Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man

about 1750
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Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Portrait of a Man, about 1750. Black and white chalk with touches of pastel on grayish-brown paper; 10 ¾ × 8 ¾ in. (27.30 × 22.22 cm). Denver Art Museum: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection, 2019.571

Artist
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, French, 1704 - 1788
Object
drawing
Medium
black and white chalk with touches of pastel on grayish-brown paper
Dimensions
image height: 10 3/4 in, 27.3050 cm; image width: 8 3/4 in, 22.2250 cm; frame height: 16 1/4 in, 41.2750 cm; frame width: 14 1/4 in, 36.1950 cm; frame depth: 2 1/4 in, 5.715 cm
Credit Line
The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
Accession Number
2019.571
Known Provenance
(Francois) Huppolyte Walferdin [1795-1880], Paris; his estate sale, 1880. Jacques-Antoine Doucet [1853-1929], Paris; acquired at his sale, 1912 by "Stettiner" (presumably the Paris dealer, Henri Stettiner) Gabriel Cognacq [1880-1951], Paris, as of 1928; his estate sale, 1952 Private Collection, as of late 1952 Wildenstein; acquired from by Esmond Bradley Martin [1941–2018], Kenya, 2014; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 2019.
Exhibition History
  • Exposition Universelle: notice historique et analytique des peintures, sculptures...dessins, etc., exposes dans les galeries des portraits nationaux, Palais de Trocadero, Paris, 1878, no. 542
  • "Portraits francais"—Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 06/26/1945–10/31/1945, no. 66
  • "Pastel and Gouache Drawings of the Eighteenth Century"—William H. Schab Gallery, New York, 10/17-1969–11/15/1969, no. 6. Illustrated

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