Object Information

Maurice Quentin de Latour
French, 1704-1788

Portrait of Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, 1746/47

Pastel on blue-gray laid paper, laid down on board
612 x 494 mm
Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection, 2001.52

Prints and Drawings
Gallery 216a

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Salon, 1753, cat. 76.

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

Publication History

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.).

Ownership History

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, 2001.