Category:Madame de Pastoret and Her Son (Jacques-Louis David - Art Institute of Chicago)

**Portrait of Madame Adélaide Pastoret**
	painting by Jacques-Louis David
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Instance of	painting;
Main subject	Adélaïde de Pastoret;
Depicts	Adélaïde de Pastoret, woman, infant and Amédée-David de Pastoret
Made from material	oil paint; canvas (painting support);
Genre	portrait;
Location	Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Creator	Jacques-Louis David;
Owned by	Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret (1826–1840); Amédée-David de Pastoret (1840–1857); Marie de Pastoret (1857–1890);
Collection	Art Institute of Chicago (1967–);
Inventory number	1967.228 (Art Institute of Chicago);
Inception	1791;
Width	97 cm;
Height	130 cm;
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Madame de Pastoret and Her Son (Jacques-Louis David - Art Institute of Chicago)

Jacques-Louis David: Portrait of Madame Adélaide Pastoret

Artist



Description	French painter, politician and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death	30 August 1748	29 December 1825
Location of birth/death	Paris	City of Brussels
Work period	neoclassicism era QS:P2348,Q14378
Work location	Paris, Rome, City of Brussels
Authority file	: Q83155 VIAF: 66575297 ISNI: 0000000121374173 ULAN: 500115221 LCCN: n50035639 NLA: 35033606 MusicBrainz: 2eb0212f-d9db-4a68-827e-dcf3fd74e97b WGA: d/david_j Open Library: OL127935A DBNL: davi049 GND: 118523945 SELIBR: 183464 SUDOC: 034492771 BNF: 125243831 BPN: 85768976 NDL: 00437288 BIBSYS: 90391698 NKC: ola2002113722 Léonore: [ LH//673/3] SBN: CFIV056143 BNE: XX957053 CiNii: DA02198328 NLP: a0000001190803 KulturNav: d4fa3e04-e6b2-4ea0-be1d-d67d48ef79e1 RKD: 20163 J9U: 987007312026605171 Koninklijke: 069387591 NLK: KAC201719241 WorldCat

Title

Madame de Pastoret and Her Son

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

"The volatile events leading to the French Revolution make the date of Jacques-Louis David’s warm, fresh portrait of Adélaïde de Pastoret impossible to determine with certainty. They also probably account for the portrait’s unfinished state. David, a renowned Neoclassical painter, was at the time an ardent revolutionary; Madame de Pastoret was the wife of a staunch royalist. The sittings must have occurred after the birth, early in 1791, of her son, who is portrayed asleep by her side, and before her brief imprisonment during the Reign of Terror in 1792. Here David completed the stippled, almost monochromatic underpainting but did not create the stark, enamel-smooth surface that is characteristic of his finished paintings. He did not even get far enough to place a needle and thread in Madame de Pastoret’s hand. Nevertheless, this large portrait of unaffected domesticity captures the youthful mother with charm as well as dignity and displays David’s skill as a portraitist. Objecting to David’s revolutionary ideals, Madame de Pastoret (who became the marquise de Pastoret in 1817) refused the painting during the artist’s lifetime. After David’s death, she had her son, by then an adult, purchase the portrait from the artist’s estate." [1]

Depicted people

Date

1791

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 130 cm (51.1 in)

; width: 97 cm (38.1 in)

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

	Native name	Art Institute of Chicago
	Location	Chicago, United States of America
	Coordinates	41° 52′ 46″ N, 87° 37′ 26″ W
	Established	1879
	Website	www.artic.edu
	Authority file	: Q239303 VIAF: 131375374 ISNI: 0000000091672697 ULAN: 500304669 LCCN: n82144329 OSM: 1870546 WorldCat

Current location

Gallery 218

Accession number

1967.228 (Art Institute of Chicago)

Object history

Provenance:

In the artist’s possession until his death in 1825;
inventoried on February 27, 1826, at the apartment of his son Eugène, rue Cadet no. 11, Paris;
sold in David’s atelier sale, rue du Gros-Chenet no. 4, Paris, April 17, 1826, no. 16, for Fr 400, to Révile, acting on behalf of Emmanuel de Pastoret [price and buyer recorded in David 1880 and the 1897 sale catalogue].
Claude Emmanuel Joseph Pierre, marquis de Pastoret (died 1840), Château de Fleury-Meudon, Seine-et-Oise;
by descent to his granddaughter, Marie de Pastoret (died 1890), who in 1835 married Hervé de Rougé, marquis du Plessis-Bellière;
sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10–11, 1897, no. 21, for Fr 17,900, to Chéramy [La chronique des arts 1897 and Meier-Graefe and Klossowski 1908];
Paul Alfred Chéramy, Paris; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 5–7, 1908, no. 44 (ill.), for Fr 41,000, to Georges Petit, Paris [American Art News 1908;
the buyer is given by Schnapper in Paris 1974/75]. Comtesse Joachim Murat (née Thérèse Bianchi;
died 1940), Paris, by 1909 [lent by her to Paris 1909]; at her death to her sister, vicomtesse Fleury (née Renée Bianchi; died 1948); at her death to vicomte Fleury;
sold to Wildenstein, New York, c. 1965 [according to telephone conversation of Joseph Baillio with Susan Wise, March 4, 1988, note in curatorial file];
sold to the Art Institute, 1967.

Exhibition history

Paris, Palais du Domaine de Bagatelle, Exposition rétrospective de portraits de femmes sous les trios républiques, 1990, no. 48.
Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Petit Palais), David et ses élèves, 1913, no. 39.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Exposition rétrospective d’art français, 1926, no. 35.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, De David à Delacroix: La Peinture française de 1774 à 1830, 1974–1975, no. 34; traveled to Detroit and New York.
Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of the Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, no. 17.
Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits, 1600–1900, in The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, no. 12.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, and Versailles, Musée National du Château, Jacques-Louis David, 1748–1825, October 26, 1989–February 12, 1990, no. 116.
Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: French and British Paintings from 1700 to 1800,” 1996–1997, no cat.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Unfinished, Thoughts Left Invisible, March 7-September 5, 2016, cat. 74.

Credit line

Clyde M. Carr Fund and Major Acquisitions Endowment, 1967.228

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Media in category "Madame de Pastoret and Her Son (Jacques-Louis David - Art Institute of Chicago)"

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Jacques Louis David - Madame de Pastoret and Her Son - 1967.228 - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg 2,195 × 3,000; 1.84 MB
Jacques-Louis David Portrait of Madame Adélaide Pastoret.jpg 800 × 1,052; 120 KB
Jacques-louis david, madame de pastoret e suo figlio, 1791-92.jpg 2,016 × 2,520; 3.29 MB
Louise Pastoret par David.jpg 2,490 × 3,430; 1.99 MB
Madame de Pastoret and Her Son, 1791-1792, by Jacques-Louis David - Art Institute of Chicago - DSC09536.JPG 2,957 × 3,848; 3.8 MB