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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Portrait of M. Louis Silvestre
    Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. Portrait of M. Louis Silvestre, c. 1753. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002179

    Portrait of M. Louis Silvestre

    by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    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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