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Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain

Three Figures Dressed for a Masquerade, c. 1740s

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G11

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 166.4 x 127 cm (65 1/2 x 50 in.)

framed: 188.6 x 147.3 x 11.4 cm (74 1/4 x 58 x 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.92

Artists / Makers

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (painter) French, 1715 - 1759

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Provenance

Camille Groult [1837-1908], Paris;[1] probably his son and heir, Jean Groult [1868-1951]; (his estate sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 21 March 1952, no. 84, as by Longhi); purchased by (anonymous dealer, France); sold to (David M. Koetser Gallery, New York and London); sold February 1953 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] A note in the 1952 sale catalogue entry indicates the painting was frequently attributed to Lampi when it was in this collection.

[2] The painting was listed as "Jacopo Amigoni? - Interior with elegant company" on the Koetser Gallery invoice to the Kress Foundation, dated 20 February 1953 (copy in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2364).

Associated Names

Galerie Charpentier
Groult, Camille
Groult, Jean
Koetser Gallery, David M.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Unknown Dealer

Exhibition History

1996: The Mask of Venice: Masking, Theatre, and Identity in the Art of Tiepolo and His Time, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, 1996-1997, no. 13, repro.

Bibliography

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: 190, no. 75, repro., as Venetian Master, Third Quarter of the XVIIIth Century, Before the Masked Ball.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 253, repro., as Venetian Master, Third Quarter of the XVIIIth Century, Before the Masked Ball.

1961: Eriksen, Svend. "La Live de Jully's Furniture à la Grecque." The Burlington Magazine 103 (August 1961): 340-347.

1963: Eriksen, Svend. "Om salen paa Åkerö og dens kunstner Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain." Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 32, nos. 3-4 (1963): 94-120.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 135, as Venetian School, Before the Masked Ball.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 122, repro., as Venetian School, Before the Masked Ball.

1973: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 175-176, fig. 338.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 362, repro., as Venetian School, Before the Masked Ball.

1976: Pallucchini, Rodolfo. "Per un'attribuzione al Fontebasso." Paragone 317-319 (1976): 172-179.

1978: Rosenberg, Pierre. "Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (1715-1759)." Revue de l'Art 40-41 (1978): 196-197.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:186-187; 2:pl. 129, as Attributed to Fontebasso.

1979: Watson, Ross. The National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1979: 92, pl. 78.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 420, repro., as Venetian 18th Century

1996: Steward, James Christen, ed. The Mask of Venice: Masking, Theater & Identity in the Art of Tiepolo and His Time. Exh. cat. Berkeley Art Museum, 1996-1997. Berkeley, 1996: no. 13.

2002: Ribeiro, Aileen. Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715 – 1789. Revised ed. (First ed. London, 1984) New Haven, 2002: 259, color repro.; frontis (detail); 260, color repro. (detail); 261, color repro. (detail); 265, color repro. (detail).

2006: Rosenberg, Pierre. Only in America: One Hundred Paintings in American Museums Unmatched in European Collections. Milan, 2006: 134-135, 232, 238-239, color fig.

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. 69, 312-316, color repro.