Portrait of Antoine TORRENT
Fine Arts
Inventory number
2020.12.3.8.FA.GR.C1747.FRAttribution:
Donatien NONNOTTE (French, Besançon 1708 - 1785 Lyon)Description
Framed pastel drawing representing the alderman of Lyon, Antoine TORRENT, with powdered hair and wearing a ponytail. He is dressed in a French-style habit (typical of winter clothing at the time of Louis XV) in brown silk velvet, adorned with long and false buttonholes embroidered with gold thread and decorated with buttons covered in the same, worn over an brick color jacket, probably in wool twill, also ornated with long and false embroidered buttonholes. A blue drape (King in France symbolique color) completes the composition and recalls his function as municipal councilor.Antoine TORRENT was born on February 27, 1718 in Lyon, into a wealthy bourgeois merchant family. Himself a trader, established as a haberdashery in the "Grande rue" in Lyon (one of the most important streets of the city), he became "Evevin" (municipal councilor) in 1734. On July 11, 1747, he married Marie MORIN, the daughter of Vincent MORIN, a prévôt of the merchants of Lyon ( the highest-ranking official in a municipal govemment). This pair of portraits was certainly made for their wedding.
Materials
Pastel on paperCardboard
Glass
Wood frame
Origin
circa 1747 France, probably LyonDimensions
Width : 5 cmLength : 50 cm
Height : 57 cm