Anne Marie Louise Nicole de Lamoignon de Malsherbes, Countess of Sénozan

ca. 1751

Jean Valade French, 1710-1787

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Anne Marie Louise Nicole de Lamoignon de Malsherbes, Countess of Sénozan

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Title Anne Marie Louise Nicole de Lamoignon de Malsherbes, Countess of Sénozan

Artwork Date ca. 1751

Artist Jean Valade

Life Dates 1710-1787

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pastel on blue laid paper

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

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit 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

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 68.173

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Provenance

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)

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Published References

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.).

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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.