DrawingsFrench18th century

Portrait of a Man

1773

Artists

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon ChardinArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Pastel on tan laid paper with blue fibers, wrapped around and adhered to canvas

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

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

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