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JEAN-ANTOINE PINCHON (PARIS 1770/1772-1850) PAUL-JEAN FLANDRIN (LYON 1811-1902 PARIS)
Portrait of a young man Portrait of Jean-Louis Lacuria
signed with initial ‘P’ (lower right) signed and dated ‘Paul Flandrin/ Paris. 1833.’ and inscribed ‘mon excellent
black chalk heightened with white, graphite, black wash, on light brown paper ami/ Louis Lacuria’
5 x 4¿ in. (12.8 x 10.7 cm), oval graphite, fragmentary watermark
8 x 5¬ in. (20.4 x 14.5 cm)
$2,000-3,000
$2,000-3,000
PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 22 May 1997, lot 9 (as Jean-Baptiste- PROVENANCE:
Jacques Augustin). Sir Richard Brinsley Ford (1908-1999), London.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 355.
A student of Jean-Baptiste Augustin (1759-1832), Pinchon exhibited at the with Mark Brady & Co., New York.
Salon from 1795 to 1844. In 1800, the artist left France to work at the court
LITERATURE:
of Saint Petersburg, where he painted numerous Russian personalities,
O. Jouvenet, Hippolyte, Auguste et Paul Flandrin. Une fraternité picturale au
including the Empress Elizabeth Alexeyevna(L. R. Schildlof, La Miniature XIXe siècle, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Luxembourg and elsewhere, 1984, p.
en Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 656). A similar portrait of a woman, signed and 275, under no. 187.
dated 'Pinchon 1806', was sold at Christie's, New York, 29 January 2009, lot E. Marchetti, S. Pacoud, ‘Images d’une société’, in Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste.
74. Les Flandrin, artistes et frères, exhib. cat., Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2021,
p. 331, note 19.

Dedicated ‘to my dear friend’, this portrait represents the artist Louis Lacuria
(1813-1878), a childhood friend of the Flandrin brothers, having studied
together first at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and later in the studio of
Ingres. Paul Flandrin also executed a portrait of Lacuria’s brother, Clément
(1813-1878), also a painter. The latter drawing, which dates from the same
year as the present work, 1833, is at the Louvre (inv. RF 2794; see Jouvenet,
op. cit., no. 187, ill.).

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