Portrait of a Man

Artists

Dimensions

54.8 × 44.2 cm (21 9/16 × 17 3/8 in.) frame (including wreath at top): 90 × 65 cm (35 7/16 × 25 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Jean-Antoine Vassal de Saint-Hubert, Paris; his sale, Remy, Paris, 29 March-13 April 1779, lot 251 (as "Portrait of a Man"); his estate sale, Remy-Brusley, Paris, 24 April 1783-5 May 1783, lot 101, sold; to Lepeintre (or Lepautre); Laurent Laperlier, Paris; his estate sale, Drouot (George-Delestre), Paris, 17-21 February 1879, lot 48 (as "Portrait of the Painter, Jean-Jacques Bachelier"); Étienne-Edmond de Riel, Baron de Beurnonville, Paris; his sale, Féral-George-Petit-Pillet, Paris, 9-16 May 1881, lot 27; possibly Antoine-François Marmontel, Paris; sale, Drouot (Brame-Boulland), Paris, 25-26 January 1883, lot 61; Antoine-François Marmontel, Paris; his estate sale, Drouot (Brame-Tual), Paris, 28-29 March 1898, lot 17; Sigismond Bardac, Paris; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 10-11 May 1920, lot 17; Galerie Wildenstein, Paris (by 1921), sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886, inv. no. 1939.89