Portrait of M. Louis Silvestre

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1753

Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
French, 1704–1788

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Maurice Quentin de Latour
Title: Portrait of M. Louis Silvestre
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.: 1748–1758
Medium: Black and white chalks with traces of blue and red pastels on greenish-brown paper
Dimensions: 29.2 × 24.8 cm (11 1/2 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Reference Number: 1958.543
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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.).

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.

Camille Groult (died 1908), Paris [invoice]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1958.

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