501 - Claude LEFEBVRE (1632–1675), attributed to

Claude LEFEBVRE (1632–1675), attributed to Portrait of a Gentleman Oil on oval canvas Oval carved and gilded wooden frame from the period Approximately 67.5 x 56.5 cm (Cracks, stains, lifting, stretcher marks, and areas of missing paint. Restored. Sold as is) Claude Lefebvre, first a student of Eustache Le Sueur and later of Charles Le Brun, established himself as one of the most talented portraitists of the early part of Louis XIV’s reign. Admitted to the Royal Academy in 1663, he developed an elegant and refined style of portraiture that marked the transition to the court portrait style that would later flourish at Versailles, notably through the brush of his student François de Troy. --- Cabinet Artéon, Appraisals of Old Master Paintings and Drawings