Portrait of Jean-Antoine de Mesmes, Comte d'Avaux. 1713.
After the original by F. de Troy.
Engraving. 310 × 217.
There is the inscription along the perimeter of the oval frame: JOAN. ANT. DEMESMES COMES D’AVAUX, REGI. A SANCT. COUNCIL. SUPR. GAIL. SENATOS PRINCEPS REG. ORD. COMMEND.; below the frame, on the left: De Troyes pinx.; on the right: Thomassin sculpt. Reg. 1713; below: 1713.
Inv. G 375.
Troy, François de (1645, Toulouse – 1730, Paris) – French portrait painter and engraver, a representative of a great dynasty of artists.
Mesmes, Jean-Antoine de, comte d'Avaux (1661 – 1723) –son of academician Jean-Jacques de Mesmes (1640-1688). After his father's death, he inherited the seat of the president in the parliament of Paris. In 1712 he was appointed Prime Minister of the Parliament. Member of the French Academy (since 1710).
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