FRENCH SCHOOL 17th CENTURY, MINIATURE ON COPPER, PORTRAIT OF Jehan MENJOT, CIRCA 1600

TECHNIQUE: Oil on copper

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FRAME : Silver 17th century frame, with satyre, putti and basket of flowers, (rear claws reported)

PORTRAIT SIZE: 4,4x3,5cm

FRAME SIZE: 12x8cm

DESCRIPTION :

Miniature on copper,  identified on the reverse as the portrait of Jehan Menjot.

We thank Mrs Alexandra Zvereva (historian and Art historian), for her research, having found the model in a painting of Frans Pourbus the younger, painted in 1616 or 1618 for the City Hall and some fragments of which remain. He represented a number of the most important figures of the city of Paris, around the king. The man appears at the back, in the part of the canvas preserved at the Hermitage, He is not formally identified there, but there is indeed a Jehan Menjot (but also Mansot or Manjot), prosecutor in the Chamber of Accounts, having married in 1600 (he must have been almost forty years old by 1620). He was a Protestant.


CONDITION: Very good condition

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PRICE: 3300€