Jacques-André Portail (Brest 1694-1759 Versailles)
From the Collection of Jean Bonna
Jacques-André Portail (Brest 1694-1759 Versailles)

A young man and a seated woman

Details
Jacques-André Portail (Brest 1694-1759 Versailles)
A young man and a seated woman
red and black chalk
13 1/8 x 10 ¾ in. (33.2 x 27.4 cm)
Provenance
Henri Lacroix (d. 1893), Paris.
Georges Mühlbacher (d. 1906), Paris; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 15-18 May 1899, lot 233 (to Stettiner).
Count of M.; Me Henri Baudoin, Paris, 27 June 1941, lot 23.
Mme Mottart; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 8 February 1945, lot 47 (to Paul Cailleux).
Anonymous sale Christie's, Paris, 18 March 2004, lot 120.
Literature
X. Salmon, Jacques-André Portail, 1695-1759, Paris, 1996, no. 23, ill.
Juliet Carey, ed., Theatres of Life: Drawings from the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, London, Wallace Collection, Nottingham, Djanogly Art Gallery, and Buckinghamshire, Waddesdon Manor, 2009, p. 172, fig. 50.
N. Strasser, Dessins français du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Collection Jean Bonna, Geneva, 2016, no. 51, ill.
Exhibited
Berlin, Akadamie der Künste, Exposition d'œuvres de l'art français au XVIIIe siècle, 1910, no. 109.
Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Suite française. Dessins de la collection Jean Bonna, 2006-2007, no. 28.
Sale room notice
Please note the additional literature: Juliet Carey, ed., Theatres of Life: Drawings from the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, London, Wallace Collection, Nottingham, Djanogly Art Gallery, and Buckinghamshire, Waddesdon Manor, 2009, p. 172, fig. 50.

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Lot Essay

Before being accepted at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1746 as a flower painter, Portail occupied the post of draftsman to the King at Versailles. Today he is remembered not only for his still-lives with flowers and his landscapes, but equally for his highly finished portraits in black and red chalk, such as one at the Albertina, Vienna (inv. 12099; see Salmon, op. cit., no 21, ill.).

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