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A half length portrait of a man in a white powdered wig and ruffled shirt facing right

A man seated in a chair with a carved back and a rose colored cushion sits in three quarter profile facing right, turning his head to look at us. He wears a white wig, its shoulder length curls framing his high forehead and pale complexioned face. He has brown eyes and wears a calm expression. He wears a pale blue-gray collarless velvet jacket over a white cravat and a white shirt with lace cuffs. Shown from the elbow up, he holds his right hand inside the front of his jacket. The background is a muted gray.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.862
People
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, French (Saint-Quentin 1704 - 1788 Saint-Quentin)
Jean de Jullienne
Title
Portrait of Jean de Jullienne
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1739
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297643

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel on paper, wrapped around and adhered to canvas
Dimensions
59.1 × 47.9 cm (23 1/4 × 18 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription:
  • watermark:

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Comte Jacques de Bryas, Paris; his sale, Drouot (Chevallier), Paris, 6 February 1905, lot 16, sold; to Ducrey; René Gimpel, Paris and New York (by 1912), sold; to Samuel Reading Bertron, New York; Geoffrey Dodge, Paris (by 1927); Wildenstein and Co., New York (by 1930), sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.862

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.862
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition: Loans and Special Features, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1920), p. 10 (as "Portrait of a Man")
  • Fremont Rider, Rider’s New York City: A Guide Book for Travelers, Macmillan and Co. (New York, 1924), p. 447
  • Émile Dacier, Paul Ratouis de Limay, and Gaston Briére, Exposition de pastels français du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècle, exh. cat., G. Vanoest (Paris, 1927), cat. no. 71, p. 47
  • Émile Dacier, Paul Ratouis de Limay, and David David-Weill, Pastels français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: étude et notices, exh. cat., Galerie Jean Charpentier (Paris, 1927), cat. no. 36, pp. 56-57
  • Albert Besnard and Georges Wildenstein, La Tour: la vie et l'œuvre de l'artiste, Les Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1928), cat. no. 655, p. 179
  • Felix Wildenstein, “L’art français: quelques chefs d’oeuvre de la peinture française dans les musées américains", Book of Friendship: le livre de l’amitié, ed. F. G. Hoffherr, Maison de France (New York, 1947), n.p., n.p. (as "Jean de Jullienne")
  • Georges Wildenstein, French XVIIIth Century Paintings, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (New York, 1948), n.p.
  • Élie Fleury and Gaston Briére, Collection Maurice-Quentin Delatour à Saint-Quentin, exh. cat., Musée Antoine Lecuyer (Saint Quentin, 1954), p. 55
  • René Gimpel, Journal d’un collectionneur: marchand et tableaux, Calmann Lévy (Paris, 1963), p. 307
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 250
  • Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Pierre Rosenberg, and Nicole Parmantier, Watteau, 1684-1721, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Washington and Paris, 1984), p. 426
  • Christine Debrie, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour: “peintre de portraits au pastel” 1704-1788 au Musée Antoine Lécuyer de Saint-Quentin, Editions de l'Albaron (Saint-Quentin, 1991), p. 128
  • Xavier Salmon, La voleur d’âmes: Maurice Quentin de La Tour, exh. cat., Éditions Artlys (Versailles, 2004), pp. 16, 98
  • Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, Unicorn Press (London, 2006), p. 292
  • Edouard Kopp and Jennifer Tonkovich, “The Judgment of a Connoisseur: P.-J. Mariette’s Annotations to the 1767 Jullienne Sale Catalogue, Part I (Paintings)", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (2009), vol. 151, no. 1281, December, pp. 821-24, p. 821
  • Isabelle Tillerot, Jean de Jullienne et les collectionneurs de son temps: un regard singulier sur le tableau, Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme (Paris, 2010), cat. no. 101, p. 371
  • Christoph Martin Vogtherr and Jennifer Tonkovich, Jean de Jullienne: Collector & Connoisseur, exh. cat., The Trustees of the Wallace Collection (London, 2011), p. 30
  • René Gimpel, Journal d’un collectionneur: marchand et tableaux, Hermann (Paris, 2011), p. 450
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 109, 282, repr. p. 106 as fig. 1
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, "'I still spent much more than I had planned:' Buying Drawings at Jean de Jullienne's 1767 Sale", A Demand for Drawings: Five Centuries of Collectors and Collecting Drawings, The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2018), pp. 102-117, p. 103, repr. as fig. 86
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 69, repr., p. 16

Exhibition History

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