DrawingsFrench18th century

Portrait of Jean de Jullienne

c. 1739

Artists

Maurice-Quentin de La TourArtist

Jean de JullienneSitter

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Pastel on paper, wrapped around and adhered to canvas

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

59.1 × 47.9 cm (23 1/4 × 18 7/8 in.)

Provenance

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

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