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Portrait of a Young Boy with Blue Eyes

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau · c. 1750

Provenance

Ownership history

Camille Groult (died 1908) Paris, by 1885 [Paris 1885]; probably by descent to his son Jean Groult (died 1951); probably by descent to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult, Paris [New York 1995]. Private collection, Paris [New York 1995]. Sold by P. & D. Colnaghi, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, "Société des Pastellistes Français: Exposition retrospective," April 1885, cat. 75.
New York, Colnaghi, "An Exhibition of Master Drawings," 3-26 May 1995, cat. 33.

Literature

Albert Flament, “La Collection Groult,” L”Illustration (Paris, 18 January 1908), p. 54 (ill.).
Fluois de Fourcaud, “Le pastel et les pastellistes français au XVIIIe siècle,” La Revue de l’Art Ancien et Moderne (September 1908), no. 1
Haldane Macfall, The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1909), p. 111.
Leandre Vaillat and Paul Ratois de Limay, J.-B. Perronneau: sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1909), no. 11 (ill.).
Leandre Vaillat and Paul Ratois de Limay, J.-B. Perronneau: sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris and Brussels, 1923), p. 18, no. 125.
The Burlington Magazine, 137 (June 1995) p. xxxii (ill.).
Alan Wintermute, The French Portrait 1550-1850 (New York, 1996), pp. 44-5, pl. 10.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument:’ The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 11 and 48-9, no. 19 (ill.).

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