Attribué à Maurice-Quentin de La Tour

Collection marquise de Ganay ;
Sale Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 8-10 May 1922, Lot 14 ;

Cent pastel du XVIIIe siècle par Latour, Perronneau, Nattier, Chardin, Greuze etc. ... , Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 18 May-10 June 1908, n. 14

P. A. Lemoine, "Exposition des cent pastels, organisée par Mme la marquise de Ganay", Les Arts, 1908, p. 20 ;
H. MacFall, The French pastellists of the XVIII^th century, London, 1909, reproduit ;
L. Brieger, Das Pastel : seine Geschichte und seine Meister, Berlin, 1921, repr. p. 122 ;
N. Jeffares, online Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, ref. J.46.3642

Le pastel est dans un état de conservation très satisfaisant. On ne constate aucun manque de matière, ni d'usures. Le tableau est dans son cadre d'origine et ne semble pas avoir été décadré. Il y a une légère trace d'humidité dans le coin inférieur gauche. The pastel is in a very good overal condition. We cannot see any lack of painting or used areas. The work is in its original frame and does not seem to ever have been unframed. Light stain of wet in the lower left corner.
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