Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry, c. 1770/1774

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G11-A

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall (oval): 71 x 59 cm (27 15/16 x 23 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Timken Collection

Accession Number

1960.6.9

Artists / Makers

François-Hubert Drouais (artist) French, 1727 - 1775

Image Use

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Provenance

(Frank Sabin, London); sold December 1912 to (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York); purchased 11 March 1927 by William R. Timken [1866-1949], New York; by inheritance to his widow, Lillian Guyer Timken [1881-1959], New York; bequest 1960 to NGA.

Associated Names

Sabin, Frank T.
Timken, Lillian S., Mrs.
Timken, William R.
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

1924: An Exhibition of French Art of the XVIII Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1924, no. 5.

1953: La Femme dans l'art français, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1953, no. 42.

1982: Fragonard and His Friends: Changing Ideals in Eighteenth Century Art, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1982-1983, no. 39.

2002: Madame Pompadour: Images of a Mistress, Musée national des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; National Gallery, London, 2002-2003, no. 89, fig. 104 (shown only in Munich and London; not in German cat.).

Bibliography

1906: Gabillot, Claude. "Les trois Drouais." Paris, 1906: 165. Reprint of Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 3, 34 (1905); ser. 3, 35 (1906).

1924: International Studio 72, no. 321 (1924): cover, color repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 43.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 37, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 110, repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 135, repro.

1999: Hugues, Laurent. "Deux portraitistes à l'épreuve de la critique." In "Nattier, peintre de la beauté: expositions à Versailles et Chantilly." Dossier de l'art 62 (November 1999): 49-50, color repro.

2002: Baillio, Joseph. "Un portrait de Zamor, page bengalais de Madame du Barry." Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 7, 140 (October 2002): 233, 235, fig. 3.

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. 28, 142-148, color repro.