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"As \"Portrait de Dumont le Romain. Il est vu de trois quarts, regardant \u00e0 droite, et coiff\u00e9 d'un fichu nou\u00e9 au haut du front. Dessin sur papier bleu au crayon noire rehauss\u00e9 de blanc. H., om, 30. L., om, 20.\"
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"Purchased from Drouot sale for 300 F by this seller, according to annotated copy of sale catalogue at Frick Library, New York.
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"As \"Il est vu de trois quarts, tourn\u00e9 \u00e0 droite, un mazulipatan nou\u00e9 sur la t\u00eate. Pr\u00e9paration sur papier bleu, aux trois crayons.\"
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" Listed as \"A Mme X,\" in Copenhagen 1935, 86, no. 276.
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"did_you_know": "This drawing resembles two pastel portraits that Maurice Quentin de La Tour made of Jacques Dumont during the 1740s, but one work shows the sitter about to paint, while the other shows him playing a guitar.",
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"description": "Maurice Quentin de La Tour specialized in portraiture, and was praised by his contemporaries for creating uncanny likenesses of his sitters. He often created these works using pastel, a rich and powdery drawing material. He took up the technique for this quickly drawn sketch, created directly in front of his friend, the painter Jacques Dumont. La Tour used the drawing as a guide for Dumont's face in two different large-scale portraits in pastel, one of which is in the Louvre in Paris. During the 1800s this sheet was owned by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, the brothers who, as writers and intellectuals, championed the art of 18th-century France and helped to revive interest in La Tour and other artists from that period.",
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"citation": "Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. \"La Tour (2e et dernier article).\"Gazette des Beaux-Arts 22, no. 3 (April 1867): 350-371.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 359",
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"citation": "Burty, Philippe. Eaux-Fortes de Jules de Goncourt. Paris: Librairie de l'art, 1876.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3, under no. 11",
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"citation": "Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. L'Art du dix-huiti\u00e8me si\u00e8cle. Paris: A. Quantin, 1880.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 285",
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"citation": "Goncourt, Edmond de. La Maison d'un artiste. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1881.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 103",
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"citation": "Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. L'Art du XVIIIe si\u00e8cle. Paris: Biblioth\u00e8que Charpentier, 1902.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: vol. 1, pp. 408-409",
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"citation": "Bautier, Pierre. \"Le Carnet d'un curieux: Trois portraits de Jacques-Jean Dumont, dit le Romain, peintre et graveur, par Maurice Quentin De La Tour.\" La Renaissance de l'art fran\u00e7ais et des industriels de luxe 4, no. 7 (July 1921): 7-8.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 7-8; Reproduced: p. 7",
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"citation": "Besnard, Albert. La Tour: La vie et l'oeuvre de l'artiste. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1928.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 140, no. 119; Reproduced: plate CXI",
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"citation": "Bouchot-Saupique, Jacqueline. Mus\u00e9e national du Louvre, catalogue des pastels. Paris: Mus\u00e9es nationaux, 1930.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 30, under no. 44",
"url": null
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"citation": "Roustan, M. Mario. Exposition de l'art fran\u00e7ais au XVIIIe si\u00e8cle. Exh. Cat. Copenhagen: Palais de Charlottenborg, 1935.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 276",
"url": null
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"citation": "Pastels fran\u00e7ais des collections nationales et du Mus\u00e9e La Tour de Saint-Quentin. Exh. Cat. Paris: Orangerie des Tuileries, 1949.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 18, under no. 32",
"url": null
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"citation": "Bury, Adrian. Maurice-Quentin de La Tour: The Greatest Pastel Portraitist. London: Charles Skilton, 1971.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: under plate 49",
"url": null
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"citation": "Monnier, Genevi\u00e8ve. Inventaire des collections publiques fran\u00e7aises, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Cabinet des dessins, Pastels XVII\u00e8me et XVIII\u00e8me si\u00e8cles. Paris: \u00c9ditions des mus\u00e9es nationaux, 1972.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: under no. 64",
"url": null
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cYear in Review for 1983.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984): 38\u201379.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 73-74, no. 164",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159848"
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"citation": "Richards, Louise S. \"A Study for a Pastel Portrait of Jacques Dumont Le Romain by Maurice Quentin de La Tour.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (December 1984): 341-347.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 341-347",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Launay, \u00c9lisabeth. Les fr\u00e8res Goncourt, collectionneurs de dessins. Paris: Arthena, 1991.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 66, 86, 350-351, no. 173; Reproduced: p. 66",
"url": null
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"citation": "Wintermute, Alan. The French Portrait, 1550-1850. Exh. Cat. New York: Colnaghi, 1996.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 95, under plate 9",
"url": null
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"citation": "DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 106-107, p. 288, no. 39; Reproduced: p. 107",
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"citation": "Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le dessin franc\u0327ais au XVIIIe sie\u0300cle. Paris: Louvre \u00e9ditions: Somogy, 2017. p. 228",
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"citation": "Salmon, Xavier. Pastels in the Muse\u0301e du Louvre: 17th and 18th Centuries.
Paris: Hazan; Louvre editions, 2018.",
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"citation": "Salmon, Xavier, and Maurice Quentin de La Tour. Maurice Quentin de La Tour : L\u2019\u0153il Absolu. Paris: Cohen&Cohen, 2024.",
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