Jacques Dumont, called Le Romain
c. 1742
- Medium
- black and white chalk with pastel
- Dimensions
- 30.8 × 20.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-191551
Maurice Quentin de La Tour specialized in portraiture, and was praised by his contemporaries for creating uncanny likenesses of his sitters. He often created these works using pastel, a rich and powdery drawing material. He took up the technique for this quickly drawn sketch, created directly in front of his friend, the painter Jacques Dumont. La Tour used the drawing as a guide for Dumont's face in two different large-scale portraits in pastel, one of which is in the Louvre in Paris. During the 1800s this sheet was owned by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, the brothers who, as writers and intel…
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1983.89
Registry history
- c. 1742 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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