Lot n° 198
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2000 - 3000
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Léon-Pascal Glain (1723-1789)
Portrait of Louise Cosseron (c.1700-1785), née Estienne
Pastel on paper
54 x 44 cm (on view)
Signed and dated, halfway up on the right: Glain 1753
Presented in a rich and beautiful Louis XV style frame.
Born in Bayonne, Glain won the second prize at the Ecole de l'Académie in 1744, and the following year, the first prize.
He was a very nomadic portraitist, practicing first in Bordeaux, then Paris, Amsterdam, Naples and Florence.
He was admitted to the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1761 and was close to his fellow pastelists Pierre Allais and Louis Vigée, the sculptor Allegrain, and the patrons Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne and Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre.
Louise Cosseron, daughter of Simon Estienne, "juré vendeur de vins", and sister of François Estienne, merchant and bourgeois of Paris, married Jean-François Cosseron, prosecutor at the Châtelet of Paris under Louis XV, from an ancient family originating from Normandy.
One of their children, François (?-1810), was appointed alderman of the city of Paris, on August 16, 1783, and took the oath, in this capacity, in the hands of His Majesty Louis XVI. On September 7, 1783, he was appointed alderman of the city of Paris and took the oath of office in the hands of His Majesty Louis XVI. He and his descendants, who added the name "de Villenoisy" to their family name, became noblemen. He was also the king's commissioner to the Assembly of the Third Estate, at the Enfants-Rouges.
Among the couple's descendants, we find members of the following families: Bailly, Bergasse, de Buchet, Cosseron de Villenoisy, Dérot, Fabre-Fairet, de Waresquiel.
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