AT-00022328
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Préparation for a Portrait of Louis XV (1710-1774)
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French, Saint-Quentin 1704–1788 Saint-Quentin)
- Date
- ca.1745
- Medium
- Pastel on blue paper, arched top
- Dimensions
- sheet (original sheet): 12 7/8 x 9 7/16 in. (32.7 x 24 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary Tavener Holmes, in honor of Donald Posner, 2005
- Accession no.
- 2005.66
Provenance
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