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image of Madame Bergeret
François Boucher (artist)
French, 1703 - 1770
Madame Bergeret, possibly 1766
oil on canvas
overall: 143.5 x 105.4 cm (56 1/2 x 41 1/2 in.) framed: 172.4 x 134.3 cm (67 7/8 x 52 7/8 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1946.7.3
On View
From the Tour: 18th-Century France — The Rococo and Watteau
Object 4 of 9
1942Wildenstein, George. François Boucher (1703-1770): Portrait of Mme. Bergeret. New York, [1942]: 1-4
1944"Kress Makes Important Donation of French Painting to the Nation." Art Digest. vol. 18, no. 19 (1 August 1944): 5
1944"One of the Greatest Donations of XVIIIth Century French Painting Ever Received by a Museum-The Kress Collection." The Illustrated London News, 115, no. 2992 (26 August 1944): 249, repro.
1944"The Almanac: French Paintings Given to the National Gallery." The Magazine Antiques. vol. XLVI, no. 5 (November 1944): 288, repro.
1944Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 116, color repro.
1944Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 78, color repro. no. 81
1945Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 164, repro.
1948Wildenstein and Company. French XVIII Century Paintings. New York, 1948: 4
1956Einstein, Lewis. "Looking at French Eighteenth Century Pictures in Washington." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 6th ser., vol. 67, no. 1048-1049 (May-June 1956): 227-228, repro. 225
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): 34, pl. 95
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 363, repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 6.
1961Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 185, color repro. no. 176
1961Wildenstein, Georges. "Un amateur de Boucher et de Fragonard: Jacques-Onésyme Bergeret (1715-1785)." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 6th ser., vol. 58, no. 1110-1111 (July-August 1961): 40, 43, 46, 54, repro. 42
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 317, repro.
1964Walker 1964, 317, repro.
1965Cooke, H. Lester. Galeria Nacional de Washington, Madrid, 1965: 298, repro., color repro. 71
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 18
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:312, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 10, repro.
1971Slatkin, Regina Shoolman. "Portraits of François Boucher." Apollo 94, n.s. no. 116 (October 1971): 286
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 336, no. 449, color repro.
1976Ananoff, Alexandre. "François Boucher et l'Amérique." L'Oeil 251 (June 1976): 23.
1976Ananoff, Alexandre, with Daniel Wildenstein. François Boucher. 2 vols. Lausanne and Paris, 1976: I:410, no. 301, repro.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 319-320, fig. 284.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 85, pl. 73, color repro.
1980Ananoff, Alexandre, with Daniel Wildenstein. L'opera completa di Boucher. Milan, 1980: no. 312, repro. p. 110, color pl. XXVIII.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 334, no. 445, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 58, repro.
1986Brunel, Georges. Boucher. New York, 1986: 241-243, fig. 199, pl. XXVIII.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 169, repro.
2005The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier. A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein's Presence in New York. Exh. cat. Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 2005: 56, fig. 40, 72 (not in the exhibition).
2009Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 6, 33-38, color repro.

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