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Late 17th Century Oil Portrait Of Claude Vaillant (c.1700) - Circle Of Charles Le Brun (1619 - 1690)
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Portrait of Claude Vaillant c.1700 Président lieutenant général au bailliage de Péronne et Seigneur d''Hervilly et de Bussy. The illustrious sitter is depicted bust length facing right and painted within the oval. He wears a black robe, white stiff collar and full tumbling wig.
Charles Le Brun (bapt. Paris, 24 Feb. 1619; d Paris, 12 Feb. 1690). French painter, designer, and art theorist, the dominant artist of Louis XIV''s reign. He trained under Vouet and quickly made a name for himself, winning a commission from Cardinal Richelieu when he was barely out of his teens; the only surviving picture from this commission (for the Palais Cardinal in Paris) is Hercules and the Horses of Diomedes (c.1640, Castle Mus., Nottingham). In 1642 Le Brun went to Rome in company with Poussin, who was returning from his visit to P...aris, and remained there until 1646. After his return to Paris he was soon busy with varied commissions and during the 1650s he established himself as the leading decorative painter in France. In 1662 he was raised to the nobility and named first painter to the king, and in 1663 he was made director of the Gobelins factory and of the Académie Royale.
Claude Vaillant (d.1708) The surname Vaillant was first found in Lorraine where this distinguished family held a family seat at Guélis, and were important members of the aristocracy of that region. Alongside Claud Vaillant, noteable other members of this family were: French Botanist, Sébastien Vaillant, 1669-1722; Jean-Baptiste Vaillant, Marshall of France, born 1790 and died in Paris in 1872; Edouard Vaillant, French Socialist, 1840-1915; Auguste Vaillant, Anarchist, 1861-1894; Paul Vaillant-Couturier, 1892-1937, Member of the French Central Communist Party.
The most striking aspect of this sitters costume is his luxuriant wig and we can blame the Bourbon kings of France for starting this fashion When Louis XIII (1601 - 1643) went prematurely bald and took to sporting a hairpiece. At that time ostentation was the order of the day, and soon wigs had become towering, often to the point of absurdity, with some even requiring scaffolding. By the middle of the 17th century, and particularly during the reign of Louis XIV, The Sun King, wigs were as good as obligatory for all ‘persons of quality’ In England they were known as periwigs (shortened to wig by 1675) they were expensive to purchase and titivate making them the preserve of the rich, hence the term ''big-wig'' emerged to refer to the moneyed and powerful.
This high quality work has been executed by a most skilled artist. This is clear not only from his acute observation of the sitters character, which is so sensitively rendered but also from the bravura brushwork and the minute detail of the sitters costume. This striking work is available to purchase in its original carved and gilded frame and is an excellent state of conservation.
Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1082134
Dateline of this antique is 17th Century
Height is 80cm (31.5inches)Width is 70cm (27.6inches)Depth is 6cm (2.4inches)
Antique SA1082134 shown on this page was made in the 17th Century. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was created:
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