id:			125029
accession number:	1946.464
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.464
updated:		2025-02-09 01:13:32.132000

Portrait of a French Actress, c. 1746. Attributed to Jacques-Charles Allais (French, c. 1704-c. 1759). Pastel; unframed: 63.8 x 48.2 cm (25 1/8 x 19 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Edward B. Greene 1946.464

title:				Portrait of a French Actress
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creation date:			c. 1746
creation date earliest:		1741
creation date latest:		1751
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creditline:			Gift of Edward B. Greene
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	pastel
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Swiss
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Jacques-Charles Allais (French, c. 1704-c. 1759)  - artist

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measurements: Unframed: 63.8 x 48.2 cm (25 1/8 x 19 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Henry S. Francis, "Three Eighteenth-Century Portraits," CMA Bull., Vol. 34 (November 1947), pp. 213-214, repr. p. 236.', 'opening_date': '1947-11-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'European Paintings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries (CMA 1982), cat. no. 226, repr.', 'opening_date': '1982-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'European & American Painting in The Cleveland Museum of Art.  A Summary Catalogue compiled by Alan Chong (CMA 1993), p. 133, repr.', 'opening_date': '1993-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	 Adrian Hope (1909)
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	Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co, Paris, 1939
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	E. B. Greene
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	Adrian Hope (1909); (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Paris, 1939); E. B. Greene
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art<em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 519; Mentioned: p. 519-521
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	Francis, Henry. "Three Eighteenth-Century Pastel Portraits." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>34, no. 9 (November 1947): 213-215.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 213; Reproduced: p. 236
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141409

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IMAGES

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