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Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder: "Presumed assumed to be Charlotte de Lorraine, demoiselle de Chevreuse"   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder  (1612–1689)  wikidata:Q6687151
 
Alternative names
Louis Elle le Vieux
Description French portrait painter
son of Ferdinand Elle and father of Louis Ferdinand Elle the Younger
Date of birth/death 19 July 1612 Edit this at Wikidata 12 December 1689 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Mechelen Paris
Work location
Paris (1627–1689) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q6687151
Formerly attributed to Charles Beaubrun  (1604–1692)  wikidata:Q5075493
 
Formerly attributed to Charles Beaubrun
Alternative names
Charles Bobrun
Description French painter
Date of birth/death 1604 Edit this at Wikidata 16 January 1692 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Amboise Paris
Work period from 1630s
date QS:P,+1630-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
until 1670s
date QS:P,+1670-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Work location
Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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Title
"Presumed assumed to be Charlotte de Lorraine, demoiselle de Chevreuse"
Description
English: Portrait of Charlotte-Marie of Lorraine (1627-1652), daughter of Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse (1600-1679)
Date circa 1650
date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 55 cm (21.6 in); width: 46 cm (18.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,55U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,46U174728
Object history

Provenance:

  • Anonymous sale, Versailles, Blache auctioneer, June 17th, 1981, lot 6;
  • Paris sale, Ader Nordmann, Hôtel Drouot, 16 December 2016, lot A24. (auctioned as "Portrait de dame de qualité en buste" attr. to Charles Beaubrun); [1]
  • Paris, private collection
Exhibition history Paris, Galerie Alexis Bordes, 12th November to 20th December 2019
Notes
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"Our picture is a society portrait. Less solemn and codified than most of Louis Elle’s works, it is presented as a bust rather than with the artist’s preferred knee-length framing – the latter also preferred by the Beaubrun brothers. With its neutral dark background which brings the sitter closer to the viewer, the canvas is among the artist’s most intimate without losing any of its solemnity. The tight framing increases the emphasis on the young woman’s lively penetrating gaze which has sometimes led to a desire to identify her as Madame de Sévigné.

Although the dates do not contradict that identification –Marie de Rabutin, Marquise de Sévigné, was twenty-five years old in 1650 – this identification is refuted through comparison with portraits of the letter-writer who was, among other things, famous for her blondness. On the other hand, the resemblance of our sitter with that in an anonymous painting conserved in the Museum of Port-Royal des Champs is striking. Close to the Beaubrun and inevitably idealized, this portrait is thought to depict Charlotte-Marie-Lorraine-Guise, grand-daughter to Duke Henri de Guise, the famous Balafré (Scarface), and daughter of Claude de Lorraine, Duke of Chevreuse, and Marie de Rohan, Anne of Austria’s confidante.

Born in 1627, the Demoiselle of Chevreuse was known for her beauty and was, with her mother, one of the main figures in the Princes’ Fronde (uprising). Lover to Jean-François de Gondi, future Cardinal of Retz and a grand adversary to Mazarin, she was subsequently promised to Prince Armand de Conti, but the intervention of the Grand Condé, Conti’s older brother, and their sister, the Duchess of Longueville, sank the project. The Regent then imagined uniting Charlotte with Cardinal Mazarin’s nephew, Paolo Mancini, in order to seal the reconciliation between the frondeurs and the court, but the Duchess of Chevreuse actively opposed it. The princess died in November 1652 in Paris and was deeply mourned by her mother.


A.Z. transl. chr" [2]

References https://www.alexis-bordes.com/fr/oeuvres/nouvelles-acquisitions/peinture/article/portrait-d-une-dame-de-la-cour-de-louis-xiv/
Source/Photographer https://www.galerie-barnabe.com/en-gb/Louis-Ferdinand-ELLE
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