Portrait of a Woman in a Rose-Colored Gown

Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French, 1704–1788)

about 1755

Medium/TechniquePastel on paper

Dimensions63.5 x 53.3 cm (25 x 21 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

Accession number65.2661

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ClassificationsPastels

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ProvenanceCamille Groult (b. 1837 - d. 1908), Paris; by inheritance to his widow, Alice-Emilie Thomas Tassin de Moncourt Groult (b. 1837 - d. 1918), Paris [see note 1]; probably by descent to their son, Jean Groult (b. 1868 - d. 1951), Paris [see note 2]; March 21, 1952, Camille Groult collection sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, lot 66, to Georges de Batz and Co., New York, for Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 8, 1969)

NOTES:
[1] This pastel is visible in a photograph of the Groult collection published by Albert Flament, "La Collection Groult," L'Illustration, January 18, 1908, p. 50. An undated inventory of Mme. Groult's collection lists "27. Latour, Jeune Femme avec un cahier de musique" in the Grand Hall of her residence. Many thanks to Ólafur Thorvaldsson for this information.

[2] The pastel was published in 1928 by Albert Besnard, La Tour: La Vie et l'Oeuvre de l'Artiste (Paris: Les Beaux Arts, 1928), p. 177, cat. no. 612, fig. 119, as being in a private collection ("M[r]. X"), Paris.