The Comtesse de Cossé in a Salon by Louis de Carmontelle
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The Comtesse de Cossé in a Salon

Louis de Carmontelle · after 1768

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Possibly, the estate of the artist; sold, April 17-18, 1807 [according to Joachim 1977]. Sold by Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, to the Art Institute, 1956.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Minneapolis, Minn., University of Minnesota, "One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists," 1961, cat. 9.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 52.
  • 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, pp. 58-59, cat. 49 (ill.).
  • 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. 13 (ill.).
  • Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 36-37, cat. 13 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 1B5.
  • Margot Bernstein, "Carmontelle's Telltale Marks and Materials," Metropolitan Museum Journal (2020), pp. 142 and 144

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