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Self-Portrait
Maurice Quentin de Latour · c. 1737
Provenance
Ownership history
- Carrier, Paris; sold, Paris, 1875, lot 10. Mme. Becq de Fouquières, Paris, by 1908 [Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1908]. David David-Weill (1871-1952), Paris, by 1912 [Société de reproduction des dessins de maitres 1912]; consigned to Wildenstein and Company, New York, by 1938 [according to Frankfurter]. Sold by French and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1959.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, "Les Maîtres du 18ème Siècle: Cent Pastels," 1908, cat. 29.
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "French 18th-Century Drawings from the David-Weill Collection," November-December 1938, cat. 8.
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 50, pl. XXII.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 92-93, cat. 46 (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. 57, cat. 46 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Literature
Published references
- Henry Lapauze, Les Pastels de Quentin de La Tour (Paris, 1905), p. 103 (ill.).
- "L’Exposition des Cent Pastels," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, II (Paris, 1908), pp. 7 and 9 (ill.).
- Société de reproduction des dessins de maîtres, Les preparations de M.-Q. de La Tour, conservées dans les musées et collections particulières, réproduites et accompagnées de notes critiques (Paris, 1912).
- Élie Fleury and Gaston Brière, Catalogue des Pastels de M.-Q. de la Tour (Paris, 1920), pp. 31-32.
- "Collection David-Weill," L’Amour de ‘Art, VI (January 1925), p. 11 (ill.).
- Gabriel Henriot, Collection David-Weill, II (Paris, 1927), pp. 25-26 (ill.).
- Albert Besnard, Latour: La Vie et l’Oeuvre de l’Artiste (Paris, 1928), p. 149, no. 246, fig. 7.
- Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Draftsmen of the Dix-Huitième: Pastels and Watercolors from the David-Weill Collection," Artnews, XXXVII:6 (November 5, 1938), p. 11 (ill. on cover).
- Élie Fleury and Gaston Brière, Collection Maurice-Quentin de la Tour (Saint-Quentin, 1954), p. 33.
- Hugh Edwards, "Two Drawings by Maurice Quentin de la Tour," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 55:1 (March 1961), pp. 2-4.
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 34, no. 1G3.
- Louise S. Richards, "A Study for a Pastel Portrait of Jacques Dumont Le Romain by Maurice Quentin de la Tour," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (December 1984), pp. 344-45, fig. 5.
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