Description

NICOLAS BENJAMIN DELAPIERRE

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN WITH A CORNETTE

NICOLAS BENJAMIN DELAPIERRE

The Red Cross 1739 – 1802 The Red Cross

Oil on canvas, signed “NBDLP / 1781.”

60 x 50 cm / 23.6 x 19.7 inch, with frame 74 x 64 cm / 29.1 x 25.2 inch

ORIGIN

Christie’s, Paris, The Collector: Le Goût Français, 24 November 2021, lot 621 (as « NICOLAS BENJAMIN DELAPIERRE (? VERS 1739-1802 PARIS) Portrait of a woman with a cornette »)

Tajan, Paris, Old Paintings, February 19, 1999, lot 127 (as « DELAPIERRE, Woman with a lace bonnet »)

Paris, Heim Gairac Gallery. The Tajan Catalog (1999) has information for « Woman with a Lace Bonnet [Woman with a Lace Bonnet], 1779 » but no image. The image in the Louvre file is labeled « De la Pierre, Documentation Heim-Gairac », and no other information, but it appears to be the same painting.

LITERATURE

Benoît Berger Nicolas-Benjamin DELAPIERRE (ca 1739- Lyon, 1802): Face(s) of a portrait painter, La Lettre de la MiniatureN° 11. March 2012. Editorial: ©Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard.

Berger Benoît, “In the footsteps of the painter Nicolas-Benjamin Delapierre”, Official municipal bulletin [of the city of Lyon], 5710, October 1, 2007