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Jean-Marc Nattier

Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson, 1745

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 53

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 137.9 x 105.4 cm (54 5/16 x 41 1/2 in.)

framed: 177.8 x 144.78 x 15.24 cm (70 x 57 x 6 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.30

Artists / Makers

Jean-Marc Nattier (artist) French, 1685 - 1766

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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.

[1] In all probability, the French banker comte Louis-Raphaël Cahen d'Anvers (1837-1922); see Colin Bailey's entry for Renoir's Portrait of Alice and Élisabeth Cahen d'Anvers (Museu de Arte de Sao Paolo Assis Chateaubriand), in Colin Bailey, Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age, exh. cat.; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Art Institute of Chicago; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; New Haven, 1997: 180-182, no. 38, and notes on 306-307.

[2] This was reported in the Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, 20 March 1937: 1.

[3] The painting was lent by Cailleux to the 1952 exhibition at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris.

[4] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1171.

Associated Names

Cahen d'Anvers, Comte
Damidot
Drouot, Hôtel
Galerie Cailleux
Galerie Charpentier
Galerie Georges Petit
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Mailly, Duc de
Richard, Théodore
Rothan, Gustave

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.