DE LA TOUR Maurice - Quentin (School of) - Lot 31

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DE LA TOUR Maurice - Quentin (School of) - Lot 31
DE LA TOUR Maurice - Quentin (School of) 1704 - 1788 Charles - Jacques Collin (1707 - 1775), Intendant of the Marquise de Pompadour, General Controller of the Royal and Military Order of Saint - Louis. He is represented from the front, wearing a powdered wig, the collar of his black velvet suit and the linen tie sketched. Pastel Against - pasted on cardboard H.: 32 cm - W.: 24 cm The model of this portrait, of which the original of the same dimensions is kept in the Antoine Lécuyer Museum in Saint - Quentin, has been considered for a long time to represent the Count of Lowendal (1700 - 1755), then his elder brother Ulrich - Frederic of Lowendal (1694 - 1754) (Cf. Albert Besnard and Georges Wildenstein, La Tour, Critical Catalogue, n° 591, p.176 ; Pl. XCV - Paris 1928). It is in fact Charles - Jacques Collin, prosecutor at the Chatelet, who became from 1748 the intendant of Madame de Pompadour, and left Paris for his private mansion called Maison de la Collette, rue Saint- Louis in Versailles, where it still exists (Cf. Christine Debrie, Maurice - Quentin De La Tour, p. 100 & 101 - Albaron 1991). His life, his functions and his history were the subject of a study by Jacques Levron: Dans l'ombre des Grands. Les soucis de l'intendant Collin (Revue des Deux Mondes. fr > Uploads.2016 / 11).
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