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Maurice Quentin de La Tour

Jacques Dumont, called Le Romain

c. 1742
black and white chalk with pastel

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This drawing resembles two pastel portraits that Maurice Quentin de La Tour made of Jacques Dumont during the 1740s, but one work shows the sitter about to paint, while the other shows him playing a guitar.

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