"Exceptional Portrait Around 1700"
Large and beautiful portrait representing Gilles Binot de Toutville 1671-1741 provost general of the King's camps and armies, commissioner of the French gendarmerie, son of Nicolas Binot, lawyer in parliament, secretary to the King, grand provost of the connestablishment and marshal of France . Large period frame in carved and gilded oak (period gilding). Attributed to Louis Ferdinand Elle the Younger 1649 -1717