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Claude Lorrain French, 1600 - 1682 The Judgment of Paris, 1645/1646 oil on canvas Overall: 112.3 x 149.5 cm (44 3/16 x 58 7/8 in.) framed: 143.5 x 182.3 x 8.6 cm (56 1/2 x 71 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.) Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund 1969.1.1 |
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Provenance
Commissioned by François du Val, marquis de Fontenay-Mareuil [1594-1655], Rome and Paris. Le Danois, Paris, by c. 1740. Angran, vicomte de Fonspertuis, by 1747; (his sale, E.F. Gersaint, Paris, 4 March 1748 and days following, no. 426).[1] purchased by Agard or Devins. Mr. [possibly W.] David, London; (his sales ["A Merchant of Respectability"], Christie's, London, 17 July 1819, no. 58, not sold, and 26-27 May 1820, 2nd day, no. 114); Urbino Pizzetta, London.[2] acquired 1912 by the father of Miss V. Price, England; by inheritance to her; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1966, no. 9); (Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London); sold 13 February 1969 to NGA.
[1] On the painting's early history, see Marcel Röthlisberger, "Claude Lorrain in the National Gallery of Art," Report and Studies in the History of Art 1969, and Marcel Röthlisberger, Claude Lorraine: The Paintings, Vol. 1, New Haven, 1961: 254-255, no. LV94. Le Danois is recorded in the second index of the the Liber Veritatis, c. 1720. See also the provenance supplied by the Thomas Agnew and Sons invoice of 24 March 1969 (in NGA curatorial files).
[2] Information about the 1819 and 1820 sales provided by Lady Dorothy Lygon of Christie, Manson & Woods, letter of 21 September 1971 to J. Carter Brown (in NGA curatorial files). Pizzetta's collections were included in Christie's sales in 1820 and on 15-16 April 1825, but the NGA painting was not in either one.
Associated Names
- Agard
- Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
- Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
- David, W., Mr.
- Devins
- Fonspertuis, Angran, vicomte de
- Fontenay-Mareuil, François du Val, marquis de
- Le Danois
- Pizzetta, Urbino
- Price, Mr.
- Price, V., Miss
- Sale, Paris
- Sotheby's
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