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Provenance

M. de Mauméjan; (his estate sale, Lacoste and Henry, Paris, 29 June-2 July 1825, no. 47).[1] Miss E.M. Linton, Upper Basildon, Berkshire, England;[2] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1 July 1955, no. 154); (David M. Koetser Gallery, New York, London, and Zurich);[2] sold 1957 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Georges Isarlo, Caravage et le caravagisme éuropéen, Aix-en-Provence, 1941: 263.

[2] Miss Linton's name was kindly supplied by Marijke Booth of Christie's Archive Department, London (e-mail to Anne Halpern, 5 December 2007, NGA curatorial files), as was the buyer's name from the auctioneer's book: H. Levat (or Cevat). "Levat" was perhaps buying for, or a pseudonym for, David Koester, who wrote to Colin Eisler (letter of 20 January 1969, NGA curatorial files) that although he had "not kept a record of [the painting's] exact source," he did recall that "he purchased the painting at Christie's, presumably in 1955 or 1956."

Exhibition History

1961
Exhibition of Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1961-1962, no. 101.
2005
The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting 1630-1800, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2005, no. 36, repro. (shown only in Oberlin).

Bibliography

1941
Isarlo, George. Caravage et le caravagisme éuropéen. Aix-en-Provence, 1941: 263.
1956
Pigler, Anton. Barockthemen. Budapest and Berlin, 1956: II:34-36, 174-175 (1974 ed., Budapest, 35-36, 184-185).
1958
Picart, Yves. La vie et l'oeuvre de Simon Vouet. 2 vols. Paris, 1958: 29, pl. 30.
1959
Manning, Robert L. "Some Important Paintings by Simon Vouet in America." In Studies in the History of Art Dedicated to William E. Suida on His Eightieth Birthday. London, 1959: 294-303, fig. 9.
1961
Seymour 1961 (Kress), 141, repro. pl. 132.
1962
Crelly, William R. The Painting of Simon Vouet. New Haven and London, 1962: 89, 186, no. 83, fig. 177.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 315, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 138.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 125, repro.
1972
Leclair, Anne, and Pierre Rosenberg. "De Jean Dubois à Louis-Jacques Durameau: Note sur la Chapelle de la Trinité de Fontainbleau." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français. Année 1972 (1973): 17 note 3.
1974
Pigler, Anton. Barockthemen. Budapest and Berlin, 1956: II:34-36, 174-175 (1974 ed., Budapest, 35-36, 184-185).
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 370, repro.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 313, no. 411.
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 261-263, fig. 245.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 313, no. 408, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 429, repro.
2000
De Lavergnée, Arnauld Brejon. "Une série de Muses de l'atelier de Simon Vouet." In Ex Fumo Lucem. Baroque Studies in Honour of Klára Garas. 2 vols. Budapest, 1999: 167-180, fig. 5.
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. 97, 461-464, color repro.

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