National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: The Adoration of the Skulls
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Overview

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Provenance

Probably Rizson.[1] Lewis Einstein [1877-1967], Paris; gift 1956 to NGA

[1] This name was written on painting's old stretcher, which was replaced during the relining in 1967. According to the original accession card for the painting, there was also on the old stretcher a "circular red wax seal with coat of arms and text." A photograph was taken of the handwriting on the stretcher, but there appears to have been none taken of the seal; the photograph and accession card are in NGA curatorial files.

Exhibition History

1967
Loan for display with permanent collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 1967-1971.
1975
The Age of Louis XV: French Painting 1710-1774, The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; The Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1975-1976, no. 23, repro.
1976
Loan for display with permanent collection, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1976.

Bibliography

1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 53, as French School
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 45, repro., as French School
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 136, repro., as French School
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 338, no. 458, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 112, repro.
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. 25, 128-132, color repro.

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