Alexander Roslin
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Portrait depicting Françoise Marguerite de Sévigné, Countess de Grignan (1646-1705)
Canvas 60 x 49 cm. Executed 1753. Richly carved and gilded original frame in oak.
Provenance
Count Carl Gustaf Tessins collection, Åkerö castle, listed in the estate after Tessin 1770.
Count Fredrik Sparre 1770 (according to Nationalmuseum exhibition catalogue 2007).
Possibly the family Wachtmeisters collection.
Amanuens Carl U. Palm, Stockholm (before 1954, according to Lundberg 1957).
Mr Martin Carlsson, Enskede, Sweden (before 1966, according to Lundberg 1957);
Thereafter in a private Swedish Collection.
Exhibitions
Malmö Museum, Alexander Roslin, 1962, catalogue no 8a;
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Alexander Roslin, 2007-2008, catalogue no 19.
Literature
Olof Granberg, Svenska konstsamlingarnas historia, volume II, Stockholm 1930, listed at p. 238 from the Åkerö Estate after Count Carl Gustaf Tessin 1770.
Thieme-Becker, "Künstlerlexikon" XXIX, 1935, listed at p. 26 as after Gobert, belonging to C G Tessin.
Gunnar W Lundberg, Roslin - Liv och verk, Malmö 1957, mentioned in volume I, p. 42, ill. in volume II, pl 16, and ill at p. 18 in volume III, listed as catalogue no 57.
Per Bjurström (ed), Carl Gustaf Tessin och konsten, , Stockholm 1970, mentioned at p. 67-68;
Per Bjurström, Roslin, 1993, mentioned at p. 18 and ill. at p. 17;
Magnus Olausson, Alexander Roslin, Nationalmuseums serie ”De stora Mästarna”, 2007, ill. at p. 29.
Magnus Olausson (ed), Alexander Roslin, Nationalmuseum exhibition catalogue no 652, 2007, listed at p. 131 and. ill as plate 189.
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