Portrait of Claude Charles Deschamps

1. Mme. Widow R…, of Douai; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 16, 1923, lot 86, to Feral (?) [buyer name acc. annotated sale cat.,National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.]. David David-Weill (1871–1952), Paris, by 1927-at least December 1938 [Jamot 1927; New York 1938]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 10, 1959, lot 101, to Sperling. Sold by Kleinberger and Company, New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, 1964 [collector notes]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Musée du Louvre, August–October 1922.
• New York, Wildenstein and Company, "French XVIII Century Pastels, Water colors and Drawings from the David-Weill Collection," November–December 1938, cat. 9, as Le Chanoine Deschamps.
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 1992.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings," December 11, 1998–March 28, 1999, checklist 30.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 55, cat. 28 (ill.).

• Paul Jamot, “Actualités: Notes sur l’Exposition des Pasteles Français de XVII et XVIII siècles,” Bulletin de l’Art Ancien et Modern (July–August, 1927), p. 209.
• Gabriel Henriot, Collection of David-Weill II (Paris, 1927), p. 33.
• Pastels Français des XVIIp et XVIIIe siècles (Paris, 1927), p. 77.
• Albert Besnard, La Tour: La Vie et l’Oeuvre de l’Artiste (Paris, 1928), p. 139, cat. 97, pl. 80.
• Le Portrait de Watteau a David (Paris, 1958), p. 48.
• Adrian Bury, Maurice-Quentin de la Tour: The Greatest Pastel Portraitist (London, 1971), p. 194.
• Geneviève Monnier, Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins, Pastels: XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles (Paris, 1972), under no. 78.
• Christine Debrie and Xavier Salmon, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour: Princ des pastellistes (Paris, 2000), p. 89 n. 38.

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Portrait of a Man with a Pink

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A Street in Pontoise

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