Yale University Art Gallery

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Artist: Louis Francis de Paul Binsse
Title: Portrait of Man facing Left
Medium: oil on wood? (mini store)
Size: 80 x 66mm
Credit Line: Gift of Henry La Farge

Acc. No.: 1984.71.1

No.
DOLL & RICHARDS.

2 Park Street,
BOSTON.

THESE TWO MINIATURES WERE PAINTED BY MY GRANDFATHER, LOUIS BINNSE. AT WHAT DATE I DO NOT KNOW; BUT PROBABLY BEFORE 1830, PERHAPS AS EARLY AS 1806. THEY WERE TO GIVEN TO ME BY MY GRANDMOTHER ALONG WITH A SKETCH BOOK, WHICH IS IN NEWPORT, DATING EARLY IN THE CENTURY, WHEREIN ARE DRAWINGS OF PLACES AND NOTABLY THE SCHOOL HOUSE OF GRAND-UNCLE BANCEL AND GENERAL MOREAU. MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD ME THAT THESE TWO PICTURES WERE, SHE BELIEVED, COPIES OF FAMILY PORTRAITS. AS I HAVE NEVER COME ACROSS THEM THEY MIGHT HAVE BELONGED TO MY GRANDFATHER'S BROTHER, DE ST VICTOR, BUT THIS IS MERE TRADITION STATED BY MY GRANDMOTHER, AND THE PORTRAITS MAY HAVE BELONGED TO THE FAMILY OF THE FIRST WIFE. I USED TO HAVE GRANDFATHER'S IVORY PALETTE, WITH COLOURS, IN NEWPORT AND IT MAY BE THERE NOW.

1984.71.1

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