Portrait of Maurice-Quentin de la Tour (Der Maler De la Tour)

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Portrait of Maurice-Quentin de la Tour (Der Maler De la Tour)

Artist Georg Friedrich Schmidt (German, 1712-1775)

Date1772

DimensionsOverall: 13 7/8 x 11 1/4 in. (354 x 285mm)
Plate mark: 13 x 9 3/4 in. (329 x 248mm)

MediumEngraving

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Edward T. Hill

Object number

2002.18

Not on View

DescriptionEngraving after the portrait of Maurice-Quentin de la Tour, the larger of two. Written in pencil on bottom of mat: George Friedrich Schmidt, Portrait of Maurice Quentin de la Tour, engraving (after de la Tour's self-portrait, 1772). In pencil on verso: 34927. A purple stamp is visible but unreadable. A red stamp: Duplicate. On recto in pencil: 1. ?Mr. Schmidt ½ 2. Schmidt ½ M.Q de la Tour de Kleine ½ Anderson 59. Engraved into the plate: Peint par la même ½ ABerlin duz L'Auteur a la nouvelle Cologne sur le Canal ½ Gravé par son ami G.F. Schmidt graveur du Roy en 1772. Designed into center of image: Maurice Quentin de la Tour, P?eintre du Roy et Conseiller en son Academie Royale de Peinture et sculptre. Engraving after the portrait of Maurice-Quentin de la Tour, the larger of two. Written in pencil on bottom of mat: George Friedrich Schmidt, Portrait of Maurice Quentin de la Tour, engraving (after de la Tour's self-portrait, 1772). In pencil on verso: 34927. A purple stamp is visible but unreadable. A red stamp: Duplicate. On recto in pencil: 1. ?Mr. Schmidt ½ 2. Schmidt ½ M.Q de la Tour de Kleine ½ Anderson 59. Engraved into the plate: Peint par la même ½ ABerlin duz L'Auteur a la nouvelle Cologne sur le Canal ½ Gravé par son ami G.F. Schmidt graveur du Roy en 1772. Designed into center of image: Maurice Quentin de la Tour, P?eintre du Roy et Conseiller en son Academie Royale de Peinture et sculptre.

Published Referencescf. Jacoby, Ludwig David. Schmidts Werke, oder; beschreibendes Verzeichniss sämtlicher Kupferstiche und Radirungen . . . (Berlin: Jacoby's Kunsthandlung, 1815): no. 50. cf. Adrian Bury, Maurice-Quentin de la Tour: the Greatest pastel Portraitist (London: Charles Skilton, 1971): 48-49, pl. 8, 51. cf. Albert Besnard, La Tour: La Vie et l'oeuvre de l'artiste (Paris: Édition d'études et de documents, 1928): frontispiece, 74, 149. cf. Joseph Strutt, A Biographical Dictionary of all the engravers, tome 1 (Genèvè: Minkoff, 1972): 305.Exhibition HistoryUnknown TMA About Face Sept.30 - Dec.31 2005Comparative ReferencesDeaccessioned by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (accession no. R3222). The Fogg acquired the print from the Randall Collection in 1898. Purchased by Ed Hill from a Toledo collector in the 1980s (Dr. David Steadman). In 1971, Fogg curator Jerry Cohn made a decision to deaccession duplicate prints to provide funds for future acquisitions. This does not reflect on the quality of the print.