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File:John Francis Rigaud - Portrait of the artist with his wife and children, in his studio.jpg

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John Francis Rigaud: Portrait of the artist with his wife and children, in his studio  wikidata:Q117864997 reasonator:Q117864997
Artist
John Francis Rigaud  (1742–1810)  wikidata:Q3181529 s:en:Author:John Francis Rigaud
 
John Francis Rigaud
Description English painter and translator
Date of birth/death 18 May 1742 Edit this at Wikidata 6 December 1810 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Turin Warwickshire, England
Work location
Great Britain (1772–1824) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q3181529
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Portrait of the artist with his wife and children, in his studio
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait de l'artiste dans son atelier, avec son épouse et ses enfants"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of the artist with his wife and children, in his studio"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre self-portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Portrait of the artist John Francis Rigaud at his easel in his studio, with his wife and children.
It depicts the artist, John Francis Rigaud, sitting in a chair before a blank canvas, his wife, Mary Williams, to the left holding their infant son Stephen (Stephen Francis Dutilh Rigaud) on her lap with their daughter Betsy to the right and their infant daughter Mary in a cradle to the left. Rigaud is in the act of beginning a painting on the canvas before him, proudly tilting his painter's palette towards the viewer and dipping his brush into the paint.
Depicted people
Date 1782 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 75.5 cm (29.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 63.5 cm (25 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+75.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+63.5U174728
Object history
  • Gifted by the artist to his sister circa 1782, and by descent to her grandson, Adrien Collomb, Geneva.
  • Anonymous sale; American Art Association, New York, 3 November 1927, lot 30, as Attributed to Hyacinthe Rigaud.
  • Anonymous sale; Applebrook Auctions & Estate Sales, New Milford, CT, 24 April 2014, lot 99, as Hyacinthe François Honoré Rigaud.
  • Anonymous sale; Ader, Paris, 22 October 2015, lot 22.
  • Anonymous sale; De Baecque & Associés, Paris, 21 September 2020, lot 33, as After John Francis Rigaud.
  • Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 25 May 2023, lot 82, as John Francis Rigaud
References
  • S.F.D. Rigaud and W. L. Pressly, 'Facts and recollections of the 19th century in a memoir of John Francis Rigaud, Esq. R.A.', The Volume of the Walpole Society, 1984, L, p. 68-69, fig 4.
  • L. Taylor, 'A rediscovered Self-portrait by JF Rigaud (1742–1810): The art of family affection in 18th-century England', The British Art Journal, 2015, XVI, pp. 50-55.
  • https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-6423985
Source/Photographer Christie's

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