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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Portrait of a Young Boy with Blue Eyes by Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
    Jean-Baptiste Perronneau. Portrait of a Young Boy with Blue Eyes, c. 1750. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00005681

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    Portrait of a Young Boy with Blue Eyes

    by Jean-Baptiste Perronneau

    Provenance

    Camille Groult (1832-1908), Paris, by 1885 [Paris 1885]; by descent to his wife (née Alice Émilie Thomas Tassin de Moncourt; 1837-1918), Paris; by descent to her son, Jean Groult (1868-1951), Paris; by descent to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult (1916-2007), Paris, to at least 1971 [all provenance is according to d'Arnoult 2014]. Sold by P. & D. Colnaghi, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower right, in black chalk: "Perronneau"; inscribed on the back of frame, in a contemporary hand: "Ce pastel a été fixé par Loriot"

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, "Société des Pastellistes Français: Exposition retrospective," April 1885, cat. 75. New York, Colnaghi, "An Exhibition of Master Drawings," 3-26 May 1995, cat. 33.

    Publications

    Albert Flament, “La Collection Groult,” L”Illustration (Paris, 18 January 1908), p. 54 (ill.). Fluois de Fourcaud, “Le pastel et les pastellistes français au XVIIIe siècle,” La Revue de l’Art Ancien et Moderne (September 1908), no. 1 Haldane Macfall, The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1909), p. 111. Leandre Vaillat and Paul Ratois de Limay, J.-B. Perronneau: sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1909), no. 11 (ill.). Leandre Vaillat and Paul Ratois de Limay, J.-B. Perronneau: sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris and Brussels, 1923), p. 18, no. 125. The Burlington Magazine, 137 (June 1995) p. xxxii (ill.). Alan Wintermute, The French Portrait 1550-1850 (New York, 1996), pp. 44-5, pl. 10. 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. 11 and 48-9, no. 19 (ill.). Dominique d'Arnoult, Jean-Baptiste Perronneau ca. 1715–1783: Un portraitiste dans l’Europe des Lumières (Arthena, 2014), p. 236, no. 85Pa.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean-Baptiste Perronneau / French, 1715-1783
    Date
    c. 1750
    Medium
    Pastel on blue laid paper, laid down on canvas
    Dimensions
    45.2 × 37.4 cm (17 13/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    The Regenstein Collection
    Accession no.
    1995.283

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