Study for a Portrait of a Man | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1979.66
People: Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, French (Saint-Quentin 1704 - 1788 Saint-Quentin)
Title: Study for a Portrait of a Man
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/295615

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Pastel on discolored blue antique laid paper
Dimensions: 27.7 x 22.8 cm (10 7/8 x 9 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.66

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Accession Year: 1979
Object Number: 1979.66
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 29, p. 39, repr. p. 106
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, Unicorn Press (London, 2006), p. 311, repr.
Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), p. 18, fig. 6

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