Portrait of M. Louis Silvestre by Maurice Quentin de Latour
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Portrait of M. Louis Silvestre

Maurice Quentin de Latour · c. 1753

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Camille Groult (died 1908), Paris [invoice]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1958.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "For the Connoisseur," 1956, cat. 20.
  • Minneapolis, Minn., University Gallery, University of Minnesota, "The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Masters," 1961, cat. 51.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 51.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 94-95, cat. 47 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
  • Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 11 (ill.).
  • Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 32-33, cat. 11 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, September 30, 1988-May 8, 1990.

Literature

Published references

  • A. Besnard and Georges Wildenstein, La Tour (Paris, 1928), pl. LXXXVIII, (ill.).
  • Art News, LV (October, 1946), p. 6.
  • Art Quarterly, XXII (Summer 1959), p. 196, (ill.).
  • Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LVII (February 1961), p. 37 (ill.).
  • Hugh Edwards, "Two Drawings by Maurice Quentin de La Tour," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 55 (March 1961), pp. 2-4 (ill.).
  • A. Frankfurter, "Il bon disegno from Chicago," Art News, LXII (November 1963), pp. 28-31 (ill.).

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