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Portrait of a Lady
Provenance
Possibly Michel Nicholas Benisovich by1948 (died 1963) [acc. to note on the photocopy of the reverse of an old photograph from Wildenstein, in curatorial file]. Wildenstein Gallery, Paris [stock no. 50198]. Guy Charfnadel, Galerie Romane, Paris by 1975 [acc. to commission book 1970-85, in Heim Gallery records, Getty Research Institute]; Heim Gallery, London; sold to the Art Institute, 1975.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth–Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, cat. 12. The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300–1900, 1986, cat. 51.
Publications
The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1974–75 (Chicago, 1975), pp. 12, 13 (ill.), 31. J. Patrice Marandel, “A Portrait by Duplessis,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 70, no. 1 (1976), pp. 2–3 (ill., cover ill.). Pierre Rosenberg and Marion C. Stewart, French Paintings, 1500–1825: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (San Francisco, 1987), pp. 161–162 (ill.). Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 54–56, (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Joseph Siffred Duplessis (French, 1725–1802)
- Date
- c. 1787
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73 × 59 cm (28 3/4 × 23 1/4 in.); Framed: 88.3 × 76.6 × 5.1 cm (34 3/4 × 30 1/8 × 2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Arma Wyler
- Accession no.
- 1975.137
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