Jacob de Littemont
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Portrait Louis XI of France
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Artist
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Jacob de Littemont
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Alternative names
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Jacob de Litemont; Jacques de Littemont; Jacob Litemont
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Description
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French painter
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Date of birth/death
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15
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century
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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15
th
century
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Authority file
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creator QS:P170,Q1677682
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Title
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Portrait Louis XI of France
label QS:Len,"Portrait Louis XI of France"
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait de Louis XI de France"
label QS:Lde,"Porträt Ludwigs XI von Frankreich"
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Object type
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painting
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Genre
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portrait
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Depicted people
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Louis XI of France
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Date
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circa 1469
date QS:P571,+1469-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium
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oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions
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height: 36.5 cm (14.3 in); width: 22.2 cm (8.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,36.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,22.2U174728
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Collection
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Unidentified location
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Location
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15th-century portrait paintings of men, with Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or Unknown
Unknown
location
label QS:Len,"Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or Unknown
Unknown
location"
and year.
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Object history
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Provenance:
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Said to have been presented by Louis XI (the sitter) to his maître d'hôtel, Rigauld d'Aurel (or Aureille), Seigneur and Baron de Villeneuve (1455-1517),
Château de Villeneuve-Lembron
(Puy de-Dôme), Auvergne;
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By descent to his son, Maximilien d'Aureille (d. 1572);
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By descent to N*** d'Aureille and sold along with the Château de Villeneuve-Lembron to
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Isaac Dufour (d. 1655), treasurer of France;
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By descent to his son Lieutenant-General David Dufour (d. c. 1716);
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By descent to his son Jean Dufour (d. 1753);
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By descent to his son Jean-François Dufour de Villeneuve (d. 1781);
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By descent to his son Jean-Baptiste Claude Dufour de Villeneuve who dies without issue November 1797;
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By descent to his sister Catherine-Elisabeth Dufour de Villeneuve (d. 1814) who married Michel Pellissier de Féligonde;
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By descent to their son Michel Pellissier de Féligonde, deputé du Puy-du-Dôme;
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By descent to his 2nd son Jacques-Michel Pellissier de Féligonde, advisor to the Court at Riom (this and all the above according to inscription on the reverse of the backing panel; see transcription, below);
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Passion collection;
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With Wildenstein, from circa 1935 until at least 1963;
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Private collection.
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Auction: Sotheby's, London, 4 July 2012,
Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale
, lot 9.
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Exhibition history
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New York, World's Fair (Pavillon de la France), Five Centuries of History Mirrored in Five Centuries of French Art, 1939, no. 36 (as Jean Fouquet);
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New York, Wildenstein, The Great Tradition of French Painting, June - October 1939, no. 4;
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New York, Wildenstein, Fashion in Headdress, 27 April - 27 May 1943, no. 4;
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New York, Wildenstein, French Art Benefit for American Aid to France, December 1946;
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Denver, The Denver Art Museum, Art of the Middle Ages, 10 December 1950 - 11 February 1951;
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São Paulo, Museo de Arte, O retrato na França, January 1952, no. 1;
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Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Six Centuries of Headdress, 3 April - 1 May 1955, no. 1;
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New York, Wildenstein, The Painter as Historian, 15 November - 31 December 1962, no. 22.
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References
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Source/Photographer
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https://www.weissgallery.com/artworks/categories/10/9377-attributed-to-jacob-de-litemont-d.-1475-louis-xi-king-of-france-1423-1483-circa-1469/
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Other versions
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