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French 18th Century

Old Woman with a Muff, second half 18th century

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 80.5 x 64.5 cm (31 11/16 x 25 3/8 in.)

framed: 106.7 x 89.5 x 10.2 cm (42 x 35 1/4 x 4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1946.7.10

Artists / Makers

French 18th Century (painter)

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Provenance

Léopold Goldschmidt [1830-1904], Paris; probably by inheritance to his son-in-law, comte Ange-André Pastré [1856-1926], Paris. (Jonas, Paris); purchased 1937 by (Wildenstein & Co., Paris, New York, and London);[1] sold December 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1946 to NGA.

[1] The first two names in the provenance were given as former owners of the painting in Georges Wildenstein, Chardin, Zurich, 1963: 182, no. 212. Pastré married Goldschmidt's daughter (one of his six children), Clara Julie Eugénie Goldschmidt (1866-1930). The Wildenstein information sheet given to the Kress Foundation (copy in NGA curatorial files) only lists Goldschmidt. During the preparation of the NGA systematic catalogue of French paintings of the 15th through the 18th century, Joseph Baillio of Wildenstein & Co. kindly provided the source and date of the company's acquisition of the painting.

[2] The memorandum of agreement between Wildenstein & Co. and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for the sale of ten paintings, including Portrait of a Woman by Jean Baptiste Chardin, is dated 28 December 1944 (copy in NGA curatorial files). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1729.

Associated Names

Goldschmidt, Léopold
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Pastré, André, Comte
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

1946: Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 780.

Bibliography

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 161, repro., as by Chardin.

1945: Richardson, Edgar Preston. "Recent Important Acquisitions of America Collections, Two New Additions to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery." Art Quarterly 8 (Autumn 1945): 318-319, repro.

1946: Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 7, color repro., as by Chardin.

1948: Wildenstein and Company. French XVIII Century Paintings. New York, 1948: 4, as by Chardin.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 356, repro., as by Chardin.

1963: Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin. Zurich, 1963: no. 212, 182, fig. 99.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. .National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 26, as by Chardin.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 20, repro., as by Chardin.

1969: Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin: catalogue raisonné. Revised by Daniel Wildenstein; translated by Stuart Gilbert. Oxford, 1969: no. 212, fig. 99, as Portrait of M... with a Muff by Chardin.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 66, repro., as by Chardin.

1977: Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 351-352, fig. 325.

1979: Rosenberg, Pierre. Chardin, 1699-1779. Exh. cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Cleveland, 1979: 280.

1983: Rosenberg, Pierre. L'opera completa di Chardin. Milan, 1983: no. R12, repro. [refused].

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 25, repro.

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. 53, 243-245, color repro.