id: 125030 accession number: 1946.465 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.465 updated: 2025-05-08 11:22:00.350000 Portrait of a Man, 1700s. Attributed to Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French, 1704–1788). Pastel on gray paper; sheet: 57 x 46 cm (22 7/16 x 18 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Edward B. Greene 1946.465 title: Portrait of a Man title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1700s creation date earliest: creation date latest: current location: creditline: Gift of Edward B. Greene copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: pastel on gray paper department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French, 1704–1788) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 57 x 46 cm (22 7/16 x 18 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: gray paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Mensing & Fils, Amsterdam, 4/27/37, no. 329, illus. date: footnotes: citations: Arnold Seligmann & Rey, Paris date: footnotes: citations: E. B. Greene, Cleveland date: 1937 footnotes: citations: (Sale: Mensing & Fils, Amsterdam, 4/27/37, no. 329, illus.); (Arnold Seligmann & Rey, Paris); E. B. Greene, Cleveland, 1937 date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 93; Mentioned: p. 92-95 url: Francis, Henry. "Three Eighteenth-Century Pastel Portraits." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 9 (November 1947): 213-215. page number: Mentioned: p. 213; Reproduced: p. 236 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141409 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.465/1946.465_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.465/1946.465_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.465/1946.465_full.tif