A French Gentleman Standing

Jacques André Portail

Artist, French, 1695 - 1759

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 23.5 x 13.5 cm (9 1/4 x 5 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.15.24

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly Richard Owen, Paris.[1] purchased 1940 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1963 to NGA.
[1] According to Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools, Excluding Italian, Oxford, 1977: 308, n. 3, the drawing is possibly identical with the Portail drawing shown 16 October to 6 November 1933 in New York in the exhibition French Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Collection of Richard Owen of Paris at the Joseph Brummer Galleries.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Figure Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

Bibliography

1977

  • Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: p.308: dK589, fig.273 (as "A Cavalier").

1996

  • Salmon, Xavier. Jacques André Portail: 1675-1754. Cahiers du dessin français No. 10, Galerie de Bayser, ed. 1996: 20, 66, no. 41.

Inscriptions

on verso in brown ink: chez

Watermarks

Bunch of grapes

Wikidata ID

Q64580096

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