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Pierre Crozat [1665-1740], Paris; by inheritance to his nephews, first to Louis-François Crozat, marquis du Châtel [1691-1750], Paris, and then [on Louis-François' death without a male heir] to Louis-Antoine Crozat, baron de Thiers [1699-1770], Paris; the latter's heirs; purchased 1772, through Denis Diderot [1713-1784] as an intermediary, by Catherine II, empress of Russia [1729-1796], for the Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg; purchased between June 1930 and April 1931 through (Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London; and M. Knoedler & Co., New York) by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; his estate; deeded 8 March 1938 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[1] gift 1940 to NGA.

[1] The dates of the Mellon purchase and deed to Trust are according to Mellon collection files in NGA curatorial records and David Finley's notebook, donated to the National Gallery of Art in 1977, now in the Gallery Archives.

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Bibliography

1755
Catalogue des Tableaux du Cabinet de M. Crozat, Baron de Thiers. Paris, 1755: 12, as Rubens. (also reprint ed., by J.-B. de la Curne de Sainte Palaye, Geneva, 1972).
1772
Tronchin, François. Inventaire des tableaux du Baron de Thiers. 1772. Archives Tronchin, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, Geneva: no. 177, as Rubens.
1774
Catalogue des tableaux qui se trouvent dans les galeries et dans les cabinets du Palais Impérial de Saint-Pétersbourg. Saint Petersburg, 1774: no. 955, as by Rubens.
1829
Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. 9 vols. London, 1829-1842: 9 (1842):301, no. 210, as Rubens.
1837
Livret de la Galerie Impériale de L'Ermitage de Saint-Pétersbourg. Saint Petersburg, 1837: 351, no. 18 (also in 1838 ed.), as Rubens.
1863
Köhne, Baron B. de. Ermitage Impérial. Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux. Saint Petersburg, 1863: 129, no. 581, as Rubens.
1864
Waagen, Gustav-Friedrich. Die Gemäldesammlung in der kaiserlichen Ermitage zu St. Petersburg nebst Bemerkungen über andere dortige Kunstsammlungen. Munich, 1864: 141, no. 581, as Rubens.
1870
Köhne, Baron B. de. Ermitage Impérial. Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux. 3 vols. 2d. ed. Petersburg, 1870: 2:63, no. 581, as Rubens.
1889
Bode, Wilhelm von. "Antoon van Dyck in der Liechtenstein - Galerie." Die Graphischen Künste 12 (1889): 45, as Van Dyck.
1890
Rooses, Max. L'Oeuvre de P.P. Rubens: histoire et description de ses tabelaux et dessins. 5 vols. Antwerp, 1886-1892: 4 (1890):304. as Cornelis de Vos.
1895
Knackfuss, Hermann. Rubens. Bielefeld and Lepzig, 1895: 75, 87, repro., as Rubens.
1895
Somof, A. Ermitage Impérial. Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux. 3 vols. Saint Petersburg, 1901: 2:64, no. 581 (also 1901 ed., 2:72, no. 581).
1900
Cust, Lionel. Anthony Van Dyck: An Historical Study of His Life and Works. London, 1900: 236, no. 58.
1904
Rooses, Max. "Die Vlämischen Meister in der Ermitage: Antoon van Dyck." Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst15 (1904):116.
1904
Stokes, Hugh. Sir Anthony van Dyck. London and New York, 1904: possibly 45.
1906
Bode, Wilhelm von. Rembrandt und Seine Zeitgenossen.... Leipzig, 1906: 268.
1907
Bode, Wilhelm von. Rembrandt und Seine Zeitgenossen . . .. Leipzig, 1907: 273.
1909
Bode, Wilhelm von. Great Masters of Dutch and Femish Painting. Trans. Margaret L. Clarke. London, 1909: 312.
1909
Schaeffer, Emil. Van Dyck, des Mesiters Gemälde in 537 Abbildungen (Klassiker der Kunst 13). Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1909: 141, repro.
1910
Zimmermann, Max. Kunstgeschichte des Barock, Rokoko und der Neuzeit (Allgemeine Kunstgeschichte, vol. 3). Beilefeld and Leipzig, 1910: 150, 153, repro.
1923
Bode, Wilhelm von. Rembrandt und Seine Zeitgenossen.... 2nd rev. ed. Leipzig, 1923: 273.
1931
Glück, Gustav. Van Dyck, des Meisters Gemälde in 571 Abbildungen. (Klassiker der Kunst 13) 2d ed. Stuttgart and New York, 1931: 101, 529, repro.
1941
De Tolnay, Charles. "Flemish Paintings in the National Gallery of Art." Magazine of Art 34 (Apr. 1941): 192, fig. 23, 195, repro.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 205.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 249, repro. 42.
1949
Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 67, repro.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 310, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 46
1965
Jaffé, Michael. "Van Dyck Portraits in the De Young Museum and Elsewhere." Arts Quarterly 28 (1965): 41.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 39, repro.
1968
Stuffmann, Margret. Les Tableaux de la collection de Pierre Crozat. Historique et destinée d'un ensemble célèbre, éstablis en partant d'un inventaire après décès indédit (1740). Gazette des Beaux-Arts 72 (1968): 104, no. 385, repro.
1974
Walker, John. Self-Portrait with Donors: Confessions of an Art Collector. Boston and Toronto, 1974: 116.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 118, repro.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art. New York 1975: 258-259, no. 332, repro.
1980
Larsen, Erik. L'opera completa di Van Dyck. 2 vols. Milan, 1980: 2:96, no. 164, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 259, no. 326, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 144, repro.
1988
Larsen, Erik. The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck. 2 vols. Freren, 1988: 2:24-25. no. 34, repro., as George Jamesone.
1990
Wheelock, Arthur and Susan J. Barnes. Anthony van Dyck,. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990:87
1991
Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 95, color repro.
1996
Gritsai, Natalia. Anthony Van Dyck. Bournemouth and St. Petersburg, 1996: 12, 15, repro.
2004
Barnes, Susan J. Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings. New Haven, 2004: I.123
2005
Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2005: 26-29, color repro.

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