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

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

c. 1760
(French, 1717–1806)
France, 18th century
red chalk, black chalk, and watercolor, heightened with white chalk or paint?
Sheet: 31.5 x 20.1 cm (12 3/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.409
Location: not on view

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).
  • Musée Carnavalet. La Vie Parisienne Au Xviiie Siècle. Paris: Payot, 1928. Mentioned: cat. no. 131, p. 31
    Carmontelle, Louis Vauxcelles, and Galerie André Weil. Louis De Carmontelle, Lecteur Du Duc D'orléans (1717-1806) : Dessins, Aquarelles, Gouaches, Décors Transparants Animés, Manuscrits, Estampes. Paris: André Weil, 1933. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 13, p. 17
    Maurois, André. Three French Reigns: Louis XIV, XV and XVI. [London]: [publisher not identified], 1933. Mentioned: cat. no. 94, p. 20
    Galerie Charpentier. Cent chefs-d'œuvre de l'art français, 1750-1950. Paris: Galerie Charpentier, 1957. Mentioned: cat. 516, p. 242
    Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 18, p. 46-47
  • French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
    Chefs d'Oeuvre de l'Art Français, Palais National des Arts, Paris (1937), 242, no. 516.
    Three French Reigns (Louis XIV, XV, & XVI), 25 Park Lane, London (1933), 20, no. 94;
    Louis de Carmontelle Lecteur du Duc d'Orléans (1717-1806), André Weil [gallery], Paris (1933), 17, no. 13, repr.;
    La vie parisienne au XVIIIe siècle, Musée Carnavalet, Paris (1928), 31, no. 131;
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