About This Artwork
Maurice Quentin de Latour
French, 1704-1788
Portrait of M. Louis Silvestrec. 1753
Black and white chalks with traces of blue and red pastels on greenish-brown paper
292 x 248 mm
Gift from the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, 1958.543
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "For the Connoisseur," 1956, cat. 20.
Minneapolis, Minn., University Gallery, University of Minnesota, "The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Masters," 1961, cat. 51.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 51.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 94-95, cat. 47 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 11 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 32-33, cat. 11 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.
The Art Institute of Chicago, September 30, 1988-May 8, 1990.
Publication History
A. Besnard and Georges Wildenstein, La Tour (Paris, 1928), pl. LXXXVIII, (ill.).
Art News, LV (October, 1946), p. 6.
Art Quarterly, XXII (Summer 1959), p. 196, (ill.).
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LVII (February 1961), p. 37 (ill.).
Hugh Edwards, "Two Drawings by Maurice Quentin de La Tour," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 55 (March 1961), pp. 2-4 (ill.).
A. Frankfurter, "Il bon disegno from Chicago," Art News, LXII (November 1963), pp. 28-31 (ill.).
Ownership History
Camille Groult (died 1908), Paris [invoice]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1958.