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Portrait of a Lady
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · c. 1787
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly Michel Nicholas Benisovich by1948 (died 1963) [acc. to note on the photocopy of the reverse of an old photograph from Wildenstein, in curatorial file]. Wildenstein Gallery, Paris [stock no. 50198]. Guy Charfnadel, Galerie Romane, Paris by 1975 [acc. to commission book 1970-85, in Heim Gallery records, Getty Research Institute]; Heim Gallery, London; sold to the Art Institute, 1975.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth–Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, cat. 12.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300–1900, 1986, cat. 51.
Literature
Published references
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1974–75 (Chicago, 1975), pp. 12, 13 (ill.), 31.
- J. Patrice Marandel, “A Portrait by Duplessis,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 70, no. 1 (1976), pp. 2–3 (ill., cover ill.).
- Pierre Rosenberg and Marion C. Stewart, French Paintings, 1500–1825: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (San Francisco, 1987), pp. 161–162 (ill.).
- Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 54–56, (ill.).
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