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Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
canvas: 57 by 41 1/4 in.; 147 by 104.7 cm.
Description:
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Markings:
signed and dated on the reverse of the original canvas: peint par. N. de Largilliere 1714 (now visible through infrared reflectography).
Condition:
framed: 66 1/2 by 50 3/4 in.; 169 by 128.8 cm. To request a condition report, please contact Alison MacQueen ([email protected])
Literature:
L. Dumont-Wilden, Le Portrait en France, Brussels 1909, p. 204; R. Gimpel, René Gimpel: Journal d’un collectionneur, Paris 1963, p. 45 (18 May 1922 entry), English language ed., New York 1987, p. 25; G. Pascal, Largillierre, Paris 1928, p. 66, cat. no. 105, reproduced plate XIII; H. Marx, "Französische Malerei des 18. Jahrhunderts in der Dresdener Gemäldegalerie. Die ausgestellten Bilder," in Dresdener Kunstblätter, vol. 17, Dresden 1973, pp. 178-179, reproduced p. 180; M. N. Rosenfeld, Largillière: portraitiste du XVIIIe siècle, exhibition catalogue, Montreal 1981, p. 216, cat. no. 43a; A. Walther (ed.), Gemäldegalerie Dresden, Alte Meister, Katalog der ausgestellten Werke, Leipzig, 1992, p. 251, cat. no. 3821, reproduced; H. Börsch-Supan, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721, Cologne 2000, pp. 76, reproduced in reverse p. 77, fig. 66; Französische Gemälde des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts in deutschen Sammlungen, exhibition catalogue, Munich 2005, cat. no. 533, p. 104, reproduced p. 105; R. Pic, "La longue quête d’un Largillière enfin récompensée" in Le Quotidien de l'Art, no. 2104, 11 February 2021, pp. 8-10, reproduced.
Provenance:
Ernest Gimpel, Paris and New York; From whom acquired by Comte Boni de Castellane, Paris and New York; Marquis de Chaponay, Paris, by 23 April 1909 and until at least 1928; With Wildenstein & Co., Paris; There acquired by Jules Strauss, Paris, and his son-in-law Roger Sauerbach, Paris, by May 1928; Jules Strauss, Paris, by 1935 and until 1941; Deutsche Reichsbank, Berlin, acquired from the above by persecution and forced sale shortly before June 1941 through Margot Jansson; Transferred from the above to the Gemäldegalerie, East Berlin, in 1953; Transferred from the above to the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, in October 1959 (inv. 3821); Restituted to the heirs of Jules Strauss in 2021.