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Portrait of the Chevalier de Lézay
Louis de Carmontelle1756
- Attribution
- Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle French, 1717-1806
- Medium
- Red and black chalk on cream laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Primary support: 19.1 × 14.8 cm (7 9/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 22.2 × 17.6 cm (8 3/4 × 6 15/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Jean M. Massengale Memorial Fund
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Son of a shoemaker, Carmontelle tutored children of the nobility and served as a topographical artist during the Seven Years’ War (1756–63). This portrait of a fellow soldier in his regiment, the Dragons de Beaufremont, was made early in his artistic career (few of his works from this period have survived). Carmontelle later joined the household of Louis-Philippe, Duc d’Orléans, and produced over 750 portraits of the people he encountered there.
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