Portrait of a Lady by Joseph Siffred Duplessis
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Portrait of a Lady

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · c. 1787

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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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