Portrait of Armand de Chastelet, marquis de Puységur (1751-1825)
period print · 1780
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SUMMARY
18th-century French-school pastel portrait of a young military officer in armour with a blue sash. Identification basis: the Wikimedia Commons file record names the sitter as 'Armand de Chastelet, marquis de Puységur (1751-1825)', whose title and dates match the magnetizer Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis de Puységur (BnF, VIAF, GND, LoC authority records, 1751-1825). The image is marked public domain on Commons; its stated source is a Coutau-Bégarie (Paris) sale, an auction house rather than a holding institution, so provenance is to a Commons upload, not an institutional catalogue.
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The portrait is the case’s actor image for the practitioner. The Commons record identifies the sitter as the marquis de Puységur (1751-1825); the title and life dates match the magnetizer documented across the BnF, VIAF, GND, and Library of Congress authority files. The work is an 18th-century French-school pastel of a young officer in armour, consistent with Puységur’s standing as an aristocrat and military officer before his 1784 turn to magnetism. The file is marked public domain; its provenance is an auction-house sale recorded on Wikimedia Commons rather than a holding institution.