Nicolas de Largillierre French, 1656 - 1746 A Young Man with His Tutor, 1685 oil on canvas, 146 x 114.8 cm (57 1/2 x 45 3/16 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1961.9.26

From the Tour: 18th-Century France — Chardin and Portraiture
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Baron de Marenzi [d. 1845], Bruges; by inheritance to the Dowager de Doncquers, Bruges.[1] Sénateur Prosper Crabbe, Brussells; (Crabbe sale, Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 12 June 1890, no. 38, as Bossuet and the Grand Dauphin); purchased by Duc de Gramont; (Gramont sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 May 1925, no. 10, as Bossuet and the Grand Dauphin); Joseph Fuller Feder [d. 1944], New York, until at least 1935.[2] (French and Co., New York); sold 1955 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] According to the 1890 Crabbe sale catalogue.

[2] The painting was lent by Feder to a 1935 exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, and it was still identified as in the Feder collection in Anthony Blunt, Art and Architecture in France, 1954.

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• Crabbe, Prosper, Sénateur
• Doncquers, Dowager de
• Feder, Joseph Fuller
• French & Company
• Galerie Georges Petit
• Gramont, Duc de
• Kress Foundation, Samuel H. (Kress number K2083)
• Marenzi, Baron de
• Sedelmeyer, Galerie

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