115. [French school]

Portrait of Emmanuel de St-Albert.

France, 1767

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.

€ 400 / 500

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