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Portrait of a French Actress

c. 1746

attributed to Jacques-Charles Allais

(French, c. 1704-c. 1759)

France, 18th century

Pastel

Support: Vellum

Unframed: 63.8 x 48.2 cm (25 1/8 x 19 in.)

Gift of Edward B. Greene 1946.464

Location

not on view

Provenance

Adrian Hope (1909); (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Paris, 1939); E. B. Greene

E. B. Greene

Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co, Paris, 1939

Adrian Hope (1909)

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 519; Mentioned: p. 519-521

Exhibition history

Henry S. Francis, "Three Eighteenth-Century Portraits," CMA Bull., Vol. 34 (November 1947), pp. 213-214, repr. p. 236.

European Paintings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries (CMA 1982), cat. no. 226, repr.

European & American Painting in The Cleveland Museum of Art. A Summary Catalogue compiled by Alan Chong (CMA 1993), p. 133, repr.