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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Portrait of a Lady
    Joseph Siffred Duplessis. Portrait of a Lady, c. 1787. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001020

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    Portrait of a Lady

    by Joseph Siffred Duplessis

    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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