Provenance
Possibly Abbé Thuelin, Paris. possibly James de Rothschild [1792-1868], Châtea de Boulogne, Paris. possibly Lamorélie, Brittany. possibly Baron de Fourment, Château de Cercamp, near Frévent; possibly (his estate sale, Château de Cercamp, 21-28 April 1892, no. 50, as Bon Portrait de Femme by Largillierre). (Wildenstein & Co., Paris, New York, and London), by 1929; sold December 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1946 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1929
- French XVIIIth Century Painting, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1929, no. 14.
- 1939
- The Sources of Modern Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (organized by The Institute of Modern Art, Boston); Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1939, no. 6, repro. (shown only in New York), as by Watteau.
- 1946
- Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 789.
Bibliography
- 1945
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 159, repro., as Watteau, "Sylvia" (Jeanne-Rose Guyonne Benozzi)
- 1946
- Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 62, repro. as Jeanne-Rose-Guyonne Benozzi by Watteau.
- 1948
- Wildenstein and Company. French XVIII Century Paintings. New York, 1948: 4.
- 1956
- Einstein, Lewis. “Looking at French Eighteenth-Century Pictures in Washington.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 6, 47, no. 1048-1049 (May – June 1956): 215-216, 219, fig. 5.
- 1959
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 349, repro., as Watteau, "Sylvia" (Jeanne-Rose Guyonne Benozzi).
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 139, as Watteau, "Sylvia" (Jeanne-Rose Guyonne Benozzi).
- 1966
- Prierard, Gabriel, and Paul Lefranq. "Au cercle archéologique: Watteau a-t-il pu être l'auteur du portrait de la Benozzi-la Silvia de Marivaux--du Musée de Washington?" La Voix du Nord (3 February 1966): 241.
- 1968
- Gandolfo, Giampaolo et al. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Great Museums of the World. New York, 1968: 70, color repro.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 126, repro., as Watteau, "Sylvia" (Jeanne-Rose Guyonne Benozzi).
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 374, repro., as Watteau, "Sylvia" (Jeanne-Rose-Guyonne Benozzi).
- 1977
- Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 296-297, fig. 264, as Portrait of a Lady ['Sylvia'].
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 330, no. 437, as "Sylvia" (Jeanne-Rose-Guyonne Benozzi) by Antoine Watteau.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 435, repro., as Watteau, "Sylvia" (Jeanne-Rose-Guyonne Benozzi).
- 2009
- Conisbee, 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. 49, 229-231, color repro.
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