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Old Man with a Basket of Fruit and Vegetables
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left (probably not in the artist's hand): "Par Portail"
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, pp. 48-49, cat. 36 (ill.). New York, The Frick Collection, "Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700-1750," October 19, 1999-January 9, 2000, cat. 76; also traveled to Ottawa, the National Gallery of Canada, February 11-May 8, 2000.
Publications
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 2D10. Xavier Salmon, Jacques-André Portail (Paris, 1996), no. 43 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacques André Portail / French, 1695-1759
- Date
- 18th century
- Medium
- Black chalk and red chalk, with touches of graphite, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 42.5 × 31 cm (16 3/4 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- David Adler Fund
- Accession no.
- 1972.26
Provenance
Sold by William H. Schab Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1972.
More by Jacques André Portail in museum collections
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-00002537
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