Portrait of Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville

Prints and Drawings

1746/47

Maurice Quentin de Latour
French, 1704-1788

This virtuoso violinist and composer (1711-1772) was second in command at the royal chapel and director of the Orchestra of the Spiritual Concert, both important musical institutions in eighteenth century Paris, and was as renowned for his theater pieces as he was for his motets. La Tour was a close friend, and a newly elected member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, when he captured this informal but sympathetic pose of de Mondonville tuning his violin. It was shown in the Salon of 1747.

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Artist: Maurice Quentin de Latour
Title: Portrait of Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1746–1747
Medium: Pastel on blue-gray laid paper, laid down on board
Dimensions: 61.2 × 49.4 cm (24 1/8 × 19 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number: 2001.52
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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.).

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

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.

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