PERRONNEAU, Jean-Baptiste
(b. 1715, Paris, d. 1783, Amsterdam)

Monsieur Tassin de La Renardière

1765
Pastel on blue paper, 67 x 54 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Indications on the verso identify the sitter as Augustin Tassin de La Renardière, lieutenant in Sologne, and échevin of Orléans in 1777-78, who was later secretary to the king in 1781 and received knighthood.