LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

44.61 in. (113.30 cm.) (height) by 36.77 in. (93.40 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grand Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 October 1974-5 January 1975, no. 26. New York, The Frick Collection; Forth Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Nicolas Lancret 1690-1743, 19 November 1991-12 January 1992 and 15 February-12 April 1992, no. 6.

Literature:

Le Mercure de France, June 1730, p. 1184. S. Ballot de Sovot, Eloge de Lancret, peintre du Roi, Paris, 1743 (ed. Guiffrey, Paris, 1874), p. 19-20. Affiches, annonces, avis divers, Paris, 1753, p. 92, described as for sale. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville, Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, Paris, 1752, III, p. 290. É. Bocher, Les Gravures françaises du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1875-77, IV, nos. 13, 31, 40, 64. E. Dacier, 'A propos du portrait de la Camargo, par Lancret, au Musée de Nantes,' Musées de France, III, 1911, p. 44, note 2. S. Reinach, Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of The History of Art Throughout The Ages, New York and London, 1919, pp. 286, 290, fig. 510. G. Wildenstein, Lancret, Paris, 1924, pp. 12, 49, 70-71, no. 9. M. Tavener Holmes, Nicolas Lancret and Genre Themes of the Eighteenth Century, unpublished PhD dissertation, New York University, 1986, pp. 13-15, 17, 18, no. 2. M. Grasselli, 'Elevenn New Drawings by Nicolas Lancret,' Master Drawings, Vol. XXIII-XXIV, No. 3, Autumn 1986, p. 380. A. Wintermute, "One of the Great Sponges: The Art of Nicolas Lancret," Apollo, March 1992, pp. 190-191, fig. 1. C. Riopelle, "Forth Worth, Kimbell Art Museum: Nicholas Lancret," Burlington Magazine, v. 134, no. 1070, May 1992, p. 330. M. Tavener Holmes, Nicolas Lancret: Dance Before the Fountain, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2006, pp. 72, 86, 90, fig. 5. R. Ziskin, Sheltering Art: Collecting and Social Identity in Early Eighteenth Century Paris, University Park (Penn.), 2012, pp. 101-102, pl. 14.

Provenance:

Commissioned around 1720 by Jean-François Leriget de la Faye (1764-1731), Paris, mentioned in inventory upon his death 26 September 1731, no. 87, and by descent to his nephew Jean-François II Leriget de La Faye, Paris; 1753, where acquired by Pierre Vigné de Vigny (1690-1772), Paris; his sale (†), Paris, 1 August 1773, lot 100 (1785 livres), where acquired by Louis-François Mettra (1738-1804). Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, by 1924 and by descent to Baroness Alexandrine de Rothschild; her sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1971, lot 15, where acquired by the following. with Edward Speelman, London. with Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, from at least 1974, where acquired by Chauncey Devereux Stillman (1907-1989), New York.