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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.114
People
Jacques-André Portail, French (Brest 1695 - 1759 Versailles)
Title
Portrait of a Woman Holding a Musical Score
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Chanteuse au Cahier de Musique
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294111

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, touches of white gouache, red and black chalk, gray wash, and graphite on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
35.3 x 28 cm (13 7/8 x 11 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.114
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Xavier Salmon, Jacques-André Portail, 1695-1759, Galerie de Bayser (Paris, 1996), no. 12, repr.
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2005), no. 27, p. 8
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), pp. 104, 495-n.2

Exhibition History

  • "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/17/2005 - 03/12/2006
  • HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #2: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2011 - 06/18/2011

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