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Nicolas de Largillierre
1656-1746
Portrait of Barthélemy-Jean-Claude
Pupil
1729
Oil on canvas
54-1/2 x 41-7/8 in.
Largillierre, who enjoyed a long and successful career as a portraitist, was sought out early in the eighteenth century by important new clients from the provinces of France. One of them was B.-Jean-Claude Pupil, who received two judicial appointments in Lyon after his marriage in 1722 to Marguerite de Sève, the subject of the companion portrait. The artist shows Pupil wearing his wig and legal robes and supporting a book whose gilt title has worn away.