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Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing a Blue Ribbon at her Throat
Attributed to: Jean Martial Frédou (French, 1711–1795)
Medium/Technique
Pastel on paper
Dimensions
46.4 x 37.5 cm (18 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2664
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPastels
ProvenanceGeorges Bourgarel (b. 1857 - d. 1922), Paris; June 15 -16, 1922, Georges Bourgarel Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 79 [see note 1], sold for fr. 19,000 to Galerie Cailleux, Paris; November 12, 1927, sold by Cailleux to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA [see note 2]. (Accession date: January 8, 1969)
NOTES:
[1] Attributed to an unknown artist of the French school, 18th century, possibly the studio of Drouais. [2] The pastel was exhibited by Cailleux in 1923 and 1927 with an attribution to Nattier (thanks to Olafur Thorvaldsson for his assistance with this research). See Pastels Français des XVII et XVIII siècles (Paris and Brussels, 1927), p. 49, cat. no. 24. It was accesssioned by the MFA as the work of Nattier.
NOTES:
[1] Attributed to an unknown artist of the French school, 18th century, possibly the studio of Drouais. [2] The pastel was exhibited by Cailleux in 1923 and 1927 with an attribution to Nattier (thanks to Olafur Thorvaldsson for his assistance with this research). See Pastels Français des XVII et XVIII siècles (Paris and Brussels, 1927), p. 49, cat. no. 24. It was accesssioned by the MFA as the work of Nattier.