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    Portrait of Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
    Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. Portrait of Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, 1746/47. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005818

    Portrait of Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville

    by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    M. and Mme. de Mondonville [invoice]; by descent to their son, to 1782 [invoice]. Deloynes, France [invoice]. Private Collection, Liege [invoice]. Watel-Dehaynin, 1920s-2001 [invoice]. Sold by Emmanuel Moatti, New York and Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Salon, 1753, cat. 76. Paris, Salon de la Correspondance, 1782, listed as from the Cabinet of M. de Mondonville Fils.

    Publications

    Pierre Jean Mariette, Abecedario et autres notes inédites de cet amateur, ouvrage publié d'après les manuscrits autographes conservés au Cabinet des Estampes de la Bibliothèque Impériale, et annoté par MM. Ph. de Chennevières et A. de Montaiglon, vol. 3 (Paris, 1854-1856), pp. 73-74. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, L'art du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1885), vol. 2, pp. 238-40; 1906 ed., vol. 1, pp. 291, and 304-05. Maurice Tourneux, La Tour (Paris, 1904), pp. 52 and 99. André Tessier, "Le Portrait de Mondonville au Musée de Saint-Quentin" in Le Figaro: Supplément Artistique, December 29, 1927, pp. 162-63 and cover illustration. Albert Besnard, La Tour. La vie et l'oeuvre de l'artiste. Catalogue critique par Georges Wildenstein (Paris, 1928), pp. 17, 20, 22, 38, 44, 111, 127-29, 157, nos. 344-45 (for Monsieur); nos. 347-8, p. 157 (for Madame). Alfred Leroy, Maurice Quentin de la Tour et la société française du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1953), p. 41. Élie Fleury and Gaston Brière, Collection Maurice-Quentin de la Tour à Saint-Quentin (Saint Quentin, 1954), p. 62, no. 38 (replica and Art Institute pair). Adrian Bury, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, The Greatest Pastel Portraitist (London, 1971), pls. 54-55 (replica). Christine Debrie, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour: "peintre de portraits au pastel," 1704-1788 au Musée Antoine Lecuyer de Saint-Quentin (Saint Quentin, 1991), pp. 144-47 (ill. replica in Saint-Quentin). Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Jean Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville; Anne Jeanne Cassanéa de Mondonville,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1, pp. 76-77 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Maurice-Quentin de La Tour / French, 1704–1788
    Date
    1746/47
    Medium
    Pastel on blue-gray laid paper, laid down on board
    Dimensions
    61.2 × 49.4 cm (24 1/8 × 19 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
    Accession no.
    2001.52

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