Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011278Madame Millin du Perreux and Her Son, with a Painted Portrait of Monsieur Jérôme-Robert Millin du Perreux
About the Artwork
Carmontelle was an amateur artist working in the circle of the Duke of Orléans (at that time, Louis Philippe d'Orléans, great-grandson of Monsieur, the brother of Louis XIV). Hundreds of the artist's drawn portraits survive, most of them similar to this one in format and technique. Carmontelle had an official appointment in the Orléans household as tutor to the Duke's son. Because of this, he met many of the most prominent men and women in France, whom he drew for his own amusement. The family in this drawing is identifiable because of another drawing of them by Carmontelle, now in the Musée Condé, in Chantilly (near Paris).
Exhibition history
French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Louis Carmontelle (French, 1717–1806)
- Date
- c. 1760
- Medium
- red chalk, black chalk, and watercolor, heightened with white chalk or paint?
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 31.5 x 20.1 cm (12 3/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2008.409
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