id:			125030
accession number:	1946.465
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.465
updated:		2025-08-07 21:03:29.313000

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
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creation date:			1700s
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creditline:			Gift of Edward B. Greene
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	pastel on gray paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French, 1704–1788)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 57 x 46 cm (22 7/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mensing & Fils, Amsterdam, 4/27/37, no. 329, illus.
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	Arnold Seligmann & Rey, Paris
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	E. B. Greene, Cleveland
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	(Sale: Mensing & Fils, Amsterdam, 4/27/37, no. 329, illus.); (Arnold Seligmann & Rey, Paris); E. B. Greene, Cleveland, 1937
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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. 93; Mentioned: p. 92-95
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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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