National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Misse and Luttine
  • Inscription
  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
  • Bibliography

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Inscription

center left on socle: J.B, Oudry / 1729; across bottom under each dog: MISSE / LVTTINE

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Provenance

Commissioned 1729 by Louis XV, King of France [1710-1774].[1] (anonymous dealer, London); purchased c. 1944 by Peter Coats, Kelvedon Hall, Brentwood, Essex, and London;[2] purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, New York, by 1977; gift 1994 to the NGA.

[1] This painting is related to a group of portraits of dogs belonging to Louis XV and destined for the royal chateau at Compiègne. For its early history, see Georges de Lastic, "Desportes et Oudry, Peintres des chasses royales," Connoisseur 196 (December 1977): 294, and Hal Opperman, J-B Oudry, 1686-1755, exh. cat., Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1983: 126-127.

[2] Peter Coats describes how he purchased the painting from a Sloane Street shop that had been bombed during World War II. See his letter to Eugene Thaw, dated 29 August 1984, in NGA curatorial files.

Exhibition History

1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 86-87, color repro.

Bibliography

1977
De Lastic, Georges. "Desportes et Oudry, Peintres des chasses royales." Connoisseur 196 (December 1977): 290-299, fig. C, color repro.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 86-87, color 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. 77, 357-360, color repro.

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