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Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French, 1704–1788)
Jean Charles Garnier d'Isle (1697–1755)
Pastel and gouache on paper, laid down on canvas
25 3/8 x 21 1/4 in. (64.5 x 54 cm)
Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 2002
2002.439
La Tour completed this portrait in about 1750; it is one of three different pastels by the artist of the sitter. Garnier d'Isle, "dessinateur des jardins du roi," designed the parks and gardens of Bellevue, Crécy, and La Celle Saint-Cloud for the royal mistress of Louis XV, Madame de Pompadour. The portrait is typical of La Tour, who favored smooth, blended handling of the pastel medium. This or another of the three pastels was exhibited to critical acclaim at the Paris salon of 1751.