Madame Millin du Perreux and Her Son, with a Painted Portrait of Monsieur Jérôme-Robert Millin du Perreux (c. 1760): Art, History and Details

Madame Millin du Perreux and Her Son, with a Painted Portrait of Monsieur Jérôme-Robert Millin du Perreux (c. 1760) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Louis Carmontelle (French, 1717–1806).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Carmontelle was an amateur artist working in the circle of the Duke of Orléans (at that time, Louis Philippe d'Orléans, great-grandson of Monsieur, the brother of Louis XIV). Hundreds of the artist's drawn portraits survive, most of them similar to this one in format and technique. Carmontelle had an official appointment in the Orléans household as tutor to the Duke's son. Because of this, he met many of the most prominent men and women in France, whom he drew for his own amusement. The family in this drawing is identifiable because of another drawing of them by Carmontelle, now in the Musée Condé, in Chantilly (near Paris).

Object facts

• Title: Madame Millin du Perreux and Her Son, with a Painted Portrait of Monsieur Jérôme-Robert Millin du Perreux
• Date: c. 1760
• Creator attribution: Louis Carmontelle (French, 1717–1806)
• Culture: France
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: red chalk, black chalk, and watercolor, heightened with white chalk or paint?
• Dimensions: Sheet: 31.5 x 20.1 cm (12 3/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2008.409

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Musée Carnavalet. La Vie Parisienne Au Xviiie Siècle. Paris: Payot, 1928.
• Carmontelle, Louis Vauxcelles, and Galerie André Weil. Louis De Carmontelle, Lecteur Du Duc D'orléans (1717-1806) : Dessins, Aquarelles, Gouaches, Décors Transparants Animés, Manuscrits, Estampes. Paris: André Weil, 1933.
• Maurois, André. Three French Reigns: Louis XIV, XV and XVI. [London]: [publisher not identified], 1933.

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