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Antoine Watteau French, 1684 - 1721 Ceres (Summer), 1715/1716 oil on canvas overall (oval): 141.6 x 115.7 cm (55 3/4 x 45 9/16 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1961.9.50 |
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Provenance
Commissioned by Pierre Crozat [1665-1740], Paris, for the dining room of his hôtel on the rue de Richelieu; by inheritance with the hôtel to his nephew, Louis-François Crozat, marquis du Châtel [1691-1750], Paris; by inheritance with the hôtel to his daughter, duchesse de Gontaut-Biron, Paris; by inheritance to her sister, Louise-Honorine, duchesse de Choiseul [married Etienne François, duc de Choiseul (d. 1785) in 1750], Paris and Château de Chanteloup; (Choiseul sale, A.J. Paillet, Paris, 18 December 1786, no. 3, with Winter from the same series);[1] purchased by Meunier. Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, Paris and London; (his sale, Paris, 11 April-8 May 1791, 10th day [20 April], no. 204, with Winter); purchased by Rebes; (sale, Paris, 15 November 1791 and days following, no. 95, with Winter). Roehn [possibly Adolphe Eugéne Gabriel Roehn or Alphonse Roehn], by 1845; anonymous collection, London, by 1845. (Charles Wertheimer, London). (Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris), by 1895; sold 1898 to Sir Lionel Phillips, 1st bart. [d. 1936], Tylney Hall, Winchfield, Hampshire; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 25 April 1913, no. 72); purchased by Nicholson. Henri Michel-Lévy, Paris; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 12-13 May 1919, no. 28, possibly bought in); probably by inheritance to Léon Michel-Lévy, Paris; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 17-18 June 1925, no. 160); purchased by Batteroze. Charles-Louis Dreyfus, Paris, by 1928.[2] (Wildenstein & Co., New York and Paris), by 1935;[3] sold 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] Although the sale title refers to the "Duc de Choiseul", most or all of the property sold belonged to the duchesse. See Watteau, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1984: 325, no. 35.
[2] Published as with Dreyfus in Louis Dimier, Les peintres français du XVIIIe siècle. Histoire des vies et catalogue des oeuvres, 2 vols., Paris and Brussels, 1928-1930: 1(1928):31, no. 26.
[3] The painting was lent by Wildenstein to a 1935 exhibition in Copenhagen.
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