Maurice-Quentin de La Tour (Saint-Quentin 1704-1788)

Portrait of Claude Dupouch, half-length, leaning on a chair

細節

Maurice-Quentin de La Tour (Saint-Quentin 1704-1788)
Portrait of Claude Dupouch, half-length, leaning on a chair
pastel on blue (discolored) paper laid down on canvas
25 5/8 x 21 in. (64 x 53 cm.)

來源

Pierre-Georges May, Paris, by 1928; and by descent until 1978 when acquired by the present owner.

出版

É. Dacier and P. Ratouis de Limay, Exposition de pastels français du XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, exh. cat., Paris, Hôtel Jean Charpentier, 1927, p. 20, under no. 32.
A. Besnard and G. Wildenstein, La Tour, la vie et l'oeuvre de l'artiste, Paris, 1928, p. 141, no. 124, pl. CXVI, fig. 232.
A. Bury, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, the greatest pastel portraitist, London, 1971, p. 195.
C.T. Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress collection: European schools excluding Italian, Oxford, 1977, p. 321, under no. K2129.
C. Debrie and X. Salmon, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, prince des pastellistes, Paris, 2000, pp. 207, 211, and 218, nt. 72, fig. 126.
F. Marandet, 'The apprenticeship of Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788)', The Burlington Magazine, CXLIV, no. 1193, August 2002, p.504, nt. 25 (with an error in numbering).
M. Fumaroli, Maurice Quentin de La Tour and the century of Louis XV, Lille, 2005, pp. 23-4, ill.
A. Laing, 'Exhibition reviews: La Tour; Boucher, Versailles', The Burlington Magazine, CXLVII, no. 1222, January 2005, pp. 56-7, fig. 46.
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, p. 288.
M.M. Grasselli, Renaissance to Revolution: French drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2009, pp. 136, 283, under no. 59, nt. 4.

展覽

New York, Wildenstein, French Pastels, February 1979, no. 7.
Versailles, Musée national des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Le voleur d'âmes: Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 2004, no. 19.

拍品專文

This portrait is one of three autograph versions of this composition. Jeffares (op. cit., p. 288) lists the other two versions in the Musée Antoine Lécuyer in Saint-Quentin and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. A version was first exhibited at the Salon of 1739. Another version at times considered autograph, but now considered a copy, was formerly in the collection of Georges Dormeuil (Sotheby's, London, 9 July 2014, lot 1010, unsold).

Claude Dupouch (circa 1686-1747) was painter and professor at l'Académie de Saint Luc and is believed to have been La Tour's teacher. He was also painter to the King of Poland. La Tour's portrait is one of his most celebrated works.

Portrait of Claude Dupouch, half-length, leaning on a chair

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