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Madame Millin du Perreux and Her Son, with a Painted Portrait of Monsieur Jérôme-Robert Millin du Perreux

c. 1760

Louis Carmontelle

(French, 1717–1806)
Culture
France, 18th century
Medium
red chalk, black chalk, and watercolor, heightened with white chalk or paint?
Support
Cream laid paper, laid down on beige laid paper
Measurements
Sheet: 31.5 x 20.1 cm (12 3/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.409
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Carmontelle was an amateur artist working in the circle of the Duke of Orléans (at that time, Louis Philippe d'Orléans, great-grandson of Monsieur, the brother of Louis XIV). Hundreds of the artist's drawn portraits survive, most of them similar to this one in format and technique. Carmontelle had an official appointment in the Orléans household as tutor to the Duke's son. Because of this, he met many of the most prominent men and women in France, whom he drew for his own amusement. The family in this drawing is identifiable because of another drawing of them by Carmontelle, now in the Musée Condé, in Chantilly (near Paris).
A vertically oriented chalk and watercolor drawing depicts a child and a woman, both with light skin tones, in an interior. From our left, the child in a plumed hat stands on a striped sofa draped in blue. To our right, the woman reclines in a voluminous, ruffled white dress while holding an open music book. Above, an oval portrait shows a man in a blue coat with powdered hair facing right.

Madame Millin du Perreux and Her Son, with a Painted Portrait of Monsieur Jérôme-Robert Millin du Perreux

c. 1760

Louis Carmontelle

(French, 1717–1806)
France, 18th century

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