Jean-Louis Lambert (1698-1742)
Self-portrait of the artist in a striped silk housecoat
Pastel on paper mounted on canvas.
Signed with pen on the back "Joannes Ludovicus Lambert aetatis suae 44 delineavit et traxit Domina Domina ferret anno 1742"
Provenance :
• France, Private Collection
• Sold in Paris, March 3 1937.
Bibliography :
• Connaissance des Arts, March 2010, n° 680, reproduced p. 103.
• Neil Jeffares, « Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 », Unicorn press, 2006, referenced p. 275 (not reproduced).
• Christine Debrie, Xavier Salmon, « Maurice Quentin de la Tour, Prince des pastellistes », somogy, Paris, 2001.
• Ratouis de Limay, 1946.
