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Portrait of Madame Chardin
Jean Siméon Chardin · 1776
Provenance
Ownership history
- Jean-Louis David, Paris; sold, Paris, March 18-19, 1868, lot 12 [invoice]. M. de Loriol, Geneva [invoice]. Marquis de Biron, Paris [invoice]. Forsyth Wickes (1876–1964), Paris, New York, and Newport, RI., by 1933-at least 1961 [Wildenstein 1933; Richmond 1961]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1962.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "J. B. S. Chardin," 1926, cat. 11.
- Copenhagen, Palais de Charlottenberg, August 25- October 6, 1935, cat. 267.
- New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "French Painting and Sculpture of the XVIII Century," November 6, 1935-January 5, 1936, cat. 26.
- Pittsburgh, Pa., Carnegie Institute, "French Painting 1100-1900," October 18-December 2, 1952, cat. 86.
- Baltimore Museum of Art, "Man and His Years," October 19-November 21, 1954, cat. 84.
- New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, "Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni," May 8-June 18, 1956, cat. 194.
- Richmond, Va., Museum of Fine Arts, "Treasures in America," January 13-March 5, 1961.
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 46, pl. XXIII.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 60-61, cat. 29 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 51, cat. 38 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "European Portraits 1600-1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 8-September 11, 1978, cat. 27.
- Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Chardin," 1979; traveled to the Cleveland Museum of Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Literature
Published references
- Georges Wildenstein, Chardin (Paris, 1933), no. 666 (ill.).
- G. P. F. Grappe, "La Peinture," Amour de l'Art, XVI (July 1935), p. 241 (ill.).
- Herbert Furst, "Chardin Yesterday and Today," Connoisseur, 106 (July 1940), p. 17 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, LVI (Winter 1962/63) (ill.).
- J. Vallery-Radot, French Drawings (New York, 1964), no. 36 (ill.).
- Georges Wildenstein, (revised by Daniel Wildenstein), Chardin (New York, 1969), no. 374 (ill.).
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1B7.
- 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. 5-15, and 46, fig. 3.
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