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Pierre-Antoine Baudouin

The Honest Model, 1769

Not on View

Medium

gouache and graphite on vellum, mounted on paperboard

Dimensions

Overall: 40.6 x 35.7 cm (16 x 14 1/16 in.)

framed: 57 x 53.3 x 6 cm (22 7/16 x 21 x 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ian Woodner

Accession Number

1983.100.1

Artists / Makers

Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (artist) French, 1723 - 1769

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Inscription

signed lower center in pen and brown ink: AP [in ligature] Baudoüin

Provenance

Mlle. Testard (sale, Paris, 22 January 1776, no. 30); M. Prault (sale, Paris, 27 November 1780, no. 41); Groult collection, Paris, by 1893; George Blumenthal [1859-1941], New York; Baroness Wrangell; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 26 November 1970, No. 93); acquired by (William Schab Gallery, New York); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, by 1973; gift to NGA, 1983.

Associated Names

Blumenthal, George, Mrs.
Groult, Camille
Prault, M.
Schab Gallery, Inc., William H.
Sotheby's
Testard, Mlle.
Woodner, Ian
Wrangell, Baroness

Exhibition History

1769: Salon of 1769. Paris, 1769, no. 68.

1973: Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century. William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour. 1973-1974, no. 106.

1976: Old Master Drawings from American Collections. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1976, no. 157 (Ebria Feinblatt).

1983: The Rococo Age, French Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1983, no. 79 (Eric Zafran).

1984: Diderot et l'Art de Boucher à David: Les Salons: 1759-1781. Hôtel de la Monnaie, Paris, 1984-1985, no. 34.

1986: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 92 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

2003: The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Altes Museum, Berlin, 2003-2004, no. 60, repro. (Washington only).

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 178-179, 286, no. 78 (color).

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1769: [Cochin, C.N.]. Réponse de M. Jérôme rapeur de tabac a M. Raphaël, peintre de l'Académie de S. Luc..., Paris, 1769: 28-29.

1769: [de Jossan, Daudet]. Lettres sur les peintures, gravures et sculptures qui ont été exposées cette année au Louvre: par M. Raphaël, Peintre, de l'Académie de s. Luc..., Paris, 1769: 35-36.

1769: "Exposition des Peintures...," L'Avant-Coureur, 39 (25 September 1769): 610.

1769: Fréron, E.-C. "Exposition des Peintures, Sculptures & Gravûres de Messieurs de l'Académie Royale," L'Année littéraire, 5 (4 September 1769): 301.

1769: Lettre sur l'exposition des ouvrages de Peinture & de Sculpture au Sallon du Louvre 1769, Rome, 1769: 29.

1769: "Sallon du Louvre," Affiches, annonces, et avis divers, 38 (20 September 1769): 151.

1769: Sentimens sur les tableaux exposés au Salon, Paris, 1769: 14.

1780: Petit de Bachaumont, L. "Salon de 1769," in Mémoires secrets, London, 1780: 13, 57-58.

1796: Chevalier des Boulmiers. "Exposition des Peintures, Sculptures & Gravures de MM. de l'Académie royale, dans le salon du Louvre 1769," Mercure de France, (October 1769), I: 188-189.

1875: Bocher, Emmanuel.Les gravures françaises du XVIIIe siècle; ou, Catalogue raisonné des estampes, eaux-fortes, pièces en couleur, au bistre et au lavis, de 1700 à 1800. 6 vols. Paris, 1875-1882: 36-37, 53, 55.

1893: Bourcard, Gustave. Dessins, Gouaches, estampes et tableaux du dix-huitième siècle. Paris, 1893, 27.

1923: Clayton, Edward. French Engravings of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Joseph Widener, Lynnewood Hall. 4 vols. London, 1923, I:35-37.

1957: Diderot, Denis. Salons. Texte établi et présenté par Jean Seznec et Jean Adhéma . 4 vols. Oxford, 1957-1967, 4: 95.

1957: Grimm, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von, in Denis Diderot, Salons. Oxford, 1957-1967, 4: 95.

1957: Seznec, Jean, and Jean Adhémar, eds. Diderot, Salons. 4 vols. Oxford, 1957-1967: 4:31, fig. 17 (repro. of the print).

1971: "Louis XV sur une chaise de Louis XVI," Connaissance des arts, 235 (September 1971): 48.

1972: Master Prints and Drawings 15th to 20th Centuries, William H. Schab Gallery, New York, n.d. (Catalogue 52 [1972]): 74-75, no. 67 (reproduced in color).

1980: Bukdahl, E.-M. Diderot Critique d'Art-I-Théorie et pratique dans les Salons de Diderot, Copenhagen, 1980: 219, 285, 385.

1982: Bukdahl, E.-M. Diderot Critique d'Art-II-Diderot, les Salonniers et les esthéticiens de son temps, Copenhagen, 1982: 276-77.

1982: Georgel, P. "L'Académie 'particulière,'" in exh. cat. La peinture dans la peinture Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon: 197, repro. 196, fig, 346 (print).

1990: Sheriff, Mary D. Fragonard. Art and Eroticism. Chicago and London, 1990: 185-191, fig. 40.

1999: Fort, Bernadette, ed. Les Salons des "Méemoire secrets" 1767-1787. Paris, 1999: 59-61, fig. 9.

2004: Oeuvres sur papier, Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris, 2004, n.p. (under Baudouin, Deux jeunes amoureux, as a related work).

2005: Fahy, Everett, ed. The Wrightsman Pictures. New Haven, 2005: 196, 198, under cat. 56, fig. 1.