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French 18th Century

Young Woman with a Muff, c. 1750

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 118 x 95.3 cm (46 7/16 x 37 1/2 in.)

framed: 149.9 x 127.6 cm (59 x 50 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1943.7.5

Artists / Makers

French 18th Century (painter)

Image Use

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Provenance

Principe Sciarra, Rome;[1] sold to Barone Michele Angelo Lazzaroni, Rome and Paris, by 1904; sold 1906 to (Ehrich Galleries, New York); sold 1913 to Mrs. Whitelaw Reid [née Elisabeth Mills, 1858-1931], Ophir Hall, Purchase, New York; (her estate sale, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 17 May 1935, no. 1191); Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; gift 1943 to NGA.[2]

[1] Perhaps Maffeo Barberini Colonna di Sciarra, Principe de Carbognano (1850-1906), who for a time resided in Paris, where in 1906 he married Aliette de Bonneval.

[2] Chester Dale collection records provide this provenance, which is based on a letter of 30 September 1935 from Walter Ehrich to Mary Bullard (then Mrs. Dale's secretary) in which he writes: "...we purchased this picture from Baron M. Lazzaroni in Paris in 1906. He had purchased it from the Collection of Prince Sciarra." Baron Lazzaroni lent the painting to an exhibition in Brussels in 1904. The original 1935 letter and a copy of the Dale collection records are in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

American Art Association
Dale, Chester
Ehrich Galleries
Lazzaroni, Michele, Baron
Mills, Elizabeth
Sciarra, Prince

Exhibition History

1904: Exposition de l'Art Français au XVIIIe Siècle, Société française de bienfaisance, Brussels, 1904, no. 17

1965: The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1904: Hymans, H. "L'Exposition de l'art français au XVIIIe siècle à Bruxelles." Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser.3, vol. 31, no. 562 (April 1904): 306, 307, repro.

1942: French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 13, repro.

1942: Jewell, Edward Alden. "The National Gallery's New Riches: An Additional Selection of Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection on Loan." The New York Times (22 February 1942): repro.

1942: Mechlin, Leila. "Old Masters from the Chester Dale Collection." The Sunday Star (Washington) (1942): sec. E, 6, repro.

1942: Rainey, Ada. "National to Exhibit French Masterpieces." The Washington Post (1March 1942): repro.

1943: Washington Times-Herald (18 July 1943): C-10.

1944: French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 13, repro.

1953: French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 18, repro.

1956: Einstein, Lewis. “Looking at French Eighteenth-Century Pictures in Washington.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 6, 47, no. 1048-1049 (May – June 1956): 230 n. 16.

1963: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 316, repro.

1965: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 18, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 44.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 36, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 112, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 326, no. 435, color repro.

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

1999: Renard, Philippe. Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766): un artiste parisien à la cour de Louis XV. Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 1999: 102.

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. 50, 232-234, color repro.