Ventes live - Lot 115
[French school]
Portrait of Emmanuel de St-Albert.
France, 1767
€ 400 / 500
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Description du lot
Oil on canvas, 119 x 87 cm, dated at lower margin, unsigned (several tears, damages to paint layer, lacune with loss of paint at lower edge).
No frame.
Emmanuel de St-Albert (1702-1773) was a Carmelite priest and became the bishop of Bagdad in 1743. He also operated as the consul of France in Iran and was a great collector and specialist in numismatics. Text in lower margin identifies the subject of the portrait.