369. Portrait of the Viscount D'Argenson

1656, Paris, Franţa - 1746, Paris, Franţa

Estimate

EUR 2.000 - 3.000

Sold

EUR 3.750

Session

Tue, 5 February 2019 20:30

Dimensions

width 59.5 cm, height 70.5 cm, custom 59,5x70,5

Description

oil on canvas

Research information

The work is classified as belonging in the Treasury category of the Movable Cultural National Heritage, by order no 2510 of 24.01.2003 of the Minister of Culture.

PROVENANCE

30s-50s, the collection of Romanian diplomat Basil Stoica (1889 - 1959), close friend of Thomas Masaryk and Ionel I.C. Brătianu, skilled in 14 foreign languages, a fighter for the founding and consecration of the Greater Romania, president of the National League of Romanians in America in 1918, minister plenipotentiary in Bulgaria and Albania (1930-1936), the Netherlands (1937-1939), Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1939-1945), negotiator for the cause of Romania as a co-belligerent country at the Paris Peace Conference in 1946; deceased at Jilava after 9 years of detention; removed from the possession of the diplomat's family by the National Museum of Art of Romania through confiscation in 1977; in 2009, after the fall of the communist regime, following a long line of trials, restored to the diplomat's heirs.

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