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French 18th Century (painter) Portrait of a Young Man, possibly c. 1770 oil on canvas Overall: 65.3 x 54.4 cm (25 11/16 x 21 7/16 in.) framed: 97.2 x 86.4 x 10.2 cm (38 1/4 x 34 x 4 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1961.9.18 |
Provenance
Félix Doistau, Paris, by 1907; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9-11 June 1909, 1st day, no. 37, as Portrait of an Unknown Man by Fragonard); Ducrey. Dr. Théodore Tuffier [1859-1929], Paris, by 1921 until at least 1945.[1] acquired 1951 by (Jacques Seligmann et Cie, Paris and New York); sold March 1952 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] Exhibited at Galerie Charpentier in 1945. According to Seligmann, the painting was still in the Tuffier collection at that time.
[2] Germain Seligman, Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting, New York, 1961, plate 102.