Conrad Detlev, Count von Dehn

Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière) French

1724

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Sumptuously dressed according to the latest French fashion, Dehn was sent to Paris in 1723 by the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel to congratulate Louis XV on his ascension to the throne. Largillière must have painted the portrait after the diplomat’s farewell audience at Versailles on November 30, since it includes gifts he subsequently received: a bejeweled boîte à portrait, with a miniature of the king, as well as an illustrated volume of Louis XIV medals.

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Title: Conrad Detlev, Count von Dehn
Artist: Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière) (French, Paris 1656–1746 Paris)
Date: 1724
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 36 1/4 × 28 15/16 in. (92 × 73.5 cm)
Framed: 42 1/16 × 34 15/16 in., 634.86oz. (106.8 × 88.7 cm, 18 kg)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig, Kunstmuseum des Landes Niedersachsen [Lower Saxony State Museum of Art] (GG 521)
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts