Woman with Sparkling Eyes
after 1758
Painter, French, 1727 - 1775
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 50.8 × 41.91 cm (20 × 16 1/2 in.)
framed: 68.58 × 59.06 × 8.89 cm (27 × 23 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.42
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mrs. Frederick Bell, Paris; (her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27-29 March 1922, 1st day, no. 5, as Portrait de Femme); (M. Knoedler & Co., NewYork);[1] purchased November 1922 by William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York;[2] bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] See M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Stock Book 7, p. 32, row 3, no. 15365, as Van Loo Drouais. The Knoedler numbers 15365 and 96996 are on the painting's stretcher.
[2] See M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Sales Book 12, p. 93, no. 15365, as French School 18 Century, Portrait of a Woman.
Associated Names
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 Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 178, no. 187.
Wikidata ID
Q58691503