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Half-Length Portrait of François Boucher

by Jacques André Portail

Publications

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 2D11.

Quick Overview

Artist: Jacques André Portail / French, 1695-1759
Date: n.d.
Medium: Red chalk, with stumping, and brush and red chalk wash, on cream laid paper, tipped to cream laid paper
Dimensions: 17.4 × 12.3 cm (6 7/8 × 4 7/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: chalk
Place: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by Julius Lewis
Accession no.: 1975.498

Provenance

Sold by Ramiel M. Howitt, London, to the Art Institute, 1975.

More by Jacques André Portail in museum collections

Old Man with a Basket of Fruit and Vegetables
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Flowers in a Silver Caster, Fruit in the Foreground
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The Benediction
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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