Lot 217: HENRI MILLOT

HENRI MILLOT ACTIVE IN PARIS CIRCA 1699 - 1730 PORTRAIT OF A LADY, SEATED ON A CANAPÉ, HOLDING A MASK IN HER OUTSTRETCHED HAND inscribed (transcribed from the original canvas?) on the reverse: H R . Millet pinxit./ 1710 oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood frame 148.5 by 115 cm.; 58 1/2 by 45 1/4 in.

Millot was apprenticed to Nicolas de Largillière in Paris before 1699, and Largillière would remain his strongest influence until the end of his career. Although a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Paris, his peripatetic career saw him travel widely in Europe; to Munich, for example, from 1721-24, and to Strasbourg in 1730. His small oeuvre consists in its entirety of portraits, examples of which are to be found in the Château de Schleissheim and the Museum of Foreign Art, Helsinki.