THOMAS BLUGET DE VALDENUIT
(American, born France, 1763 – 1846)

Portrait of Mr. Coddington

Signed and dated, lower left: “Valdenuit / 1797.”

Pencil, charcoal, and white chalk on pink prepared paper
18 ½ x 13 ⅝ inches (47 x 34.6 cm)

Provenance:   

By descent in the family of the sitter, Woodbridge, New Jersey

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Schwartz

Pook & Pook, Inc., Downington, PA, 12 May 2022, lot 1594

Private Collection, New York.

Literature:       

Ellen G. Miles, Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America, Washington DC, 1994, pp. 97, 275, cat. no. 185, illustrated.