Marquise
de Castellane
Philip
Alexius de Laszlo
-- British painter (1869-1937)
c. 1920?
Owner"
Medium"
Size?
Jpg:
Friend of the JSS Gallery
Here is [possibly] the Marquise de
Castellane. I am struggling with the identification on this
one.
It might be Anna Gould, who married Boniface, Marquis de Castellane, in
1895. If it is, it would have to date between 1899 (when,
according
to Owen Rutter, de Laszlo painted his first french subjects, the Comte
and Comtesse Jean de Castellane) and 1908 (when Anna, who had divorced
Boni in 1905, re-married, and would no longer have been known as
Marquise
de Castellane. So maybe in the date spot you can just put c.
1899/1908?
Carolus-Duran
French
Artist
(1837-1917)
Anna
Gould
Date?
From: M Owens
<MO w ens35@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003
No way does Laszlo's
"Marquise de
Castellane" depict Anna Gould de Castellane, unless the artist was
being
laughably complimentary. Anna Gould was famously unattractive, for one:
short, sallow, with crinkly hair and rather simian in appearance. For
another,
given the supposed date of the portrait, this identification must be
wrong,
since Count Boni de Castellane (1867-1932) didn't become the marquis de
Castellane until 1917, when his father, Antoine, died, and by that
time,
he was already long divorced from Anna Gould and did not remarry.
Based on this
information, as well
as the hair, pose, and draperies as compared to Laszlo's other female
portraits,
I think the portrait must be closer to circa 1920. Still, the
attribution
remains difficult, because there does not appear to have been any
marquise
de Castellane between Antoine de Castellane (who died in 1917) and Boni
de Castellane (who died in 1932). Could Antoine de Castellane have
remarried,
after the death of Boni's mother? Or could the subject of the portrait
be Boni's beautiful half-American daughter in law, Yvonne Patenotre,
the
wife of Boniface, later marquis de Castellane (1897-1946), his eldest
son
by Anna Gould? This would perhaps put the circa date closer to 1928,
perhaps,
but surely this is better than presuming that it depicts Anna Gould.
FYI: There are three
marquis de Castellane
titles in France, according to the
Bottin Mondain, the French
nobiliary
index ...
Marquis de Castellane
Marquis de Castellane
Esparron
Marquis de Castellane
Majastres
all are shorthanded,
casually referred
to, as Marquis de Castellane ... which
can be confusing ... will
keep digging
...
From: Machelle Dame
(mach elle. da me@usbank.com)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004
I have
been reading your comments regarding the Count Boni de
Castellane and Anna Gould. How hard was it to research the two?
I
have recently been given old family photos and documents from my
fathers side. I have the divorce decree between the Count and
Anna,
photographs of him and negitives and I think a picture of her.
Your
description of her fits the person in the photograph and I have not
been able to place her as being anyone else. They were my fathers
foster mothers parents and I have been trying to connect the dots.
Very truly, Machelle
Notes
Image from Patrick Chaleyssin's Le
Peinture Mondaine de 1870, a 1960 (Bibliotheque de l'Image, 1993.)
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