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Provenance

M. de Mauméjan; (his estate sale, Lacoste and Henry, Paris, 29 June-2 July 1825, no. 47).[1] Miss E.M. Linton, Upper Basildon, Berkshire, England;[2] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1 July 1955, no. 154); (David M. Koetser Gallery, New York, London, and Zurich);[2] sold 1957 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Georges Isarlo, Caravage et le caravagisme éuropéen, Aix-en-Provence, 1941: 263.

[2] Miss Linton's name was kindly supplied by Marijke Booth of Christie's Archive Department, London (e-mail to Anne Halpern, 5 December 2007, NGA curatorial files), as was the buyer's name from the auctioneer's book: H. Levat (or Cevat). "Levat" was perhaps buying for, or a pseudonym for, David Koester, who wrote to Colin Eisler (letter of 20 January 1969, NGA curatorial files) that although he had "not kept a record of [the painting's] exact source," he did recall that "he purchased the painting at Christie's, presumably in 1955 or 1956."

[3] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2246.

Exhibition History
1961
Exhibition of Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1961-1962, no. 101.
2005
The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting 1630-1800, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2005, no. 36, repro. (shown only in Oberlin).
Bibliography
1941
Isarlo, George. Caravage et le caravagisme éuropéen. Aix-en-Provence, 1941: 263.
1956
Pigler, Andor. Barockthemen: eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. 2 vols. Budapest, 1956: 2:34-36, 174-175.
1958
Picard, Yves. La vie et l'oeuvre de Simon Vouet. 2 vols. Paris, 1958: 29, pl. 30.
1959
Manning, Robert L. "Some Important Paintings by Simon Vouet in America." In Studies in the History of Art Dedicated to William E. Suida on His Eightieth Birthday. London, 1959: 294-303, fig. 9.
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: 141, repro. pl. 132.
1962
Crelly, William R. The Painting of Simon Vouet. New Haven and London, 1962: 89, 186, no. 83, fig. 177.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 315, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 138.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 125, repro.
1972
Leclair, Anne, and Pierre Rosenberg. "De Jean Dubois à Louis-Jacques Durameau: Note sur la Chapelle de la Trinité de Fontainbleau." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français. Année 1972 (1973): 17 note 3.
1974
Pigler, Anton. Barockthemen: eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. 3 vols. Rev. ed. Budapest, 1974: 2:35-36, 184-185.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 370, repro.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 313, no. 411.
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 261-263, fig. 245.
1984
Walker, John. "National Gallery of Art, Washington." New York, 1984: 313, no. 408, color repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 313, no. 408, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 429, repro.
1999
De Lavergnée, Arnauld Brejon. "Une série de Muses de l'atelier de Simon Vouet." In Ex Fumo Lucem. Baroque Studies in Honour of Klára Garas. 2 vols. Budapest, 1999: 167-180, fig. 5.
2005
Baillio, Joseph, et al. The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier. A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein's Presence in New York. Exh. cat. Wildenstein & Co., New York, 2005: 110.
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. 97, 461-464, color repro.
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