id: 166700 accession number: 2008.409 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.409 updated: 2022-01-04 17:44:29.243000 Madame Millin du Perreux and Her Son, with a Painted Portrait of Monsieur Jérôme-Robert Millin du Perreux, c. 1760. Louis Carmontelle (French, 1717-1806). Red chalk, black chalk, and watercolor, heightened with white chalk or paint?; sheet: 31.5 x 20.1 cm (12 3/8 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.409 title: Madame Millin du Perreux and Her Son, with a Painted Portrait of Monsieur Jérôme-Robert Millin du Perreux title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1765 current location: creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: red chalk, black chalk, and watercolor, heightened with white chalk or paint? department: Drawings collection: Drawings type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Louis Carmontelle (French, 1717-1806) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 31.5 x 20.1 cm (12 3/8 x 7 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream laid paper, laid down on beige laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin opening date: 2001-08-26T00:00:00 French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * La vie parisienne au XVIIIe siècle, Musée Carnavalet, Paris (1928), 31, no. 131;

Three French Reigns (Louis XIV, XV, & XVI), 25 Park Lane, London (1933), 20, no. 94;

Louis de Carmontelle Lecteur du Duc d'Orléans (1717-1806), André Weil [gallery], Paris (1933), 17, no. 13, repr.;

Chefs d'Oeuvre de l'Art Français, Palais National des Arts, Paris (1937), 242, no. 516. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Carmontelle was an amateur artist working in the circle of the Duke of Orléans (at that time, Louis Philippe d'Orléans, great-grandson of Monsieur, the brother of Louis XIV). Hundreds of the artist's drawn portraits survive, most of them similar to this one in format and technique. Carmontelle had an official appointment in the Orléans household as tutor to the Duke's son. Because of this, he met many of the most prominent men and women in France, whom he drew for his own amusement. The family in this drawing is identifiable because of another drawing of them by Carmontelle, now in the Musée Condé, in Chantilly (near Paris). --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Musée Carnavalet. La Vie Parisienne Au Xviiie Siècle. Paris: Payot, 1928. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 131, p. 31 url: Carmontelle, Louis Vauxcelles, and Galerie André Weil. Louis De Carmontelle, Lecteur Du Duc D'orléans (1717-1806) : Dessins, Aquarelles, Gouaches, Décors Transparants Animés, Manuscrits, Estampes. Paris: André Weil, 1933. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 13, p. 17 url: Maurois, André. Three French Reigns: Louis XIV, XV and XVI. [London]: [publisher not identified], 1933. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 94, p. 20 url: Galerie Charpentier. Cent chefs-d'œuvre de l'art français, 1750-1950. Paris: Galerie Charpentier, 1957. page number: Mentioned: cat. 516, p. 242 url: Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 18, p. 46-47 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.409/2008.409_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.409/2008.409_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.409/2008.409_full.tif