DrawingsFrench18th century

Jean-Charles Garnier, Seigneur d’Isle

c. 1751

Artists

Maurice-Quentin de La TourArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Pastel on paper, wrapped around and adhered to canvas

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

64.4 x 53.9 cm (25 3/8 x 21 1/4 in.) frame: 86 × 75.2 cm (33 7/8 × 29 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Jean-Charles Garnier, Seigneur d’Isle, Paris (by 1755); Garnier family, Belle-Île, by descent; Monsieur Boussode, Nancy; David David-Weill, Paris (by 1907); Wildenstein and Co., New York (by 1937), sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.863

Related Artworks

Drawings

La Soubrette Confidente (The Trusted Source)

Nicolas Lavreince, c. 1780

Gouache on off-white antique-laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Blank page; verso: View of a Garden with a Statue

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1758

Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Duck Looking to the Left; verso: Two Dead Wild Ducks

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Two Sketchbook Pages: Dramatic Scenes from Classical Literature

Unidentified Artist, 18th century

Black ink over graphite on discolored white paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Sketchbook page

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, c. 1776

Graphite on cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Three Wall Elevations and the Floor of a Bathroom

Charles Percier, c. 1798-1804

Watercolor on white antique laid paper

18th-19th centuryFrench

Drawings

Rustic Landscape with a Cottage

Charles-Michel-Ange Challes, 18th century

Red chalk, extensively stumped, and white chalk on tan antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Saint Gregory the Great Imploring the Madonna to Rid Rome of the Plague

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1761

Black chalk over a black chalk counterproof on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face, framing lines in graphite

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Squawking Bird with Talons Extended to the Right; verso: blank

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench