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98 - Jean GIRARDET (Lunéville, 1709 – Nancy, 1778), Attributed to
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Jean GIRARDET (Lunéville, 1709 – Nancy, 1778), Attributed to Portrait of Anne-Charlotte of Lorraine. c.1745 Oil on canvas. H_80 cm W_65 cm Restored. Provenance: - Collection of Henri de Conigliano (or Conegliano), French military officer and historian (1864–1940) Related work: - Jean Girardet, Portrait of Anne-Charlotte of Lorraine, 1745, oil on canvas, Abbatial Palace of Remiremont. Jean Girardet was the official portraitist at the court of Stanislas Leszczynski. After studying under the Lorraine painter Claude Charles and working on various commissions for Duke François III, notably in Florence, he settled permanently in Lorraine, where he became the official painter to the King of Poland in 1758. His work occupies a prominent place in 18th-century Lorraine painting. A versatile artist, Girardet practised devotional painting as well as large-scale decorative works and portraiture. He thus produced numerous paintings of members of the court of Lunéville, the Lorraine nobility and prominent figures associated with the duchy. Anne-Charlotte of Lorraine was the daughter of Duke Leopold I of Lorraine and Élisabeth-Charlotte of Orléans, who was herself the niece of Louis XIV. The sister of François III of Lorraine, who became Grand Duke of Tuscany and later Holy Roman Emperor under the name François I, she belonged to one of the most important European dynasties of the 18th century. Intended for a career in the Church, Anne-Charlotte became Abbess of Remiremont in 1738. She nevertheless maintained close ties with her family and with the various courts frequented by the House of Lorraine. Following the departure of her brother Francis III and the cession of the duchy to Stanisław Leszczyński, she remained a particularly important figure of the former ducal dynasty. She eventually left Lorraine to join her family in Vienna, before becoming the secular abbess of Mons. Jean Girardet’s portrait of Anne-Charlotte is therefore of particular significance. Beyond being a portrait of a princess-abbess, it depicts a representative of the House of Lorraine at a time when the dynasty was gradually relinquishing its historic territories. Our portrait reproduces, on a smaller scale, the composition used by Girardet for his portrait of the princess, currently housed in the abbey palace at Remiremont. Expert: Mr Quentin Bonnefoy, Cabinet Artéon. - Expert: Cabinet Artéon
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About the sale Lorraine Residences – From the Polish Court to the Great Collections of Lorraine
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Auction time 10/03/2026 at 2:00 PM
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