An Elderly Lady in a Mauve Silk Dress, 1767

Not on View

Medium

pastel on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (oval): 61.4 x 51.2 cm (24 3/16 x 20 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke

Accession Number

2001.21.1

Artists / Makers

Claude Bornet (artist) French, 1733 - 1804

Image Use

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Inscription

by the artist, lower right in graphite: Bornet fecit / 1767

Provenance

Mme. Thalmann, by 1927;[1] Private collection, France, then by descent to a nephew from c. 1950 until 1999; (Artemis SA Luxembourg Succursale de Geneve, Switzerland); purchased 2001 by NGA.

[1] See provenance information in Quentin de la Tour et des Pastellistes Francaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles en l'Hôtel Jean Charpentier. Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Paris, 1927, no. 115 (Emile Dacier and P. Ratouis de Limay).

Claim file at National Archives has been checked. This drawing does not appear to be among those taken by the ERR from Thalmann.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.
Chardeau, Gilles, M.
Guiraud, Mme.
Thalmann, Richard

Exhibition History

1927: Quentin de la Tour et des Pastellistes françaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Paris, 1927, no. 115 (Emile Dacier and P. Ratouis de Limay).

1933: Exposition du pastel français du XVIIe siècle à nos jours. Monsieur André J. Seligmann, Paris, 1933, no. 3 (Claude Roger-Marx).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 222-223, 289, no. 96 (color).

Bibliography

1946: Ratouis de Limay, Paul. Le pastel en France au dix-huitième siècle. Paris, 1946: 163, pl LV, no. 83.

2006: Jeffares, Neil. Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800. London, 2006: 64 (reprod.).