A French Gentleman Standing

Jacques-André Portail1695/1759

Details

Title: A French Gentleman Standing
Creator: Jacques André Portail
Date Created: 1695/1759
Physical Dimensions: overall: 23.5 x 13.5 cm (9 1/4 x 5 5/16 in.)
Provenance: Possibly Richard Owen, Paris.[1] purchased 1940 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1963 to NGA. [1] According to Colin Eisler, _Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools, Excluding Italian_, Oxford, 1977: 308, n. 3, the drawing is possibly identical with the Portail drawing shown 16 October to 6 November 1933 in New York in the exhibition _French Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Collection of Richard Owen of Paris_ at the Joseph Brummer Galleries.
Medium: black and red chalk on laid paper

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