Description
Bust-length, three-quarters to right portrait of a man identified in the engraved inscription as Duc Fernand Marie de Cloiseul, with white hair, wearing a black coat with black velvet collar, white vest, and high white stock to chin.
Provenance
Julio Branco, Paris [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; A. J. Fink, Baltimore, 1957 [mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
Inscriptions
[Inscription] Engraved on front, bottom in cursive: Duc Fernand Marie de Clioisenl [sic] / Aide de Camp / to / Louis Philippe / by / Maynard; [Monogram] On reverse, in hair
Credit
Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963