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Portrait of the Maistre Sisters
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right, in the wet paint with the butt end of the brush: a Génes 1796
Provenance
David Maistre, father of the sitters, Genoa, until 1810 [this and the following provenance based on information provided by François Delestre in a letter of November 21, 1989, to Douglas Druick, in curatorial files]; at his death to Mlle Aubry, cousin of the sitters, Paris, 1810–17. M. Legoux (died 1847); Dijon; at his death to Emil Vincens (died 1850), husband of Rosine, another of the Maistre sisters; at Vincens’s death to Pauline Frat (died 1863), the only surviving sister of the Maistre family; at her death to the Legoux family, Paris. Portalès family, Paris. François Delestre, Paris; sold to Art Institute, 1990.
Publications
“La Chronique des arts,” Gazette de Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 117 (1991), suppl. to no. 1466, p. 56, no. 242 (ill.). Larry J. Feinberg in Malcolm Warner and Susan Wise, French and British paintings from 1600 to 1800 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago, 1996, pp. 79–80, ill.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771–1835)
- Date
- 1796
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.2 × 31.2 cm (17 × 12 1/4 in.); Framed: 57.2 × 44.5 cm (22 1/2 × 17 1/2 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.
- 1990.110
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001237
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