The Well-Loved Mother
1765
Artist, French, 1725 - 1805
Artwork overview
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Medium
pastel with colored chalks and stumping on light golden-brown laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 44 x 32.2 cm (17 5/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2000.15.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jacques Doucet, Paris [1853 - 1929]; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 5 June 1912, no. 73); François Coty, Paris [1874 - 1934]; (his sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 30 November 1936, no. 21); Private Collection, France, and by descent (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 November 1999, no. 59); (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London); purchased 2000 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1765
Salon of 1765, Paris, probably no. 115 ("Une Tête en pastel").
1908
Cent Pastels, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1908, no. 20.
2000
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000-2001, 192-193 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).
2002
Greuze the Draftsman, The Frick Collection, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. New York, 2002, 14, 24, 126, 202, no. 41 (shown in NY only) (Edgar Munhall).
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 170-171, 285, no. 74 (color).
2019
The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
n.d.
"Mémorial des Laborde," nos. 7, 11 (undated ms. in a private collection--cited in exh. cat. New York and Los Angeles 2000).
1765
Mathon de La Cour, Charles-Joseph. Lettres a monsieur**, Sur les Peintures, les Sculptures & les Gravures exposées au Sallon du Louvre en 1765. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris (four letters contained in an album from the Deloynes collection, nos. 108-111): 8: 26-27.
Critiques des peintures et sculptures de Messieurs de l'Académie royale l'an 1765. Paris, 1765: 27.
1899
Dilke, Lady Emilia Francis Strong. French Painters of the XVIIIth Century. London, 1899: 132 note 5, 137.
1904
Tourneux, Maurice. "La Collection M. Jacques Doucet: Pastels et dessins." Les Arts 36 (1904): 24, 26, repro. p. 27.
1906
Mauclair, Camille. Jean-Baptiste Greuze. With an appended catalogue raisonné by Jean Martin and Charles Masson Paris, 1906: 14, 73, nos. 169, 1181 (the catalogue printed separately in 1908).
1908
Martin, Jean, and Charles Masson. Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Paris, 1908: 14, 73, nos. 169, 1181 (separate printing of the catalogue raisonné first published in Mauclair 1906).
1912
Nicolle, Marcel. Collection Doucet. Part I, Dessins et pastels du XVIIIe siècle. 1912 June 5. Sale cat. Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 1912: 77, no. 73.
1913
Rivers, John. Greuze and His Models. London, 1913: 202-208.
1930
Joubin, André. "Jacques Doucet." Gazette des Beaux Arts 72 (1930): reprod. p. 75, fig. 3 (not mentioned in text).
1957
Diderot, Denis. Salons. Texte établi et présenté par Jean Seznec et Jean Adhémar. 4 vols. Paris, 1957-1967, 2: 150-151, 155.
1975
Diderot, Denis. Salons, ed. Jean Seznec. 3 vols. Paris, 1979, 2: 35, no. 123, 153-156.
1982
Grigorieva, Irina Sergeevna, et al. Disegni dell'Europa occidentale dall'Ermitage di Leningrado. Exh. cat. Gabinetto disegni e stampi degli Uffizi. Florence, 1982: 81.
1984
Chapon, F. Mystère et splendeurs de Jacques Doucet, 1853-1929. Paris, 1984: 88.
1994
Barker, Emma. "Greuze and the Painting of Sentiment: The Family in French Art 1755-1785." Ph.D. dissertation, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1994, 118, 119, 127.
2003
Conisbee, Philip. Chardin's Têtes d'Études au pastel. Exh cat. Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd., London, 2003: 22-23, repr.
Wikidata ID
Q64581129