Portrait De Gentilhomme, hst 18th century, gilded oak frame, Henri Millot.

Henri MILLOT ( active between 1699 and 1756 ), portrait of a man in bust form, wearing a red velvet coat, old reupholstery, painting and frame restored, canvas: height 82 cm, width: 65 cm, in its period carved and gilded oak frame: height 102 cm, width:87 cm, early 18th century, all in perfect condition.

Little is known about this major painter of the first half of the 18th century, a pupil of Nicolas de Largillière before 1699, from whom he borrowed vocabulary and colors.
We do know that Millot signed, as a friend, the marriage contract of Largillière's cousin Marie-Claude Hermant with Georges Rœttiers, on May 18, 1711. After a stay in Munich around 1721-1724, from which we keep the Portrait of Duke Gustave-Adolphe des Deux-Ponts (1722 Musée de Schleissheim), then in Strasbourg around 1730, Millot seems to have settled back in Paris, where he exhibited two portraits at the Salon de l'Académie de Saint-Luc in 1756.

Bibliography

Dominique Brême, "Largillierre", exhibition catalog, Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, October 14, 2003-January 30, 2004, p. 56.
Dominique Brême in L'art du portrait sous Louis XIV, dossier de l'art, n°37, Paris, Somogy, April 1997, p.50.
In public collections
Portrait of Jean de La Fontaine, in the Museum of Foreign Art, Helsinki.
Portrait d'homme, 1699, Sotheby's Monaco sale, June 23, 1985, lot. 295.
Portrait d'une dame et de sa fille, c. 1700, Sale Paris, comte A. de Ganay, May 16-18, 1907, lot. 213.
Portrait d'une jeune femme, 1716, Paris, Galleria, December 7, 1976, lot. 32.
Portrait of a woman holding a mask, c. 1728/30, Pittfield, The Berkshire Museum.
Portrait of Duke Gustave-Adolphe des Deux-Ponts, 1722, Schleissheim Castle.

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