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Portrait of Mirabeau

Maker

(artist)
1745-1826

Title

Portrait of Mirabeau

Date of Production

(circa) 1789 - 1790

Medium

black chalk with added wash, white chalk, applied in some areas as bodycolour, on brown laid paper, cut into an oval and laid down on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 19.6 cm
Width: 17 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.732

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Related Works

Portrait of Mirabeau

Label Text

The politician and orator Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791) was one of the most frequently depicted figures of the French Revolution. Boze was one of the few artists for whom the count actually sat, and his pastel portrait, now in Versailles, served as a model for works in other media. The monochromatic palette and illusionistic frame suggest that the present work relates to an engraving after Boze’s portrait, published in 1790.

Provenance

Sotheby's (London), 27 - 28 June 1922, lot 69; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£2.1); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Special Display - French Portraits, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2013-02/09/2013

Joseph Boze, 1745-1826: portraitiste de l'ancien régime à la restauration, Musée Ziem, Martigues, 17/11/2004-20/02/2005

French drawings of the 17th and 18th century, Fermoy Art Gallery, King's Lynn, 1985 ...More

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968

French Masters - Rococo to Romanticism, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1961

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, 1959

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Three centuries of French taste, Batsford Gallery, London, 20/01/1932-20/02/1932 ...Less

Literature

Joseph Boze, 1745-1826: portraitiste de l'ancien régime à la restauration, Musée Ziem, Martigues, 2004-05
cat. no. 55
no. 55
Illus. repr.

French drawings of the 17th and 18th century, Fermoy Art Gallery, King's Lynn, 1985
cat. no. 8

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 110 ...More

Three centuries of French taste, Batsford Gallery, London, 1932, 1932 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, upper left: "E V O" (see tracing in file, not found in Heawood or Piccard).

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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