Portrait of a Young Boy with Blue Eyes

Prints and Drawings

c. 1750

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
French, 1715-1783

Jean Baptiste Perronneau was one of the most unique portraitists in oil or pastel of the eighteenth century. He worked throughout Europe and Russia, but died a pauper in Holland. One of his most compelling early works is this pastel portrait. In this animated expression of youth, Perronneau used green shading to attain a naturalistic, lively face.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
Title: Portrait of a Young Boy with Blue Eyes
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.: 1745–1755
Medium: Pastel on blue laid paper, laid down on fabric, stretched on a wooden stretcher
Inscriptions: Signed lower right, in black chalk: "Perronneau"; inscribed on the back of frame, in a contemporary hand: "Ce pastel a été fixé par Loriot"
Dimensions: 45.2 × 37.4 cm (17 13/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: The Regenstein Collection
Reference Number: 1995.283
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Albert Flament, “La Collection Groult,” L”Illustration (Paris, 18 January 1908), p. 54 (ill.).
Fluois de Fourcaud, “Le pastel et les pastellistes français au XVIIIe siècle,” La Revue de l’Art Ancien et Moderne (September 1908), no. 1
Haldane Macfall, The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1909), p. 111.
Leandre Vaillat and Paul Ratois de Limay, J.-B. Perronneau: sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1909), no. 11 (ill.).
Leandre Vaillat and Paul Ratois de Limay, J.-B. Perronneau: sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris and Brussels, 1923), p. 18, no. 125.
The Burlington Magazine, 137 (June 1995) p. xxxii (ill.).
Alan Wintermute, The French Portrait 1550-1850 (New York, 1996), pp. 44-5, pl. 10.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument:’ The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 11 and 48-9, no. 19 (ill.).

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, “Société des Pastellistes Français: Exposition retrospective,” April 1885, cat. 75.
New York, Colnaghi, “An Exhibition of Master Drawings,” 3-26 May 1995, cat. 33.

Camille Groult (died 1908) Paris, by 1885 [Paris 1885]; probably by descent to his son Jean Groult (died 1951); probably by descent to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult, Paris [New York 1995]. Private collection, Paris [New York 1995]. Sold by P. & D. Colnaghi, London, to the Art Institute, 1995.

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