French School, 18th century - Portrait of Louis Philippe de Bourbon, Duc d’Orléans - image-1

Lot 42 Dα

French School, 18th century - Portrait of Louis Philippe de Bourbon, Duc d’Orléans

Auction 1074 - overview Cologne
21.09.2016, 14:30 - Paintings 15th-19th Centuries
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
Result: 3.100 € (incl. premium)

French School, 18th century

Portrait of Louis Philippe de Bourbon, Duc d’Orléans

Oil on canvas (relined). 80 x 64 cm.

With a later inscription to the upper left: "Louis-Francois de Bo[ur]bon / Prince de Conti ne en 17[17] / Mort en 1776. Epousa Lo[uis]e / Diane, Fille du Regen[t] / Philippe d'Orleans et de / Mlle de Blois" (the letters in square brackets lost due to retouches or erroneously replaced).
Contrary to the later inscription, this work does not in fact depict Louis François de Bourbon, Prince de Conti (1717-1776), but instead Louis Philippe de Bourbon, Duc d'Orléans (1725-1785). Louis Philippe was the only son of Louis I of Orleans and grandson of Philippe II of Orleans, who was regent of France from 1715 - 1723. This half-length portrait is influenced by a similar, three quarter-length depiction by Louis-Michael van Loo showing Louis Philippe wearing a breastplate and the blue sash of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia. - Lempertz auction 630, Cologne, 23.06.1988, lot 56. - Private collection, Lower Saxony.