Maurice Quentin de Latour

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Maurice Quentin de Latour

1704-1788

Portrait of Mlle Dangeville la Jeune (Marie-Anne Botot, 1714-1796)

Colored chalks, stumped, on light blue paper.

11 3/8 x 9 3/16 inches (290 x 233 mm)

Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.

1981.12

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.

Provenance:

J. Auguste Carrier, Paris; his sale, Paris, Féral, 5 May 1875, lot 9 (according to Gabriel Henriot, 1927); Madame Becq de Fouquières, Paris, 1886 and 1908; David David-Weill, Neuilly, by 1912; Wildenstein & Co.; Mrs. Byron Foy, New York, 1941; Thelma Chrysler Foy estate sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 22-23 May 1959, lot 634, repr.; private collection, New York; acquired from E. V. Thaw and Co., New York.

Associated names:

Carrier, Joseph Auguste, 1800-1875, former owner.
Fouquières, Becq de, Madame, former owner.
David-Weill, David, 1871-1952, former owner.
Foy, Byron, Mrs., former owner.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 270.
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 53.
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 56, repr.
Denison, Cara D., with Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 7, repr. in color.

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