Jean-Marc Nattier French, 1685 - 1766 Madame de Caumartin as Hebe, 1753 oil on canvas, 102.5 x 81.5 cm (40 3/8 x 32 1/16 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1946.7.13

From the Tour: 18th-Century France — Chardin and Portraiture
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Traditionally Comtesse de Gramont d'Aster. Comtesse de Fleury, Paris.[1] Comtesse Louis de Montesquiou-Fezensac [née Claude Etiennette de Sauvan d'Aramon], Paris, by 1930.[2] (Wildenstein & Co., New York); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1946 to NGA.

[1] The picture was not included in any known Gramont or Fleury sales; however it has been published as being in these collections.

[2] Published in M. Louis Dimier, Les Peintres français du XVIIIe siècle, 1930: II:no. 64 as in collection of the comtesse Louis de Montesquiou. The Gramont, Fleury, and Montesquiou names also appear in the provenance provided by Wildenstein; see letter dated 14 April 1999 in NGA curatorial files.

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• Fleury, Comtesse de
• Gramont d'Aster, Comtesse de
• Kress Foundation, Samuel H. (Kress number K1395)
• Montesquiou-Fezensac, Louis de, Comtesse
• Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

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