Maurice Quentin De La Tour

Lot 142: Maurice Quentin De La Tour (Saint Quentin 1704-1788)

Name: Maurice Quentin De La Tour (Saint Quentin 1704-1788)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: ca608e0717

Est: $15,000 USD - $20,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 27, 2010

Item Overview

Description

Maurice Quentin De La Tour (Saint Quentin 1704-1788)
Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length in three-quarter profile
pastel on two joined sheets of paper
22¼ x 18½ in. (56.5 x 47.3 cm.), oval

Artist or Maker

Maurice Quentin De La Tour

Literature

A. Besnard and G. Wildenstein, La Tour, la vie et l'oeuvre de l'artiste, Paris, 1928, p. 186, no. 873.
X. Salmon, Le voleur d'âmes: Maurice Quentin de La Tour, exh. cat., Versailles, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, 2004, p. 98, under no. 15, fig. 1.
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, p. 297.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 7 February 1898, lot 65.
Anonymous sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 27 March 1985, lot 7.
Anonymous sale; Bordeaux, Hôtel des Ventes Mobilières, 20 April 1988, lot 28.

Notes

THIS LOT IS SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

From circa 1735-40, early in the artist's career and comparable to another oval portrait from the same period (Salmon, op. cit., p. 98, no. 15). The sitter of the present lot has mistakenly been identified as the printmaker Simon-Charles Miger (1736-1820).

Auction Details

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings, & Watercolors

Christie's

January 27, 2010, 10:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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