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Object Number

1943.863

People

Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, French (Saint-Quentin 1704 - 1788 Saint-Quentin)

Title

Jean-Charles Garnier, Seigneur d’Isle

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1751

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297681

Medium

Pastel on paper, wrapped around and adhered to canvas

Dimensions

64.4 x 53.9 cm (25 3/8 x 21 1/4 in.)
frame: 86 × 75.2 cm (33 7/8 × 29 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription:
• watermark:

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.863

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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“Exposition des Ouvrages de l’Académie Royale de Peinture, faite dans une dos Salée du Louvre, le 25 Août 1751", Mercure de France, Mercure de France (Paris, 1751), October, pp. 158-69, possibly p. 166

Auguste Jal, Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d’histoire, Slatkine (Geneva, 1872), possibly pp. 1318-19

Jules-François-Felix Fleury-Husson, called Champfleury, La Tour, Librairie de l'Art (Paris, 1886), possibly p. 93

Maurice Tourneux, La Tour, H. Laurens (Paris, 1904), p. 51 (as "Jean-Charles Garnier d’Isle")

Charles Morice, "Collection David Weill", L’Art et les Artistes, Hachette (Paris, 1907), vol. 5, April-September, pp. 227-35, p. 229 (as "Monsieur de Neuville")

“Notes critiques sur les œuvres de peinture et de sculpture reunites à l’exposition des cent pastels du XVIIIe siècle ouverte à la Galerie Georges Petit en mai-juin 1908", Bulletin de la société de l’histoire de l’art francais, Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (Paris, 1908), pp. 227-34, p. 231

Exposition de cent pastels du XVIIIe siècle, exh. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, 1908), cat. no. 59, p. 24

Léon Roger-Milès, Maîtres du XVIIIe siècles: cent pastels, Imprimerie Georges Petit (Paris, 1908), p. 47

Élie Fleury and Gaston Briére, Catalogue des pastels de M.-Q. de La Tour: collection de Saint-Quentin et Musée du Louvre, Bulloz (Paris, 1910), p. 37 (as "Jean-Charles Garnier d’Isle")

Louis Réau, “Quelques œuvres inédites de Pigalle", La revue de l’art ancien et moderne, Charavay (Paris, 1923), January-May, pp. 383-90

Gabriel Henriot, Collection David-Weill, Braun (Paris, 1926-1928), vol. 2, pp. 1, 37-39

Albert Besnard and Georges Wildenstein, La Tour: la vie et l'œuvre de l'artiste, Les Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1928), cat. no. 157, p. 143

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. 53

Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), cat. no. 101, pp. 148-49, 250

H. W. Janson, Catalogues of the Paris Salon, 1673 to 1881, Garland (New York and London, 1977), possibly vol. 3, cat. no. 48, p. 24

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. 120

Michel Gallet, Les architectes parisiens du XVIIIe siècle: dictionnaire biographique et critique, Editions Mengès (Paris, 1995), p. 234

Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, cat. no. 44, pp. 21, 25-n.27, 29

Claire Paisner, “Review: Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings", Pastelagram, Pastel Society of America (New York, 1999), vol. 27, no. 1, Spring-Summer, pp. 12-13, p. 13

Christine Debrie and Xavier Salmon, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour: prince des pastellistes, Somogy (Paris, 2000), pp. 162, 164, 169-n.47

Xavier Salmon, La voleur d’âmes: Maurice Quentin de La Tour, exh. cat., Éditions Artlys (Versailles, 2004), p. 156

Joseph Baillio, The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier, exh. cat., ed. Guy Wildenstein, Wildenstein & Company (New York, 2005), p. 78

Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, Unicorn Press (London, 2006), p. 290

Katharine Baetjer and Marjorie Shelley, Pastel Portraits: Images of Eighteenth-Century Europe, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2011), p. 29

Exposition de cent pastels du XVIIIe siècle, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 05/18/1908 - 06/10/1908

Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969

Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998

32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/19/2019 - 06/30/2021

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