An Elderly Lady in a Mauve Silk Dress

Provenance

Mme. Thalmann, by 1927;[1] Private collection, France, then by descent to a nephew from c. 1950 until 1999; (Artemis SA Luxembourg Succursale de Geneve, Switzerland); purchased 2001 by NGA. [1] See provenance information in _Quentin de la Tour et des Pastellistes Francaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles en l'Hôtel Jean Charpentier_. Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Paris, 1927, no. 115 (Emile Dacier and P. Ratouis de Limay). Claim file at National Archives has been checked. This drawing does not appear to be among those taken by the ERR from Thalmann.

An Elderly Lady in a Mauve Silk Dress

Bornet, Claude

1767

Accession Number

2001.21.1

Medium

pastel on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (oval): 61.4 x 51.2 cm (24 3/16 x 20 3/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke