Detail from a portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Perrault" class="extiw" title="en:Charles Perrault">Charles Perrault</a> (1628-1703), a French architect (oil on canvas; 1.34 x 1.00 m). Lallemand presented this portrait on 13 May 1672, along with his <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berbier_du_Mets_par_Lallemand.jpg" title="File:Berbier du Mets par Lallemand.jpg"><i>Portrait of Gédéon Berbier du Mets</i></a>, in order to gain admittance to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_royale_de_peinture_et_de_sculpture" class="extiw" title="en:Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture">Academy</a>. The names of the sitters were communicated to him on 25 April 1671, so the painting dates to this period. Lallemand worked from a 1665 painting of Charles Perrault by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Le_Brun" class="extiw" title="en:Charles Le Brun">Charles Le Brun</a> (engraved by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Baudet" class="extiw" title="en:Étienne Baudet">Étienne Baudet</a> in 1675).
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Philippe_Lallemand" class="extiw" title="w:en:Philippe Lallemand"><span title="French painter (1636-1716)">Philippe Lallemand</span></a>
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from 25 April 1671 until 13 May 1672 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1671-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1671-04-25T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1672-05-13T00:00:00Z/11</div>
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