The Comtesse de Cossé in a Salon

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Prints and Drawings

after 1768

Imitator of Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle
French, 1717-1806

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle
Title: The Comtesse de Cossé in a Salon
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.: 1717–1768
Medium: Black and red chalk, and watercolor, on ivory wove paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 36.7 × 24.8 cm (14 1/2 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Allerton
Reference Number: 1956.58
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Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 1B5.
Margot Bernstein, “Carmontelle’s Telltale Marks and Materials,” Metropolitan Museum Journal (2020), pp. 142 and 144

Minneapolis, Minn., University of Minnesota, “One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists,” 1961, cat. 9.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 52.
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, pp. 58-59, cat. 49 (ill.).
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. 13 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, “Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago,” February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 36-37, cat. 13 (ill.).

Possibly, the estate of the artist; sold, April 17-18, 1807 [according to Joachim 1977]. Sold by Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, to the Art Institute, 1956.

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