Portrait of Nicolas Doxat de Démoret in the manner of Jean-Antoine Watteau
£1,250
A Study of Nicolas Doxat de Démoret (1682-1738)
Coloured chalks heightened with white on buff paper. Presented mounted within a gilt-wood frame.
Height 50 cm (19.75 inches) including frame
Width 40 cm (16 inches) including frame
Swiss. Circa 1730s
Nicolas Doxat de Démoret also Nicolas Doxat von Morez (Yverdon, Switzerland, 3 November 1682 Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 20 March 1738) was a Swiss general in the army of the Habsburg Monarchy. He is also known as the engineer who rebuilt the Kalemegdan Fortress and as the first foreign Belgrade urban planner and builder. Despite his successes at the siege of Belgrade in 1735, was accused of treason and sentenced to beheading in 1738
Provenance
Collection of Richard Cosway, London (1740-1821);
Collection of Sir Michael Duff, Bt., before 1974 (according to a label on the reverse)
A similar drawing of the same sitter is in Zentralbibliothek, Zürich
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