Provenance
Félix Doistau, Paris, by 1907; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9-11 June 1909, 1st day, no. 37, as Portrait of an Unknown Man by Fragonard); Ducrey. Dr. Théodore Tuffier [1859-1929], Paris, by 1921 until at least 1926. (Jacques Seligmann and Co., Inc., Paris and New York), by 1948; sold March 1952 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1961 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1921
- Exposition d'oeuvres de J.-H. Fragonard, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, no. 20, as Portrait d'homme.
- 1926
- Exposition Rétrospective d'art français, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1926, no. 51
- 1945
- Portraits français, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1945, no. 44, repro.
- 1990
- J. H. Fragonard et Hubert Robert à Roma, Villa Medicis, Académie de France à Rome, 1990-1991, no. 1.
- 2006
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806): Orígenes e influencias. De Rembrandt al siglo XXI, CaixaForum Barcelona, 2006-2007, no. 7, repro.
Bibliography
- 1907
- Dayot, Armand, and Léandre Vaillat. L'oeuvre de J.-B.-S. Chardin et de J.-H. Fragonard. Paris, 1907: 11, no. 76, repro.
- 1929
- Grappe, Georges. La vie et l'oeuvre de J.-H. Fragonard. Paris, 1929: pl. 8.
- 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: 74, no. 25, repro.
- 1956
- Réau, Louis. Fragonard: sa vie et son oeuvre. Brussels, 1956:174, repro.
- 1959
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 372, repro.
- 1961
- Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, 1961: repro. pl. 102.
- 1962
- Carpenter, Richard Bruce. "Review of Georges Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard." The Art Bulletin 44 (1962): 360.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 52, as by Fragonard.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 44, repro.
- 1972
- Mandel, Gabriele. L'Opera completa di Fragonard. Milan, 1972: no. 606, repro., as attributed to Fragonard.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 132, repro.
- 1977
- Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 335-336, fig. 291.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 159, repro.
- 1987
- Cuzin, Jean-Pierre. Fragonard, Life and Work. New York, 1988: 40, pl. 44, 243, 269, no. 49*, repro. (French ed. Paris, 1987).
- 1987
- Lévêque, Jean Jacques, La vie et l'oeuvre de Jean Honoré Fragonard. Paris, 1987: 10-11, repro.
- 1987
- Rosenberg, Pierre. Fragonard. Exh. Cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987-1988. Paris, 1987: 555, fig. 4.
- 1989
- Rosenberg, Pierre. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard. Paris, 1989: 67.
- 2001
- Leclair, Anne. Louis-Jacques Durameau (1733-1796). Paris, 2001.
- 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. 51, 235-239, color repro.
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