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Francesco Bartolozzi
1727-1815
Portrait of Pierre-Noël Violet (1749-1819)
1776
Black, red and white chalk, with opaque brown on laid paper.
7 x 5 9/16 inches (178 x 141 mm), oval
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Mrs. Horace Havemayer, Mrs. H. J. Heinz, II, and Mr. and Mrs. James R. Houghton.
1982.78
Inscription:
Signed and dated at lower left, in black chalk, "Bartolo" [cut off by portfolio held by sitter] / 1776".
Provenance:
W.-A. Destailleur, Paris (no mark; see Lugt S. 1303a-b); Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 234.
Notes:
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Associated names:
Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893, former owner.
Havemayer, Horace, Mrs., donor.
Heinz, H. J., Mrs., donor.
Houghton, James R., donor.
Houghton, James R., Mrs., donor.
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