Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Écotier (1753–1821)

Antoine Vestier (French, 1740–1824)

 

Title

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Écotier (1753–1821)

 

Date

1785

 

Medium

Oil on canvas

 

Dimensions

Oval, 31 5/8 x 25 1/8 in. (80.3 x 63.8 cm)

 

Eugène Foulon d'Écotier must have commissioned the portrait to commemorate his appointment in June 1785 as Intendant of Guadeloupe. It was painted prior to his departure for the French colonial island that November. He holds a map of Guadeloupe, and behind him is a book entitled Ordonnances de la Marine, the regulations for administering French colonies. The picture was exhibited by Vestier at the Salon of 1787 and is a fine example of the sort of work on which his reputation was based.

 

Signed and dated (lower right, on map cartouche): vestier / pinxit— / 1785; inscribed: (on book) ORDON[NANCES] / DE LA / MARINE (naval regulations); (on pamphlet) MEMOIR[E] (report); (on map) CARTE REDUITE DES ISLE[S DE] / LA GUADELOUPE / MARIE GALANTE ET LES SAINT[ES] / Dressé au Depon des Pl . . . / POUR LE SERVICE DE . . . / Par Ordre de M. BE . . . (Reduced map of the islands of Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, and Les Saintes, drawn up for the depository of maps [of the naval ministry], for the use of [the king's vessels], by order of M. Be[rryer . . . ] [This inscription is a faithful copy of a cartouche from a map of 1759, with the artist's name and the date substituted for the date of publication.])

 

 

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