Woman with Sparkling Eyes

after 1758

François-Hubert Drouais

Painter, French, 1727 - 1775

Artwork overview

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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 Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 178, no. 187.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


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