Jean-Marc Nattier (artist) French, 1685 - 1766 Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson, 1745 oil on canvas overall: 137.9 x 105.4 cm (54 5/16 x 41 1/2 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1961.9.30

From the Tour: 18th-Century France — Chardin and Portraiture
Object 7 of 11

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Duc de Mailly. Théodore Richard, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 March 1858, no. 176, as Portrait of Bouffon). (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 March 1877, no. 42, as Portrait of Bouffon). Gustave Rothan, Paris, by 1878;[1] (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 29 May 1890, no. 176, as Portrait of a Man). Comte Cahen d'Anvers, Paris, by 1910;[2] (his sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 18 March 1937, no. A); purchased by M. Damidot.[3] (Jean Cailleux, Paris), by 1952;[4] sold 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] The painting was lent by Rothan to the 1878 exhibition in Paris.

[2] The painting was published as being in the Cahen d'Anvers collection in Pierre de Nolhac, Nattier, 1910: 225.

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

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

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• 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

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