Inscription
center left at base of column: Nattier / 1745
Provenance
Duc de Mailly; Théodore Richard [1782-1859], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-20 and 22 March 1858, no. 176, with sitter misidentified as Portrait of Bouffon). (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 March 1877, no. 42, with sitter misidentified as Portrait of Bouffon); Gustave Rothan; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 29-31 May 1890, no. 176, as Portrait of a Man); L. Cahen d'Anvers,[1] Paris, by 1900; A. de Rothschild, by 1906; (Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London), by 4 May 1936; comte X...; (his sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 18 March 1937, lot A); purchased by Damidot.[2] (Galerie Cailleux, Paris), by 1952;[3] purchased 9 February 1954 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1961 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1746
- Salon of 1746, Paris, no. 67, as M. Bonier de la Mosson dans son cabinet.
- 1878
- Tableaux anciens et modernes, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 1878, no. 195, as Portrait de Buffon.
- 1883
- L'art du XVIIIe Siècle, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1883-1884, no. 111, as Portrait d'homme.
- 1900
- Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, no. 208.
- 1932
- Exhibition of French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 239 (no. 205 of first catalogue).
- 1952
- Cent portraits d'hommes du XIVe siècle à nos jours, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1952, no. 70, repro.
- 1999
- Jean-Marc Nattier: 1685-1766, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, 1999-2000, no. 42, repro.
- 2011
- Paris: Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth Century, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2011-2012, no. 93, repro.
Bibliography
- 1747
- La Font de Saint-Yenne. Réflexions sur quelques causes de l'état présent de la peinture en France. The Hague, 1747: 107 (reprint Geneva, 1970).
- 1894
- Mantz, Paul. "J.-M. Nattier." Gazette des Beaux-ArtsSer.3, Vol. 12 (August 1894): 107.
- 1900
- Portalis, Baron Roger. "Les Arts á l'Exposition Universelle de 1900: exposition rétrospective de la Ville de Paris." Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 3, 24 (1900): 211-212.
- 1905
- Nolhac, Pierre de. Nattier, peintre de la cour de Louis XV. Paris, 1905: 105-106, 137, 156, repro. facing 106; 2nd edition (1910): 168-170, 249, no. 225; 3rd edition (1925): 188-191, 275, no. 248.
- 1909
- Dumont-Wilden, Louis. "Le portrait en France." Brussels, 1909: 225.
- 1910
- Nolhac, Pierre de. "Deux portraits inédits par Nattier." Les Arts 97 (Jan. 1910): 2.
- 1930
- Huard, Georges. "Nattier, 1685 à 1766." In Louis Dimier. Les peintres français du XVIIIe siècle: Histoire des vies et catalogue des oeuvres. 2 vols. Paris, 1928-1930: 2(1930):111, 123, no. 57.
- 1937
- Beaux-Arts. "Les tableaux de la collection de M. le Comte de X..." Beaux-Arts 218 (March 5, 1937): 4, repro.
- 1937
- Pantheon. "Paris, Auktionen." Pantheon 9 no. 5 (May 1937): 164, 162, repro.
- 1937
- Revue de l'art 1937b. "Le don de M. Mellon à la nation américaine." Revue de l'Art 71, no. 376 (April 1937): 78, 77, repro.
- 1956
- Einstein, Lewis. "Looking at French Eighteenth Century Pictures in Washington." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 6th ser., 47, no. 1048-1049 (May-June 1956): 229-230 n. 15, fig. 12.
- 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: 134, no. 51, repro.
- 1957
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): 34, 38, pl. 85.
- 1959
- Bourdier, V.F. "L'extravagant cabinet de Bonnier." Connaissance des Arts 90 (August 1959): 53 n. 52, repro.
- 1959
- Cooke, Hereward Lester. French Paintings of the 16th-18th Centuries in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Four in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 32, 33, color repro.
- 1959
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 358, repro.
- 1961
- Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 185, 213, fig. 175.
- 1963
- Cailleux, Paul. Cailleux: 1912-1962. Paris, 1963: n.p., repro.
- 1963
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 316, 340, repro.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 96.
- 1966
- Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:310, color repro.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 84, repro.
- 1972
- Chaussinand-Nogaret, Guy. Gens de finance au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1972: 140, repro.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 252, repro.
- 1975
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 328, no. 435, color repro.
- 1977
- Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 309-310, fig. 275.
- 1980
- Fredericksen, Burton B. Masterpieces of Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Malibu, 1980: no. 45.
- 1984
- Le Faubourg Saint-Germain: la rue Saint-Dominique, hôtels et amateurs. Exh. cat. Musée Rodin, Paris, 1984: 17, 152, color repro. pl. 1.
- 1984
- Roland Michel, Marianne. Lajoüe et l'art rocaille. Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1984: 42, 360 n. 40.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 326, no. 431, color repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 291, repro.
- 1996
- McClellan, Andrew. "Watteau's Dealer: Gersaint and the Marketing of Art in Eighteenth-Century Paris." The Art Bulletin 78, no. 3 (September 1996): 447, 449, repro. fig. 11.
- 1999
- Renard, Philippe. Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766): un artiste parisien à la cour de Louis XV. Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 1999: 84-85, 177, 215, 236 n. 100.
- 1999
- Salmon, Xavier. "Le Musée idéal." Nattier, peintre de la beauté: expositions à Versailles et Chantilly. Dossier de l'art 62 (November 1999): 62, 64, color repro. fig. 2.
- 2000
- Goodman, Elise. The Portraits of Madame de Pompadour: Celebrating the Femme Savante. Berkeley and London, 2000: xvi, 101, 104-105, 163 n. 39, 104, fig. 57.
- 2002
- Jones, Colin. Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress. Exh. cat. National Gallery, London, 2002-2003. London, 2002: 45, fig. 18 (not in the exhibition).
- 2008
- Baillio, Joseph. A Fantastical Recreation of Bonnier de la Mosson's Cabinets of Natural History, Collection of Drugs and Pharmaceutical Compounds and Chemistry Laboratory by Jacques de Lajoüe (1686-1761) -- A Newly Rediscovered Masterpiece of the Age of Enlightenment. New York, 2008: 6, color repro., 22, color repro., 23-24, 23, color repro., 25.
- 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. 73, 336-342, color repro.
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