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Self-Portrait with a Visor
Jean Siméon Chardin · c. 1776
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly the estate of the artist; possibly by descent to the artist's wife; possibly the estate of the artist's wife; possibly, Juste Chardin (the artist's brother), to Aug. 12, 1794 [his estate inventory]. Camille Groult (1837-1908), Paris, by 1899 [Dilke 1899]; by descent to his son, Jean Groult (1868-1951); sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Mar. 21, 1952, Groult sale, lot 64. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec. 8, 1983, lot 29. Sold by E. V. Thaw, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 86-87, cat. 34 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1988-May 31, 1990 (installation).
- New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 26 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
Literature
Published references
- Lady E. F. S. Dilke, "Chardin et ses Oeuvres à Potsdam et à Stockholm," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 22 (1899), p. 394.
- Georges Wildenstein, Chardin (Paris, 1933), no. 652.
- Daniel Wildenstein, Chardin (Paris, 1963), p. 238.
- Pierre Rosenberg, Chardin: New Thoughts (Lawrence, Kansas, 1983), pp. 34, and 36-37.
- Pierre Rosenberg, Tout l'Oeuvre Peint de Chardin (Paris, 1983), no. 194A (ill.)
- The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1983-84), p. 19, no. 50 (ill.).
- Suzanne McCullagh and Pierre Rosenberg, "The Supreme Triumph of the Old Painter: Chardin's Final Work in Pastel," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 12 (1985), pp. 43-59 (ill.).
- James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 210 (ill.).
- Pierre Rosenberg, Chardin (Paris, 1999), no. 197A (ill.).
- Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 135 (ill.).
- The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), p. 298 (ill.).
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