Portrait of Jean Joseph Mondonville

Artist Charles Nicolas Cochin (French, 1715 - 1790)

Date1768

MediumBlack chalk on paper

DimensionsFramed: 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 1 inches (31.75 x 31.75 x 2.54 cm)
Overall: 4 11/16 inches (11.9126 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy

Object number81-30/17

SignedRecto, bottom center of drawn border: "C.N. Cochin filius delin. 1768."

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

University of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Charlottesville, VA, 1955.

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 59, as Portrait of M. Mondonville.

Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 6-June 5, 1983, no. 22, as Portrait of M. Mondonville.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 48, as Portrait of Jean Joseph Mondonville.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Portrait of Jean Joseph Mondonville.

Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 19-November 28, 2010, no cat., as Portrait of Jean Joseph Mondonville.

Gallery Label

Jean Joseph Mondonville (1711?1772) was a well-known violinist and composer. In 1740 he was appointed assistant chapel master to King Louis XV. He advocated the merits of French composers over their more fashionable Italian counterparts. The drawing shows him as a lively personality with lips open as if about to speak. The oval profile format was inspired by coins and medallions of famous individuals, a common format in antiquity, which was revived in the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

Provenance

Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, MA, by September 10, 1944-June 7, 1955;

Purchased from Hofer, through Durlacher Brothers, New York, stock no. P62, by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, June 7, 1955-1980 [1];

His bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

NOTES:

[1] Getty Research Library, Los Angeles, Durlacher Brothers Records, Box 14, Ledger 1937-1966.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 34-35, (repro.), as Portrait of M. Mondonville.

Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1982), unpaginated, (repro.), as Portrait of M. Mondonville.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 157-59, (repro.), as Portrait of Jean Joseph Mondonville.

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