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51 - Nicolas de LARGILLIERRE (1656–1746) and his workshop Portrai…
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Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
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Nicolas de LARGILLIERRE (1656–1746) and his workshop Portrait of Marguerite Titon. Oval canvas Height: 81 cm Width: 62 cm Lifting and losses Provenance: Château de Trégranteur, Morbihan A reworking of the composition by Nicolas de Largillierre, of which there is a version in which the sitter is seated in half-length to half-length (auctioned in Paris by Tajan in 1999 and at Sotheby’s New York in May 2019); a bust version, rectangular in format, similar to our painting, is held at the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology in Besançon. Marguerite Bécaille was the wife of Maximilien Titon (1632–1711), a financier and magistrate, Director-General of Louis XIV’s royal armouries and armour workshops, and the mother of the writer Evrard Titon du Tillet (1677–1762), one of Largillierre’s closest friends and most important patrons.
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About the sale Final memories of the castles of Trégranteur and La Roussière
Auction location
Auction time 07/02/2026 at 2:00 PM
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