Attributed to Francis Xavier Vispré, active 1730–1790Formerly attributed to Francis Cotes, 1726–1770, British
Title:
Louis François Roubiliac
Date:
ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:
Pastel on moderately textured, wove paper, mounted to canvas
Dimensions:
Sheet: 24 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches (62.2 × 54.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.132
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Fame and Friendship : Pope , Roubiliac , and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-02-20 - 2014-05-19)Fame and Friendship : Pope , Roubiliac , and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust (Waddesdon (NT), 2014-06-18 - 2014-10-26)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
Publications:
Art : The Definitive Visual History, DK Publishing, New York, 2018, p. 264, NX440 .A785 2018 Oversize (YCBA)Malcolm Baker, The marble index : Roubiliac and sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2014, pp. 226, 227;, fig. 250, NB466 .B355 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Katherine Ada McDowall Esdaile, The life and works of Louis François Roubiliac, Oxford University Press, London, 1928, pp. 180-190, NJ18 R764 E83 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Fame & friendship, Pope, Roubiliac, and the portrait bust in eighteenth-century Britain , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 2014, p. 25, V 2515 (YCBA)Edward Mead Johnson, Francis Cotes, Phaidon, Oxford, 1976, no. 82, NJ18 C799 A12 J64 + (YCBA)John F. Kerslake, Early Georgian portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1977, Vol. 1, p. 238, fig. 697, N1090 A591 (YCBA)Tessa Violet Murdoch, Roubiliac and Sprimont : a friendship revisited, Burlington Magazine, vol. 165, June 2023, p. 600, fig. 1, N1 .B87 Oversize (YCBA)Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, pp. 48-49, no. 51, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 21, no. 6, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)