Personification of Music

c. 1765/1767

Jean-Baptiste Deshays

Painter, French, 1729 - 1765

Artwork overview

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly commissioned by Madame de Pompadour [née Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, 1721-1764], Paris, as a pendant to Le Dessin. Count Armand de Marcy de Louveciennes. Alfred Chatan, New York;[1] purchased 1901 by William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, as La Musique by François Boucher; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Dana H. Carroll, Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue, Part I, Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 126, no. 57.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978, unnumbered catalogue.

1989

  • The William A. Clark Collection: Treasures of a Copper King, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings; Montana Historical Center, Helena, 1989, unnumbered checklist, repro, as Music.

Bibliography

1925

  • Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 126, no. 57.

1992

  • Laing, Alastair. "Deshays, Jean-Baptiste." In Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. Edited by K.G. Saur. 87+ vols. Munich and Leipzig, 1992+: 26(2000):362.

2008

  • Bancel, André. Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 1729-1765. Paris, 2008: 168, no. P.142, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q46625447

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