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Portrait of Constance Pipelet
Jean Baptiste François Désoria · 1797
Provenance
Ownership history
- Jacques Doucet (died 1929), Paris [according to a letter of September 25, 1939, from Paul M. Byk, Seligmann, Rey, and Co, to Daniel Catton Rich in curatorial files]. Arnold Seligmann, Rey, and Co., New York, by 1939; sold to the Art Institute, 1939.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Salon of 1798 (Year VI of the Republic), Musée central des Arts, no. 118, as Portrait de la citoyenne Pipelet.
- San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Vanity Fair: An Exhibition of Styles of Women's Headdress and Adornment through the Ages, 1942, no. 33, as Portrait of Mme Elisabeth Dunoyer.
- Illinois, Decatur Art Center, Masterpieces of the Old and New World, 1948, no. 8, as Mme Elizabeth Dunoyer.
- Detroit, Institute of Arts, French Painting from David to Courbet, 1950, no. 6, as Portrait of Mme Elisabeth Dunoyer.
- Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, De David à Delacroix: La Peinture française de 1774 à 1830, 1974-75, no. 47, traveled to Detroit and New York, as Madame Elisabeth Dunoyer.
- Chicago, Art Institute, Selected Works from Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Insitute of Chicago, 1976, no. 20, as Madame Elisabeth Dunoyer.
- New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815, December 5, 1989-April 15, 1990 (no cat.).
- Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, "The French Portrait: Revolution to Restoration," 2005, cat. 12, as Portrait of Constance Pipelet.
Literature
Published references
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1941), p. 32.
- Frederick A. Sweet, "Judith by Giovanni Martinelli," Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 36, 1 (1942), p. 6.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961) p. 126.
- Jean Cailleux, "La Grande Peinture, de 1774 à 1830: Le Portrait," Art et curiosité 55 (January-February 1975), p. 23.
- Jean François Garmier, "Mâcon, Musée des Ursulines: Dernières Acquisitions," La Revue du Louvre 29, 5/6 (1979), p.432.
- Aileen Ribeiro, Fashion in the French Revolution, (London, 1988), fig. 83.
- Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago, (Princeton, N.J.. 1996), pp. 49-51, ill.
- Renaud Temperini, "Le néo-classicisme" in La Peinture française, ed. Pierre Rosenberg (Paris, 2001), pp. 294, ill., 295.
- Margaret A. Oppenheimer, The French Portrait: Revolution to Restoration, exh. cat. (Smith College Museum of Art, 2005), pp. 11, 62-64, ill., cat. 12.
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