About the Artwork
Monsieur Denis-Paul le Pot de la Fontaine
1772
François Hubert Drouais
1727-1775
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 36 3/8 × 28 7/8 inches (92.4 × 73.3 cm) Framed: 43 1/2 × 36 1/4 × 3 1/4 inches (110.5 × 92.1 × 8.3 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Benson and Edith Ford Fund
64.73
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, center right: Drouais | 1772
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Provenance
de la Fontaine family
1964, (Schaeffer Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
1964-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Institute Collects. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1964, p. 15.
Jewelry and Finery, 18th Through 20th Centuries. Exh. cat., John Herron Museum of Art. Indianapolis, 1967, no. 1 (ill.).
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François Hubert Drouais, Monsieur Denis-Paul le Pot de la Fontaine, 1772, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Benson and Edith Ford Fund, 64.73.
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