Jean-Baptiste Perronneau* (1715-1783)

Portrait of Madame Chevotet, bust-length wearing a pale green silk dress with a blue ribbon, a laced bonnet and a pearled necklace

Details

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau* (1715-1783)
Portrait of Madame Chevotet, bust-length wearing a pale green silk dress with a blue ribbon, a laced bonnet and a pearled necklace
signed and dated 'Perroneau pinx 1748'
pastel on vellum
20 x 17 in. (525 x 425 mm.)

Provenance

J.-B. Perronneau, to his grand-son, living in Nazelles, sold to Roux for 500 FF, circa 1850.
M. Roux, Tours; Paris, 17-20 February 1868, lot 480 (to A. Mame).
Alfred Mame; Paris, April 1904, lot 64, illustrated (70,000FF to Armand Mame).
Armand Mame; Paris, 14 June 1960, lot 17, illustrated.
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Le dessin en couleurs, 1983, no. 54.
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Oeuvres de Jeunesse de Watteau Ingres, 1985, no. 32.

Literature

L. Vaillat and P. Ratouis de Limay, J.-B. Perronneau, Paris, 1909, pp. 15, 135, pl. 48.
L. Vaillat and P. Ratouis de Limay, J.-B. Perroneau, sa vie, son oeuvre, Paris, 1923, pp. 29, 188, 212, pl. 10.
P. Ratouis de Limay, Le Pastel en france au XVIIIme sicle, Paris, 1946, pl. XX.

Exhibited

Probably Paris, Salon, 1750, no. 139.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition de Cent Pastels du XVIIIe Sicle, 1908, ex-catalogue (lent by madame Mame).

Lot Essay

The sitter was the wife of Jean-Michel Chevotet (1698-1772), an architect and friend of Perroneau from his youth in Orlans. Another version of this portrait, drawn three years later in 1751, is in the Orlans Museum, along with a portrait of her husband. The fact that the present pastel is executed on vellum would suggest it is the prime version.