The Well-Loved Mother, 1765

Provenance

Jacques Doucet, Paris [1853 - 1929]; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 5 June 1912, no. 73); François Coty, Paris [1874 - 1934]; (his sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 30 November 1936, no. 21); Private Collection, France, and by descent (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 November 1999, no. 59); (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Exhibition History

1765

Salon of 1765, Paris, probably no. 115 ("Une Tête en pastel").

1908

Cent Pastels, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1908, no. 20.

2000

Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000-2001, 192-193 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

2002

Greuze the Draftsman, The Frick Collection, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. New York, 2002, 14, 24, 126, 202, no. 41 (shown in NY only) (Edgar Munhall).

2009

Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 170-171, 285, no. 74 (color).

2019

The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

n.d.

"Mémorial des Laborde," nos. 7, 11 (undated ms. in a private collection--cited in exh. cat. New York and Los Angeles 2000).

1765

Critiques des peintures et sculptures de Messieurs de l'Académie royale l'an 1765. Paris, 1765: 27.

1765

Mathon de La Cour, Charles-Joseph. Lettres a monsieur**, Sur les Peintures, les Sculptures & les Gravures exposées au Sallon du Louvre en 1765. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris (four letters contained in an album from the Deloynes collection, nos. 108-111): 8: 26-27.

1899

Dilke, Lady Emilia Francis Strong. French Painters of the XVIIIth Century. London, 1899: 132 note 5, 137.

1904

Tourneux, Maurice. "La Collection M. Jacques Doucet: Pastels et dessins." Les Arts 36 (1904): 24, 26, repro. p. 27.

1906

Mauclair, Camille. Jean-Baptiste Greuze. With an appended catalogue raisonné by Jean Martin and Charles Masson Paris, 1906: 14, 73, nos. 169, 1181 (the catalogue printed separately in 1908).

1908

Martin, Jean, and Charles Masson. Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Paris, 1908: 14, 73, nos. 169, 1181 (separate printing of the catalogue raisonné first published in Mauclair 1906).

1912

Nicolle, Marcel. Collection Doucet. Part I, Dessins et pastels du XVIIIe siècle. 1912 June 5. Sale cat. Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 1912: 77, no. 73.

1913

Rivers, John. Greuze and His Models. London, 1913: 202-208.

1930

Joubin, André. "Jacques Doucet." Gazette des Beaux Arts 72 (1930): reprod. p. 75, fig. 3 (not mentioned in text).

1957

Diderot, Denis. Salons. Texte établi et présenté par Jean Seznec et Jean Adhémar. 4 vols. Paris, 1957-1967, 2: 150-151, 155.

1975

Diderot, Denis. Salons, ed. Jean Seznec. 3 vols. Paris, 1979, 2: 35, no. 123, 153-156.

1982

Grigorieva, Irina Sergeevna, et al. Disegni dell'Europa occidentale dall'Ermitage di Leningrado. Exh. cat. Gabinetto disegni e stampi degli Uffizi. Florence, 1982: 81.

1984

Chapon, F. Mystère et splendeurs de Jacques Doucet, 1853-1929. Paris, 1984: 88.

1994

Barker, Emma. "Greuze and the Painting of Sentiment: The Family in French Art 1755-1785." Ph.D. dissertation, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1994, 118, 119, 127.

2003

Conisbee, Philip. Chardin's Têtes d'Études au pastel. Exh cat. Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd., London, 2003: 22-23, repr.

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