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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, "Les Maîtres du 18ème Siècle: Cent Pastels," 1908, cat. 29.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "French 18th-Century Drawings from the David-Weill Collection," November-December 1938, cat. 8.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 50, pl. XXII.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 92-93, cat. 46 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 57, cat. 46 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

Publication History

Henry Lapauze, Les Pastels de Quentin de La Tour (Paris, 1905), p. 103 (ill.).

"L’Exposition des Cent Pastels," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, II (Paris, 1908), pp. 7 and 9 (ill.).

Société de reproduction des dessins de maîtres, Les preparations de M.-Q. de La Tour, conservées dans les musées et collections particulières, réproduites et accompagnées de notes critiques (Paris, 1912).

Élie Fleury and Gaston Brière, Catalogue des Pastels de M.-Q. de la Tour (Paris, 1920), pp. 31-32.

"Collection David-Weill," L’Amour de ‘Art, VI (January 1925), p. 11 (ill.).

Gabriel Henriot, Collection David-Weill, II (Paris, 1927), pp. 25-26 (ill.).

Albert Besnard, Latour: La Vie et l’Oeuvre de l’Artiste (Paris, 1928), p. 149, no. 246, fig. 7.

Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Draftsmen of the Dix-Huitième: Pastels and Watercolors from the David-Weill Collection," Artnews, XXXVII:6 (November 5, 1938), p. 11 (ill. on cover).

Élie Fleury and Gaston Brière, Collection Maurice-Quentin de la Tour (Saint-Quentin, 1954), p. 33.

Hugh Edwards, "Two Drawings by Maurice Quentin de la Tour," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 55:1 (March 1961), pp. 2-4.

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 34, no. 1G3.

Louise S. Richards, "A Study for a Pastel Portrait of Jacques Dumont Le Romain by Maurice Quentin de la Tour," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (December 1984), pp. 344-45, fig. 5.

Ownership History

Carrier, Paris; sold, Paris, 1875, lot 10. Mme. Becq de Fouquières, Paris, by 1908 [Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1908]. David David-Weill (1871-1952), Paris, by 1912 [Société de reproduction des dessins de maitres 1912]; consigned to Wildenstein and Company, New York, by 1938 [according to Frankfurter]. Sold by French and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1959.