id: 151544 accession number: 1983.89 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.89 updated: 2024-11-18 23:42:07.173000 Jacques Dumont, called Le Romain, c. 1742. Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French, 1704–1788). Black and white chalk with pastel; sheet: 30.8 x 20.8 cm (12 1/8 x 8 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1983.89 title: Jacques Dumont, called Le Romain title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1742 creation date earliest: 1737 creation date latest: 1747 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: black and white chalk with pastel department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Besnard 119 --- CREATORS * Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French, 1704–1788) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 30.8 x 20.8 cm (12 1/8 x 8 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: blue laid paper (partially faded to brown-green) watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: The Year in Review for 1983 opening date: 1984-02-22T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984). title: Treasures on Paper opening date: 1988-05-10T04:00:00 Treasures on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988). title: French Drawings from the Collection opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00 French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Exposition de l'art français au XVIIIe siècle. Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen (1935).", 'opening_date': '1935-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Camille Marcille [1815-1875], Gasville-Oisème date: ?-1875 footnotes: citations: (Hotel Drouot, Paris, Tableaux et dessins formant la collection de feu M. Camille Marcille, March 6-7, 1876, no. 152) date: 1876 footnotes: *
As "Portrait de Dumont le Romain. Il est vu de trois quarts, regardant à droite, et coiffé d'un fichu noué au haut du front. Dessin sur papier bleu au crayon noire rehaussé de blanc. H., om, 30. L., om, 20."
citations: "Groult" date: 1876-? footnotes: *
Purchased from Drouot sale for 300 F by this seller, according to annotated copy of sale catalogue at Frick Library, New York.
citations: Edmond and Jules de Goncourt [1822-1896 and 1830-1870; Lugt 1089], Draveil and Neuilly-Auteuil-Passy date: ?-1897 footnotes: citations: (Hotel Drouot, Paris, Goncourt sale, February 15-17, 1897, no. 157) date: 1897 footnotes: *
As  "Il est vu de trois quarts, tourné à droite, un mazulipatan noué sur la tête. Préparation sur papier bleu, aux trois crayons."
citations: Marius Paulme [1863-1928; Lugt 1910], Paris date: 1897-? footnotes: *
Purchased for 2,100 F, according to annotated catalogue.
citations: Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron [1859-1939], Dordogne date: ?-1914 footnotes: citations: (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Collection du Marquis de Biron, première vente..., June 9-11, 1914, no. 38) date: 1914 footnotes: *
Reproduced in sale catalogue, no. 38. Sold for 11,500 F.
citations: Gaston Le Breton [1845-1920], Rouen date: 1914-1920 footnotes: citations: (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Le Breton sale, December 6-8, 1921, no. 91, sold to Ducrey) date: 1921 footnotes: *
Reproduced in sale catalogue, plate IX.
citations: Ducrey collection date: 1921-by 1935 footnotes: *
Sold for 14,000 F, according to Launay 1991.
citations: Private collection ("Mme X") date: by 1935-by 1982 footnotes: *
 Listed as "A Mme X," in Copenhagen 1935, 86, no. 276.
citations: (Sotheby's, London, Old Master Drawings, November 18,1982, no. 50) date: 1982 footnotes: *
Reproduced in sale catalogue, p. 43.
citations: (Société Artemis, Paris) date: 1982-1983 footnotes: *
Purchased for £12,320, according to Launay 1991.
citations: (David Carritt, Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: 1983 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1983- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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 url: Burty, Philippe. Eaux-Fortes de Jules de Goncourt. Paris: Librairie de l'art, 1876. page number: Mentioned: p. 3, under no. 11 url: Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. L'Art du dix-huitième siècle. Paris: A. Quantin, 1880. page number: Mentioned: p. 285 url: Goncourt, Edmond de. La Maison d'un artiste. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1881. page number: Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 103 url: Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. L'Art du XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Bibliothèque Charpentier, 1902. page number: Mentioned: vol. 1, pp. 408-409 url: 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 français et des industriels de luxe 4, no. 7 (July 1921): 7-8. page number: Mentioned: pp. 7-8; Reproduced: p. 7 url: 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 url: Bouchot-Saupique, Jacqueline. Musée national du Louvre, catalogue des pastels. Paris: Musées nationaux, 1930. page number: Mentioned: p. 30, under no. 44 url: Roustan, M. Mario. Exposition de l'art français au XVIIIe siècle. Exh. Cat. Copenhagen: Palais de Charlottenborg, 1935. page number: Mentioned: no. 276 url: Pastels français des collections nationales et du Musée La Tour de Saint-Quentin. Exh. Cat. Paris: Orangerie des Tuileries, 1949. page number: Mentioned: p. 18, under no. 32 url: Bury, Adrian. Maurice-Quentin de La Tour: The Greatest Pastel Portraitist. London: Charles Skilton, 1971. page number: Mentioned: under plate 49 url: Monnier, Geneviève. Inventaire des collections publiques françaises, Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des dessins, Pastels XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles. Paris: Éditions des musées nationaux, 1972. page number: Mentioned: under no. 64 url: 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: Launay, Élisabeth. Les frères Goncourt, collectionneurs de dessins. Paris: Arthena, 1991. page number: Mentioned: pp. 66, 86, 350-351, no. 173; Reproduced: p. 66 url: Wintermute, Alan. The French Portrait, 1550-1850. Exh. Cat. New York: Colnaghi, 1996. page number: Mentioned: p. 95, under plate 9 url: 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 url: Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Louvre éditions: Somogy, 2017. p. 228 page number: Reproduced: p. 228, no. 388 url: Salmon, Xavier. Pastels in the Musée du Louvre: 17th and 18th Centuries.
Paris: Hazan; Louvre editions, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 169; reproduced: p. 170, fig. 36 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.89/1983.89_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.89/1983.89_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.89/1983.89_full.tif