Description:
Attributed to Charles Herbel (French, 1656-1703)
Portrait of a Gentleman
Signed or inscribed "CAROLUS HERBEL/MAR..." on the portrait cameo held in the sitter's left hand.
Oil on canvas, 38 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. (98.0 x 77.5 cm),framed.
Condition: Lined onto wood panel, retouch, surface bloom, stable craquelure, surface grime.
Provenance: A Massachusetts estate.
N.B. Little is known about Charles Herbel. Born in Nancy, he is listed as a history painter who worked in Vienna for Emperor Leopold the First and in Nancy for the Duke of Lorraine Charles V.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
The stretcher bears an inscription that the portrait was restored by McClee's Galleries, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, in 1971, and also bears a label from McClee's Galleries on the stretcher.
The later part of the inscription on the cameo on the recto may say "MARQUE."
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