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Portrait of Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville

Maurice-Quentin de La TourLinkedCulture matchlcp-796e83dcfe1e

Date: 1746/47
Medium: Pastel on blue-gray laid paper, laid down on board
Culture: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 155912

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This virtuoso violinist and composer (1711-1772) was second in command at the royal chapel and director of the Orchestra of the Spiritual Concert, both important musical institutions in eighteenth century Paris, and was as renowned for his theater pieces as he was for his motets. La Tour was a close friend, and a newly elected member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, when he captured this informal but sympathetic pose of de Mondonville tuning his violin. It was shown in the Salon of 1747.

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Credit line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Provenance: M. and Mme. de Mondonville [invoice]; by descent to their son, to 1782 [invoice]. Deloynes, France [invoice]. Private Collection, Liege [invoice]. Watel-Dehaynin, 1920s-2001 [invoice]. Sold by Emmanuel Moatti, New York and Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.