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Portrait of Madame Chardin
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower right: "Chardin 1776"
Provenance
Jean-Louis David, Paris; sold, Paris, March 18-19, 1868, lot 12 [invoice]. M. de Loriol, Geneva [invoice]. Marquis de Biron, Paris [invoice]. Forsyth Wickes (1876–1964), Paris, New York, and Newport, RI., by 1933-at least 1961 [Wildenstein 1933; Richmond 1961]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1962.
Exhibition history
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "J. B. S. Chardin," 1926, cat. 11. Copenhagen, Palais de Charlottenberg, August 25- October 6, 1935, cat. 267. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "French Painting and Sculpture of the XVIII Century," November 6, 1935-January 5, 1936, cat. 26. Pittsburgh, Pa., Carnegie Institute, "French Painting 1100-1900," October 18-December 2, 1952, cat. 86. Baltimore Museum of Art, "Man and His Years," October 19-November 21, 1954, cat. 84. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, "Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni," May 8-June 18, 1956, cat. 194. Richmond, Va., Museum of Fine Arts, "Treasures in America," January 13-March 5, 1961. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 46, pl. XXIII. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 60-61, cat. 29 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. 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, p. 51, cat. 38 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "European Portraits 1600-1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 8-September 11, 1978, cat. 27. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Chardin," 1979; traveled to the Cleveland Museum of Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 86-87, cat. 35 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi. The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1988-May 31, 1990.
Publications
Georges Wildenstein, Chardin (Paris, 1933), no. 666 (ill.). G. P. F. Grappe, "La Peinture," Amour de l'Art, XVI (July 1935), p. 241 (ill.). Herbert Furst, "Chardin Yesterday and Today," Connoisseur, 106 (July 1940), p. 17 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, LVI (Winter 1962/63) (ill.). J. Vallery-Radot, French Drawings (New York, 1964), no. 36 (ill.). Georges Wildenstein, (revised by Daniel Wildenstein), Chardin (New York, 1969), no. 374 (ill.). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1B7. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “ ‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26:1 (2000), pp. 5-15, and 46, fig. 3.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Siméon Chardin / French, 1699-1779
- Date
- 1776
- Medium
- Pastel on blue paper, laid down on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45.5 × 37.5 cm (17 15/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1962.137
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