LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.79 in. (65.50 cm.) (height) by 21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

G. Oprescu,. Tarile române vazute de artisti franceszi , Bucharest 1926, pp. 12-13, reproduced pl. 2 (the sitter tentatively identified as Alessandro Mavrocordato);. Trivas, MS, 1936, no. 240 . Jeune homme en costume moldave, assis sur une ottomane ;. R. Niculescu, 'Jean-Etienne Liotard à Jassy', in. Genava , 1982, vol. XXX, p. 149, reproduced;. R. Loche and M. Roethlisberger,. L'opera completa di Liotard, Milan 1978, no. 39, reproduced;. A. Boppe,. Les peintres du Bosphore au XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1989, p. 93, reproduced;. R. Loche and M. Roethlisberger, . Liotard. Catalogue, Sources et Correspondance , Doornspijk 2008, vol. I, pp. 285-86, cat. no. 77, reproduced vol. II, fig. 104;. N. Truth,. Maske und Person: Orientalismus im Porträt des Barok , Munich 2009, cat. no. 194, reproduced in color p. 213, pl. 1

Provenance:

Michel Kogalniceano (1821-91), Paris since 1877, where acquired for him by Georges de Bellio;. Prince Théodore Callimachi (1865-94), Bucharest, since 1891;. By descent to his son Prince Jean Callimachi (1880-1940);. By descent to his wife, Princesse Anne-Marie Callimachi, Pembles Cross Farm, Egerton, Kent;. From whom acquired by Roger de Candolle (1905-89), Geneva, in 1959;. Thence by descent