2-750-952 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem, 1750, (1903). 'M. Lenormant De Tournehem, Directeur Des Bâtiments Du Roi'. Portrait of French financier de Tournehem (1684-1751), director of the King's Buildings (a division of Department of the household of the Kings of France, responsible for building works at the King's residences in and around Paris). He was also the legal guardian of Madame de Pompadour. In the background is the Medici Vase, now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. After a painting by Louis Tocqué, in the collection of the palace of Versailles, France. From "La Revue De L'Art Ancien et Moderne" - Volume XIV, July-December 1903, [Paris, 1903]