 15 November - 31 December 1962, no. 22.

Source/Photographer

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/old-master-british-paintings-evening-sale/lot.9.html

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