Portrait of Doctor Théodore Tronchin (1709 – 1781)
Oil on canvas : 80,6 X 65,2 cm
Signed and dated bottom middle “C.Troost.1735”
Frame : 87,6 X 71,2 cm
Provenance: - Tronchin Collections at the Bessinge estate near Geneva.
- In 1938 Xavier Givaudan (1867-1966) aquired the 50-hectare Bessinge estate and its entire collection.
- Then by inheritance to the previous owner.
- Online sale at Piguet Geneva, 19/03/25
Bibliography: Renée Loche, "Catalogue of the Collections of François Tronchin," in: Genava, Vol. XXII, Museum of Art and History, Geneva, 1974, p. 190, no. 14, b/w ill. p. 193.
Exhibited: Musée Rath, From Geneva to the Hermitage, the François Tronchin Collections, Geneva, 1974