Anne Marie Louise Nicole de Lamoignon de Malsherbes, Countess of Sénozan, ca. 1751

  • Jean Valade, French, 1710-1787

Pastel on blue laid paper

  • Sheet: 31 5/8 × 26 3/8 inches (80.3 × 67 cm)
  • 44 3/8 inches × 38 1/16 inches × 4 inches (112.7 × 96.7 × 10.2 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Founders Fund and City of Detroit Insurance Account, with contributions from Robert H. Kanzler, Mrs Edsel B. Ford, Cristina and Henry Ford II, Mr. and Mrs. Benson Ford, Robert H. Tannahill and Mrs. Allan Shelden in memory of Ernest Kanzler

68.173

Anne-Christian de Montmorency, nephew of Mme. de Sénozan (Paris, France)

1821, bequest to his son, Anne-Édouard-Louis-Joseph de Montmorency, duc de Beaumont (Paris, France)

1878, bequest to his daughter, Anne-Marie-Eugénie de Montmorency-Beaumont-Luxembourg (Paris, France)

bequest to her son, Marie-Joseph-Armand-Jacques, Comte de Durfort. Francis Guérault (Paris, France)

March 21-22, 1935, sold by (Hôtel Guérault, Paris, France) no. 27. Jacques Stern (Paris, France). by 1963, Galerie Jean Cailleux (Paris, France). 1968, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Art News 33, no. 23 (1935): p. 19 (ad for Guérault sale). Bury, Adrian. Maurice-Quentin de la Tour: The Greatest Pastel Portraitist. London, Edinburgh, and Oslo, 1971, p. 36 (ill.) (pl. v.). "La Collection Francis Guérault." Beaux-Arts, 112 (February 22, 1935): p. 5. Cummings, Frederick J. "An Eighteenth Century Portrait of Mme. de Sénozan." Bulletin of the DIA 47, 3/4 (1968): pp. 56-59 (ill. on cover). Imbourg, P. "Un amateur d'art et un grand philanthrope: M. Francis Guérault." Beaux-Arts, 109 (February 1, 1935): p. 3. Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, p. 155 (pl. XXVII), pp. 212-213, no. 100. Leroy, Alfred. Maurice Quentin de Latour. Paris, 1953, p. 113. "Old Master Paintings and Drawings of the 18th Century: Cailleux." Apollo 68, 22 (December 1963): xxxix. "Recent Accessions." Apollo 88, 81 (November 1968): p. 394-395. "Quentin de la Tour: Portrait de la comtesse de Sénozan." La Chronique des Arts, 1201 (February 1969): (ill.) p. 70, no. 289 (fig. 8) (supplement to La Gazette des Beaux-Arts). "Les Ventes." Le Bulletin de l'Art ancient et moderne, 814 (April 1935): pp. 210-211, 215 (ill.).

Jean Valade, Anne Marie Louise Nicole de Lamoignon de Malsherbes, Countess of Sénozan, ca. 1751, pastel on blue laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Founders Fund and City of Detroit Insurance Account, et al., 68.173.