Provenance
Possibly Bourbon-Condé family. Sir Richard Wallace, 1st bt. [1818-1890], London and Paris; by inheritance to his wife, Julie-Amélie-Charlotte Castelnau, Lady Wallace [1819-1897], London and Paris; by inheritance to her adviser and secretary, Sir John Murray Scott, 1st bt. [1847-1912], London and Paris; by inheritance to his friend, Josephine Victoria Sackville-West, Lady Sackville [1864-1936], Sevenoaks, Kent [sculpture remained in Paris in Scott's residence];[1] sold 1913 to (Jacques Seligmann and Co., Inc., Paris and New York); sold 1951 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1960 to NGA.
Bibliography
- 1950
- Cecil, Robert. “The remainder of the Hertford and Wallace Collections.” The Burlington Magazine 92 (June 1950): 168-172, fig. 19, 23.
- 1952
- Seymour, Charles, Jr. "A Group of Royal Portrait-Busts from the Reign of Louis XIV." The Art Bulletin 34, no. 4 (December 1952): fig. 1, fig. 3.
- 1959
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 444, repro.
- 1961
- Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, 1961: 101, pl. 16, 17.
- 1961
- Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 175, pl. 179.
- 1965
- Cecil, R.A. "French Eighteenth Century Sculpture formerly in the Hertford-Wallace Collection." Apollo 81 (June 1965): 450, repro.
- 1965
- Coolidge, John. "Two Portrait Busts attributed to Guillaume Coustou the Elder." In Essays in Honor of Walter Friedlaender. Locust Valley, NY, 1965: 8.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 150..
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 132, repro.
- 1976
- Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 95.
- 1990
- Hazlehurst, F. Hamilton. "Five Portrait Busts: A Question of Identification and Scholarship." Studies in the History of Art 24 (1990): 92-95, repro.
- 1994
- Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 49, repro.
- 1999
- Norman Herz, Katherine A. Holbrow and Shelley G. Sturman. "Marble Sculture in the National Gallery of Art: a Provenance Study." In Max Schvoerer, ed. Archéomatériaux: marbres et autres roches: ASMOSIA IV, Bordeaux, France 9-13 october 1995: actes de la IVème Conférence international de l’Association pour l’étude des marbres et autres roches utilizes dans le passé. Talence, 1999: 101-110.
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