18th century FRENCH school, after Maurice Quentin La Tour Portrait of Mrs. Restout Pastel 63 x 53 cm Provenance: Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, October 30, 2008, no. 141 (18th-century French school, Marie Leszczynska). Bibliography: N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition, consulted in September 2022, n° J.46.271 (copy) Copy of the composition of La Tour kept in the museum of Orleans.