Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length in three-quarter profile

細節

Maurice Quentin De La Tour (Saint Quentin 1704-1788)
Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length in three-quarter profile
pastel on two joined sheets of paper
22¼ x 18½ in. (56.5 x 47.3 cm.), oval

來源

Anonymous sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 7 February 1898, lot 65.
Anonymous sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 27 March 1985, lot 7.
Anonymous sale; Bordeaux, Hôtel des Ventes Mobilières, 20 April 1988, lot 28.

出版

A. Besnard and G. Wildenstein, La Tour, la vie et l'oeuvre de l'artiste, Paris, 1928, p. 186, no. 873.
X. Salmon, Le voleur d'âmes: Maurice Quentin de La Tour, exh. cat., Versailles, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, 2004, p. 98, under no. 15, fig. 1.
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, p. 297.

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拍品專文

From circa 1735-40, early in the artist's career and comparable to another oval portrait from the same period (Salmon, op. cit., p. 98, no. 15). The sitter of the present lot has mistakenly been identified as the printmaker Simon-Charles Miger (1736-1820).