File:Alexis-Simon Belle - Portrait of a child.png

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Alexis Simon Belle: "Portrait of a boy as Mars, half-length, in a richly embroidered dress and black feather headdress, holding a spear and a helmet"   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Alexis Simon Belle  (1674–1734)  wikidata:Q1383440
 
Alexis Simon Belle
Alternative names
Alexis-Simon Belle
Description French painter, miniaturist, pastellist and drawer
Date of birth/death 12 January 1674 Edit this at Wikidata 21 November 1734 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q1383440
Title
"Portrait of a boy as Mars, half-length, in a richly embroidered dress and black feather headdress, holding a spear and a helmet"
Description
English: Portrait of a boy
label QS:Lit,"Ritratto di ragazzo"
label QS:Lhu,"Fiú portréja"
label QS:Let,"Poisi portree"
label QS:Lru,"Портрет мальчика"
label QS:Lde,"Porträt eines Knaben"
label QS:Lpt,"Retrato de um menino"
label QS:Lbe,"Партрэт хлопчыка"
label QS:Lfa,"چهرهٔ یک پسر"
label QS:Lsl,"Portret dečka"
label QS:Lpl,"Portret chłopca"
label QS:Luk,"Портрет хлопчика"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van een jongen"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of a boy"
label QS:Lmk,"Портрет на момче"
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait d'un garçon"
with a blue sash, presumably Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Brittany (1707-1712), elder brother of Louis XV of France (1710-1774).
  • Identification proposed by user Ecummenic (talk) based on the comparison with some portraits of the Dauphin Louis (see images below) and the presence of a sash of the Order of the Holy Spirit.
Date turn of the 17/18th century
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 71.1 cm (27.9 in); width: 59.4 cm (23.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,71.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,59.4U174728
Object history

Provenance:

  • Auction: Christie's, London, 7 July 1995, lot 313, Anonymous sale (auctioned as "Portrait of a girl as Minerva with a black feather head-dress") [1] [2]
  • Anonymous owner
  • Auction: Christie's, London, 7 December 2011, Old Master & British Paintings (Day Sale), lot 171, to the present owner (auctioned as "Portrait of a boy as Mars, half-length, in a richly embroidered dress and black feather headdress, holding a spear and a helmet" by Alexis-Simon Belle) [3] [4] [5]
Source/Photographer https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Portrait-of-a-boy-as-Mars/055CA8441BE71663
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