Portrait of a Man
c. 1757
Artist, French, 1715 - 1783

Artwork overview
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Medium
pastel on blue laid paper, mounted on canvas (on strainer/stretcher)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 55.4 x 45.5 cm (21 13/16 x 17 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1991.182.7
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Catalogue Raisonné
D'Arnoult 2014: no. 199 Pa
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Galerie Heim, Paris); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 8 May 1972; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1973
Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century, William H. Schab Gallery, New York, and tour, 1973-74, no. 105.
1976
Old Master Drawings from American Collections. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1976, no. 156 (Ebria Feinblatt).
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 85 (entry by Ann MacNary).
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, no.
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
2019
The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
n.d.
Neil Jeffares, "Jean-Baptiste Perronneau." Dictionary of pastellists before 1800. London, 2006; online edition [http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/Glain.pdf], accessed 8 August 2018: no. J.582.1837
1995
Jones, Jennifer. "The Woodner Collections at the National Gallery." Drawing 17 (September-October 1995): 53, fig. 9.
2006
Jeffares, Neil. Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800. London, 2006: 410-411.
2014
D'Arnoult, Dominique. Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, ca. 1715 - 1783. Paris, 2014: no. 199 Pa, illustrated on 193, and 200, note 1049.
Inscriptions
upper right in graphite: Perronneau
Wikidata ID
Q64581176