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Self-Portrait
Provenance
Possibly Ange Laurent de Lalive de Jully, Paris; sold Paris, March 5 (sale postponed until May 2-14), 1770, no. 54, “Le Portrait de ce Peintre tenant un porte-crayon, il est à mi corps & peint sur toile de 2 pieds 6 pouces de haut, sur 2 pieds de large” [81 x 64.8 cm], possibly to Métra (or Mettra), for 130 livres [annotated cat., Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Smirnoff Gallery, Moscow [according to Paris 1878 exh. cat.]. Alfred Edwards, Paris by 1878 [lent to Paris 1878]; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 25, 1905, no. 28 (ill.) to Ducrey, for Fr. 18,200 [annotated cat. in Frick Art Reference Library]. Jacquinot, Paris, from the 1920s [letter of 7 April 1987 from R. Pardo in curatorial file]; sold by Jacquinot to Galerie Pardo, Paris, 1987 [letter cited above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1987.
Exhibition history
Paris, Palais du Trocadéro, Exposition Universelle de 1878, no. 594 (cat. published as Notice historique et analytique des peintures, sculptures, tapisseries, miniatures, émaux, dessins, etc., by Henry Jouin, Paris, 1879).
Publications
Pierre Rosenberg in Pittura francese nelle collezioni pubbliche fiorentine, exh. cat., Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 1977, p. 45, under no. 12. Myra Nan Rosenfeld in Largillierre and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait, exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1981, pp. 43, 48, 51-52 under nos. 1, 2 (version 3). Georges de Lastic, “Largillierre à Montréal,” Gazette des Beaux Arts 6th ser., 102 (1983), p. 37. Georges de Lastic, “Propos sur Nicolas de Largillierre en marge d’une exposition,” Revue de l’art, no. 61 (1983), p. 74. Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1986-1987, Chicago, 1987, p. 56, pl. 5. James N. Wood and Katherine C. Lee, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988, pp. 9, 38, ill. Sally Ruth May, Art Institute of Chicago. The Essential Guide, ed. James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, Chicago, 1993, p. 138, 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. 90-93 ill. J[oseph[ B[aillio] in Philip Conisbee et al., The Collections of the National Gallery of Art, French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century, Washington, D.C., 2009, pp. 300, 302 n. 5.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Nicolas de Largillière (French, 1656–1746)
- Date
- c. 1725
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 81.1 × 64.8 cm (31 15/16 × 25 1/2 in.); Framed: 101.6 × 87.7 × 10.2 cm (40 × 34 1/2 × 4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Accession no.
- 1987.57
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