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Pierre Paul Prud'hon French, 1758 - 1823 David Johnston, 1808 oil on canvas Overall: 54.6 x 46.4 cm (21 1/2 x 18 1/4 in.) framed: 74.3 x 66.7 x 12.4 cm (29 1/4 x 26 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1961.9.84 |
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Provenance
The portrait's original owner is said to have been the sitter [1789-1854],[1] Bordeaux, France; by descent to the Johnston family, Bordeaux. Edouard-Napoléon-Cesar-Edmond Mortier, duc de Trévise [1883-1946], Paris, in 1913; (his sale, Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Paris, 19 May 1938, no. 36); (Robert Lebel, Paris).[2] (Julius H. Weitzner, New York); sold 1952 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] Information that the picture remained with the Johnston family until its purchase for the duc de Trévise in 1913 was first publisheed by Charles Sterling in Chefs-d-oeuvre de l'art français (Exh. cat. Palais National des Arts, Paris, 1937: 105, no. 211). It was not repeated in the catalogue of the Trévise sale in 1938.
[2] An annotated copy of Trévise sale catalogue gives Lebel, one of the experts at the sale, as the buyer.
Associated Names
- Galerie Charpentier
- Johnston, David
- Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
- Lebel, Robert
- Mortier, duc de Trévise, Édouard Napoléon César Edmond
- Weitzner, Julius H.
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