TOCQUE LOUIS -French School 18Th.C.

LOUIS TOCQUE
Paris - 1696 - 1772
French school

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY HOLDING A FLOWER
maybe close the Russian Imperial Court
Oil on canvas
H : 92 cm L : 74 cm

On the reverse a paper fixed on the original frame with the original signature of Tocqué
Good state of conservation
Framed
Provenance :
Collection of the Prince Paul Galitzin
His sale - 20 January 1870 - lot 56 - Brussels
Collection of Mr Sainctlette - Mayot of Brussels - ( his sale in 1923 )
Collection of Colonel Willems - Brussels ( 1925 )
Sale - Palais des Beaux-Arts - 1979 - Brussels
Private collection - Brussels
Litterature :
Referred in " Louis Tocqué " - by the Count Arnaud Doria
Biographie et catalogue critiques - L'oeuvre complet de l'artiste
Edited by Les Beaux-Arts - Edition d'Etudes et de documents - Paris - 1921 -
Nr 484 - p.149 " Femme tenant une fleur " - Collection Galitzin - sale 17 janvier 1870 - lot 56
Arnaud Doria point out that he saw in the Colonel Willems'collection, another painting by
L. Tocqué " Portrait of the Empress Catherine II ", who was also sold at the sale of the Galitzin'collection in January 1870 - nr 57

Louis Tocqué went to St Petersburg after a request from the Empress Elisabeth to the King
of France Louis XV. She want her portrait made by a painter of his Court
Louis Tocqué stays from 1756 until 1758 in St Petersburg and painted important members
of the Imperial family. After, he was invited to go at Copenhagen where he portrayed
the King Frederic V and his family
See also P. Dorbec in " Gazette des Beaux-Arts " - Paris - pp. 442-448 - 1909

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