Inscription
lower left: Amedee Van Loo. / 1764
Provenance
Princess Anna Amalie of Prussia [1723-1787] (or possibly Princess Luise Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg [1722-1780]);[1] by descent to Emperor Wilhelm II [1859-1941], great-great-great grandnephew of Anna Amalie (great-great-great grandson of Luise Amalie);[2] (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London); sold 1929 to Robert W. [d. 1935] and Florence Steuber Gaines Harkness [d. 1945] Schuette, New York;[3] gift 1945 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1900
- Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, no. 16.
- 1929
- 18th Century French Art, Wildenstein's, New York, 1929
- 1935
- French Painting and Sculpture of the XVIII Century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1935-1936, no. 40, repro.
- 1940
- Masterpieces of Art. European & American Paintings 1500-1900, New York World's Fair, 1940, no. 209, repro.
- 1962
Meisterwerke aus den Schlössern Friedrichs des Grossen. (Exh. cat. Schlöss Charlottenburg.) Berlin, 1962: 63, nos. 124, 125.
- 1970
Die Bauwerke und Kunstdenkmäler von Berlin: Schlöss Charlottenburg. (Exh. cat. Schlöss Charlottenburg.) Berlin, 1970: 41.
- 2001
- Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2001-2002, no. 243, as The Camera Obscura.
Bibliography
- 1892
- Seidel, Paul. “Die Ausstellung von Kunstwerken aus dem Zeitalter Friedrich des Grossen.Friedrich der Grosse als Sammler von Gemälden und Skulpturen.” Jahrbuch der Königlichen Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 13 (1892): 197.
- 1935
- Wehle, Harry B. “French Painting and Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century.” Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 30 (Nov. 1935): 208
- 1948
- Wildenstein and Company. French XVIII Century Paintings. New York, 1948: 4.
- 1956
- Einstein, Lewis. “Looking at French Eighteenth-Century Pictures in Washington.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 6, 47, no. 1048-1049 (May – June 1956): 234, figs. 19-20.
- 1963
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 317, repro.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 76.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 67, repro.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 198, repro.
- 1975
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 336, 337, nos. 452, 453.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 334, no. 448, color repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 417, repro.
- 2003
- Vogtherr, Christoph Martin. Nicolas Lancret: der Guckkastenmann. Berlin, 2003.
- 2006
- Milam, Jennifer. Fragonard’s Playful Paintings: Visual Games in Rococo Art. Manchester, 2006: 81-84, figs. 22, 24.
- 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. 89, 420-426, color repro.
- 2010
- Calabrese, Omar. L'art du trompe-l'oeil. Translated from the Italian by Jean-Philippe Follet. Paris, 2010: 299, color fig. 227.
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