
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002179Portrait of M. Louis Silvestre
Provenance
Camille Groult (died 1908), Paris [invoice]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1958.
Exhibition history
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "For the Connoisseur," 1956, cat. 20. Minneapolis, Minn., University Gallery, University of Minnesota, "The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Masters," 1961, cat. 51. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 51. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 94-95, cat. 47 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 11 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 32-33, cat. 11 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986. The Art Institute of Chicago, September 30, 1988-May 8, 1990.
Publications
A. Besnard and Georges Wildenstein, La Tour (Paris, 1928), pl. LXXXVIII, (ill.). Art News, LV (October, 1946), p. 6. Art Quarterly, XXII (Summer 1959), p. 196, (ill.). Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LVII (February 1961), p. 37 (ill.). Hugh Edwards, "Two Drawings by Maurice Quentin de La Tour," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 55 (March 1961), pp. 2-4 (ill.). A. Frankfurter, "Il bon disegno from Chicago," Art News, LXII (November 1963), pp. 28-31 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Maurice-Quentin de La Tour / French, 1704–1788
- Date
- c. 1753
- Medium
- Black and white chalks with traces of blue and red pastels on greenish-brown paper
- Dimensions
- 29.2 × 24.8 cm (11 1/2 × 9 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1958.543
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