Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry

c. 1770/1774

François-Hubert Drouais

Artist, French, 1727 - 1775

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On View

NGA, West Building, G-011-A

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Timken Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (oval): 71 x 59 cm (27 15/16 x 23 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1960.6.9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frank Sabin, London); sold December 1912 to (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York); purchased 11 March 1927 by William R. Timken [1866-1949], New York; by inheritance to his widow, Lillian Guyer Timken [1881-1959], New York; bequest 1960 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1924

  • An Exhibition of French Art of the XVIII Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1924, no. 5.

1953

  • La Femme dans l'art français, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1953, no. 42.

1982

  • Fragonard and His Friends: Changing Ideals in Eighteenth Century Art, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1982-1983, no. 39.

2002

  • Madame Pompadour: Images of a Mistress, Musée national des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; National Gallery, London, 2002-2003, no. 89, fig. 104 (shown only in Munich and London; not in German cat.).

Bibliography

1906

  • Gabillot, Claude. "Les trois Drouais." Paris, 1906: 165. Reprint of Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 3, 34 (1905); ser. 3, 35 (1906).

1924

  • International Studio 72, no. 321 (1924): cover, color repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 43.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 37, repro.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 110, repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 135, repro.

1999

  • Hugues, Laurent. "Deux portraitistes à l'épreuve de la critique." In "Nattier, peintre de la beauté: expositions à Versailles et Chantilly." Dossier de l'art 62 (November 1999): 49-50, color repro.

2002

  • Baillio, Joseph. "Un portrait de Zamor, page bengalais de Madame du Barry." Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 7, 140 (October 2002): 233, 235, fig. 3.

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. 28, 142-148, color repro.

Inscriptions

On stretcher: small square adhesive label, "#5 / Drouais / Port. Madame Du Barry"; oval label with red printing ink, "CHENUE / EMBALLEUR / no I /Drouais - Mme Dubarry / 5, Rue de la Terasse PARIS"; in pencil on stretcher. "28 1/2 x 23 1/2 / #7112" and "288x"

Wikidata ID

Q20178423

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