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Inscription

lower left: E. Vuillard / 1912

Provenance

The sitter, Théodore Duret [1838-1937], Paris; (his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1 March 1928, no.47); (Jos Hessel, Paris); sold to the Musée National des Beaux-Arts, Algiers, who shortly returned it to Hessel; sold 19 December 1928 to (Alex Reid & Lefèvre, London); sold 11 February 1929 to Étienne Bignou, Paris; sold 22 November 1929 to Chester Dale [1882-1962], New York;[2] bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1] Reid & Lefèvre, Paintings Sold, sheet no. 145, #278/28 gives acquisition source and sale information (Lefèvre archives, Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London, TGA 2002/11, Box 283; copy in NGA curatorial files).

Exhibition History

1930
Cent ans de peinture française, Galeries Georges Petit, 1930, no. 64, repro., as Théodore Duret dans son cabinet de travail.
1930
Painting in Paris from American Collections, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1930, no. 99, repro.
1943
Twentieth Century Portraits, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1943, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
2003
Edouard Vuillard, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003-2004, no. 304, repro., as Théodore Duret in His Study (shown only in Washington).
2010
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 2010-January 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1944
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and their Contemporaries Represented in American Collections. New York, 1944: repro. 191.
1963
MacNeil, Neil. "Chester Dale: Collector." McCalls (November 1963): 122, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 138.
1965
Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965 (rev. ed.): 93, repro.
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:504, color repro.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 126, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 370, repro.
1979
Watson, Ross. The National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1979: 126, pl. 114.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 580, no. 889, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 430, repro.
2003
Salomon, Antoine, and Guy Cogeval. Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. 3 vols. Milan and Paris, 2003: 2:no. IX-199, repro., as Théodore Duret in His Study.

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