Three Figures Dressed for a Masquerade
c. 1740s
Painter, French, 1715 - 1759
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G11
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 166.4 x 127 cm (65 1/2 x 50 in.)
framed: 188.6 x 147.3 x 11.4 cm (74 1/4 x 58 x 4 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1961.9.92
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Camille Groult [1837-1908], Paris;[1] probably his son and heir, Jean Groult [1868-1951]; (his estate sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 21 March 1952, no. 84, as by Longhi); purchased by (anonymous dealer, France); sold to (David M. Koetser Gallery, New York and London); sold February 1953 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] A note in the 1952 sale catalogue entry indicates the painting was frequently attributed to Lampi when it was in this collection.
[2] The painting was listed as "Jacopo Amigoni? - Interior with elegant company" on the Koetser Gallery invoice to the Kress Foundation, dated 20 February 1953 (copy in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2364).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1996
The Mask of Venice: Masking, Theatre, and Identity in the Art of Tiepolo and His Time, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, 1996-1997, no. 13, repro.
Bibliography
1956
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 190, no. 75, repro., as Venetian Master, Third Quarter of the XVIIIth Century, Before the Masked Ball.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 253, repro., as Venetian Master, Third Quarter of the XVIIIth Century, Before the Masked Ball.
1961
Eriksen, Svend. "La Live de Jully's Furniture à la Grecque." The Burlington Magazine 103 (August 1961): 340-347.
1963
Eriksen, Svend. "Om salen paa Åkerö og dens kunstner Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain." Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 32, nos. 3-4 (1963): 94-120.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 135, as Venetian School, Before the Masked Ball.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 122, repro., as Venetian School, Before the Masked Ball.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 175-176, fig. 338.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 362, repro., as Venetian School, Before the Masked Ball.
1976
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. "Per un'attribuzione al Fontebasso." Paragone 317-319 (1976): 172-179.
1978
Rosenberg, Pierre. "Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (1715-1759)." Revue de l'Art 40-41 (1978): 196-197.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:186-187; 2:pl. 129, as Attributed to Fontebasso.
Watson, Ross. The National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1979: 92, pl. 78.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 420, repro., as Venetian 18th Century
1996
Steward, James Christen, ed. The Mask of Venice: Masking, Theater & Identity in the Art of Tiepolo and His Time. Exh. cat. Berkeley Art Museum, 1996-1997. Berkeley, 1996: no. 13.
2002
Ribeiro, Aileen. Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715 – 1789. Revised ed. (First ed. London, 1984) New Haven, 2002: 259, color repro.; frontis (detail); 260, color repro. (detail); 261, color repro. (detail); 265, color repro. (detail).
2006
Rosenberg, Pierre. Only in America: One Hundred Paintings in American Museums Unmatched in European Collections. Milan, 2006: 134-135, 232, 238-239, color fig.
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. 69, 312-316, color repro.
Inscriptions
On stretcher: printed and written paper label, "VARNISH applied on Dec., 1955, a special varnish, readily soluble in petroleum hydrocarbons. It is advisable that treatment of this surface coating be done only with the knowledge of persons familiar with this special material. M. Modestini, Curator, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York 19, N.Y."; three paper labels identifying the painting as part of the Kress collection testifying to its differenct attributions over the years.
Wikidata ID
Q20177935