Young Girl Reading

mid 18th century

Jacques André Portail

Artist, French, 1695 - 1759

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red and black chalk on buff laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 28.4 × 21.6 cm (11 3/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.180.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jean-Pierre Selz [Lynven, Inc.], New York); Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 1987, inv. D-F-248; placed on long-term loan at the Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 1993 [inv. 1.1993.114], returned in 200x; gift to NGA in 2018

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2017

  • Becoming a Woman in the Age of the Enlightenment: French Art from the Horvitz Collection. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville; Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA,, 2017-2019, 15, 95, no. 106, pl. 13 (color)(Melissa Hyde and Mary D. Sheriff).

Bibliography

1996

  • Salmon, Xavier. Jacques-André Portail, 1695-1759. Chaiers du dessin français 10 (Paris, 1996): 17, 40, no. 15.

1998

  • Clark, Alvin L., Jr., et al. Mastery and Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz. Exh. cat. Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, et al., 1998: 202 (fig. 1), 369 note 1, under cat. 48; 428, no. A.304.

Watermarks

fleur-de-lys in a crest with a crown above and ...IC(?) below

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