Jean III de TROY (1638 - 1691) - Lot 142

Jean III de TROY (1638 - 1691) Portrait of Françoise Angelique de la Motte Houdancourt , duchesse d'Aumont Canvas H_90 cm L_71 cm Provenance : - Paris, Hôtel Drouot, March 22, 1983, lot 21; - Drouot Montaigne, Maître Kohn, November 10, 1998, lot 45. Our painting is to be compared with Portrait d'Isabeau de Bonzi, circa 1666, now in the Musée Fabre de Montpellier. Jean de TROY, known as TROY de MONTPELLIER, or Jean TROY, or Jean III de TROY, was born in 1638 in TOULOUSE and died in 1691 in MONTPELLIER. Eldest brother of François de TROY, painter and draftsman, and eldest son and pupil of Antoine I de TROY, Jean de TROY divided his time between his studios in TOULOUSE and MONTPELLIER, where he ran a painting academy, sculpture, engraving and architecture (1679-1687), maintained by the States of Languedoc. His drawings are (source: sale catalog Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Maître Claude Aguttes, March 30, 2011, lot 313, experts Cabinet Turquin). Expert: Cabinet Turquin