- Inscription
- Provenance
- Exhibition History
- Bibliography
Overview
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Inscription
at upper left along left edge, in graphite: 7813 (?)
Marks and Labels
null
Provenance
Frédéric Villot (sale, Paris, 16-18 May 1859, no. 143); purchased by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (Lugt 1089) (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 February 1897, no. 146); acquired by Georges Hugo. Émile Straus (sale, galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3-4 June 1929, no. 74); Myron A. Hofer; gift in 1944 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1860
- Tableaux et dessins de l'école française, principalement du XVIIIe siècle, tirés de collections d'amateurs, Paris, Salle Martinet, 1860, no. 280.
- 1879
- Exposition de dessins de maîtres anciens, Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, 1879, no. 494.
- 1883
- L'Art du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Galerie Georges-Petit, 1883-1884, no. 211.
- 1933
- Goncourt. Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1933, no. 322 (a photo of the drawing exhibited).
- 1958
- Dessins français des collections américaines, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen and Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, 1958-1959, no. 63, pl. 44.
- 1959
- French Drawings from American Collections, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959, no. 63, pl. 38a.
- 1974
- French 18th and 19th Century Drawings, Washington, The Phillips Collection, 1974.
- 1991
- Nicolas Lancret: 1690-1743. Frick Collection, New York, and The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1991-1992, no. 27, pl. 32 (Mary Tavener Holmes).
- 1999
- Watteau and His World: French Drawings from 1700 to 1750. The Frick Collection, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1999-2000, no. 61 (Alan Wintermute).
- 2009
- Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 108-109, 281, 2009, no. 45 (color).
Bibliography
- 1875
- Bocher, Emmanuel. Les gravures françaises du XVIIIe siècle; ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes, eaux-fortes, pièces en culeur, au bistre et au lavis, de 1700 à 1800. 6 fasc. Paris, 1875-1882, 4: 88.
- 1880
- Chennevières, P. de. Dessins de Maîtres Anciens, exposés à l'École des Beaux-Arts en 1879. Paris, 1880: 96 (collection of essays first published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts between June 1879 and October 1879; this drawing mentioned in issue of September 1879, 192).
- 1881
- Goncourt, Edmond de. La maison d'un artiste. 2 vols. Paris, 1881, 1: 99-100.
- 1887
- Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. Journal, mémoires de la vie littéraire. 9 vols. Paris, 1887-1896, 1: 800 (8 September 1860)
- 1930
- Grüneisen, Wladimir de. Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie. Paris, 1930: 320.
- 1968
- Wallace Collection Catalogues, Pictures and Drawings. 16th ed. Edited by Francis J. B. Watson. London, 1968: 168, under P450.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 677, no. 1085 (color).
- 1991
- Launay, Élisabeth. Les frères Goncourt collectionneurs de dessins. Paris, 1991: 341, no. 158, repro. 124, fig. 54.
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