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Le Marquis de Puente-Fuerte
Provenance
The artist to Pablo Antonio de Barrenechea y Novia, marquis de Puente Fuerte (1719–1770), The Hague [d’Arnoult 2014]; by descent to his second wife, Maria Francisca Barbara Ana von Reischach (1734–1812) [d’Arnoult 2014]. Paul Sohège, Paris, to at least 1896 [Tourneux 1896]. Sigismond Bardac, Paris; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 10–11, 1920, Bardac sale, lot 29. Jules Strauss (1861–1943), Paris, by 1927–at least 1933 [Paris 1927; Paris 1933]. Sold by Cesar de Hauke (1900–1965), Paris, to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.
Inscriptions
Signed upper right, in graphite: “Perronneau pinx”
Exhibition history
Paris, Hôtel Jean Charpentier, "Exposition de Pastels Francais des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles," May 23–June 26, 1927, cat. 109. Paris, André J. Seligmann, "Exposition du Pastel Français du XVIIe siècle à nos jours," Nov. 18–Dec. 9, 1933, p. 36, cat. 40. Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," Jan.–Mar. 28, 1976, pp. 58–59, cat. 48 (ill.).
Publications
Maurice Tourneux, “Jean-Baptiste Perronneau,” (part III), Gazette des Beaux-Arts XV (Apr. 1, 1896), p. 315 (ill.). Leandre Vaillat and Paul Ratouis de Limay, J.-P. Perroneau (1715–1783) sa Vie et Son Oeuvre (Paris, 1909), no. 183. Léandre Vaillat and Paul Ratouis de Limay, J.-P. Perroneau (1715–1783) Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre (Paris and Brussels, 1923), p. 204, no. 29, 234. Paul Ratouis de Limay, “L’Exposition de Pastels Francais du XVIIe et du XVIIIe Siecle,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts (January–June 1927), p. 333. Émile Dacier and Paul Ratouis de Limay, Pastels Français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Paris and Brussels: Les Éditions G. van Oest, 1927), p. 95, no. 88, pls. 2 and 62. Claude Roger-Marx, “Pastels Francais du XVIIe au XXe Siecle, “ L’Art Vivant, 179 (Dec. 1933), pp. 498–99 (ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, “In a Minor Key,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 47:2 (Apr. 1, 1953), p. 34 (ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, “In a Minor Key,” The Art Quarterly XVI:3 (Autumn 1953), p. 268–69 (ill.). Paul L. Grigaut, “Portrait of an Eighteenth Century Nobleman,” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 36:1 (1956–57), p. 6. Adolf Staring, “Hollandse werken van Liotard en Perronneau Een nalezing,” Oud Holland 74 (1959), p. 23, fig. 7. Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 353. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 2D6. Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800 (Unicorn Press, 2006), p. 407 (ill.). Dominique d’Arnoult, Jean-Baptiste Perronneau ca. 1715–1783: Un portraitiste dans l’Europe des Lumières (Arthena, 2014), pp. 280–281, no. 219 Pa (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Perronneau / French, 1715-1783
- Date
- 1761–62
- Medium
- Pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 69.9 × 56.5 cm (27 9/16 × 22 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Robert A. Waller Memorial fund
- Accession no.
- 1951.225
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