Personification of Music, c. 1765/1767

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 106.36 × 141.29 cm (41 7/8 × 55 5/8 in.)

framed: 106.68 × 140.97 × 11.43 cm (42 × 55 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.20

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Deshays (painter) French, 1729 - 1765

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Provenance

Possibly commissioned by Madame de Pompadour [née Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, 1721-1764], Paris, as a pendant to Le Dessin. Count Armand de Marcy de Louveciennes. Alfred Chatan, New York;[1] purchased 1901 by William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, as La Musique by François Boucher; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Dana H. Carroll, Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue, Part I, Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 126, no. 57.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1978: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978, unnumbered catalogue.

1989: The William A. Clark Collection: Treasures of a Copper King, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings; Montana Historical Center, Helena, 1989, unnumbered checklist, repro, as Music.

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 Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 126, no. 57.

1992: Laing, Alastair. "Deshays, Jean-Baptiste." In Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. Edited by K.G. Saur. 87+ vols. Munich and Leipzig, 1992+: 26(2000):362.

2008: Bancel, André. Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 1729-1765. Paris, 2008: 168, no. P.142, repro.