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    Portrait of Claude Charles Deschamps
    Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. Portrait of Claude Charles Deschamps, 1779. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005744

    Portrait of Claude Charles Deschamps

    by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Mme. Widow R…, of Douai; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 16, 1923, lot 86, to Feral (?) [buyer name acc. annotated sale cat.,National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.]. David David-Weill (1871–1952), Paris, by 1927-at least December 1938 [Jamot 1927; New York 1938]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 10, 1959, lot 101, to Sperling. Sold by Kleinberger and Company, New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, 1964 [collector notes]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Musée du Louvre, August–October 1922. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "French XVIII Century Pastels, Water colors and Drawings from the David-Weill Collection," November–December 1938, cat. 9, as Le Chanoine Deschamps. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 1992. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings," December 11, 1998–March 28, 1999, checklist 30. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 55, cat. 28 (ill.).

    Publications

    Paul Jamot, “Actualités: Notes sur l’Exposition des Pasteles Français de XVII et XVIII siècles,” Bulletin de l’Art Ancien et Modern (July–August, 1927), p. 209. Gabriel Henriot, Collection of David-Weill II (Paris, 1927), p. 33. Pastels Français des XVIIp et XVIIIe siècles (Paris, 1927), p. 77. Albert Besnard, La Tour: La Vie et l’Oeuvre de l’Artiste (Paris, 1928), p. 139, cat. 97, pl. 80. Le Portrait de Watteau a David (Paris, 1958), p. 48. Adrian Bury, Maurice-Quentin de la Tour: The Greatest Pastel Portraitist (London, 1971), p. 194. Geneviève Monnier, Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins, Pastels: XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles (Paris, 1972), under no. 78. Christine Debrie and Xavier Salmon, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour: Princ des pastellistes (Paris, 2000), p. 89 n. 38.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Maurice-Quentin de La Tour / French, 1704–1788
    Date
    1779
    Medium
    Pastel on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    31.7 × 23.3 cm (12 1/2 × 9 3/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1998.115

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