"Pastel By Jean-baptiste Perronneau (1715 - 1783) "portrait Of Mademoiselle Boyetat De Boissy""
Jean-Baptiste PERRONNEAU Paris, 1715 - 1783, Amsterdam "Portrait of Mademoiselle Boyetat de Boissy" Pastel, 56.5x45.5cm (oval) Format with its frame: 68x58cm Signed and dated "1765" top right Period frame (probably original). Various labels on the back and other inscriptions. Label stuck on the back: "Anne Boyetet born in Orléans on September 20, 1750 daughter of Charles Hector Boyetet de Boissy and Anne Bagenault. Married on May 12, 1777 with François Louis Barville in the Church of Boissy le sec. Painted by Perronneau of the Academy of Painting and exhibited at the 1765 salon" Work exhibited: - Salon du Louvre in 1765, under number 65 (exhibited with two other pastels and 4 oils" - Exhibition "Jean-Baptiste Perronneau a portraitist of genius in the Europe of the Enlightenment" at the Museum of Fine Arts of Orléans from June 18 to September 17, 2017. Bibliography: - Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, his life and his work by Léandre Vaillant and Paul Ratouis de Limay. Edition: Paris and Brussels, National Library of Art and History G; Van Oest & Cie, publisher (1923) Page 86 and 87: (...) The fate of the other three remains just as mysterious: Mlle de Bossy, Mlle Pinchinat as Diane, whom we remember seeing in the Illiers family, descendants of the Pinchinats (...).