Jean François DELYEN (Gand 1684 - Paris 1761)
Portrait of President Barentin
Oval canvas 74 x 65 cm
Unframed
Provenance:
- Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 2 March 1911, No. 72, reproduced (François de Troy);
Acquired in Bordeaux.
Note:
The painting was rectangular at the 1911 sale
Charles-Honoré de Barentin (1671-1705), here portrayed in bust form in his magistrate's robes, was President of the Grand
Council under the Ancien Régime. Another portrait of Charles Honoré Barentin at the age of 28 is known; it is mentioned in A. James-Sarazin, Catalogue raisonné de Hyacinthe
Rigaud, Dijon, 2016, n°P632, with a reproduction of the engraving.
