Provenance
(E. Gimpel & Wildenstein, Paris);[1] sold 1914 to Louisine Waldron Elder, later Mrs. Henry Osborne Havemeyer [1855-1929]; (her estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 10 April 1930, no. 79); Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1] The picture's early history is unknown. According to Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney, et al., Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection, Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993: 322, no. 180, it was acquired by Gimpel & Wildenstein from an "unknown source in 1914" and sold by them to Mrs. Havemeyer later that year. Two different accounts of the portrait's earlier provenance, both of dubious accuracy, are contained in the Chester Dale papers in the NGA's curatorial records. According to one of them, apparently furnished by Wildenstein Inc., the portrait was first "sold by Wildenstein to Mr. Gardner, but later bought back and sold to the Havemeyers in about 1912. Miss Cassatt accompanied Mrs. Havemeyer to the Wildenstein gallery in Paris and persuaded her to buy the picture." A different version, sent to Chester Dale by the Paris dealer Etienne Bignou, informed him that "this is the pedigree of the picture by David which you bought at the Havemeyer sale, 'Sold to the French collector Sigismond Bardac of Paris by Mr. Levy. Mrs. Havemeyer bought the picture from Mr. S. Bardac for about $20,000, in 1902 through Miss Mary Cassatt and Baron Christian de Marinitch." It may be noted that a Portrait de femme. Epoque de la Révolution, of somewhat similar dimensions given as 100 x 80 cm in the catalogue, had appeared in an anonymous sale in 1894 (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 March, no. 27), when it brought the modest price of 300 francs.
Exhibition History
- 2010
- From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 2010-January 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
- 1930
- Antiques 17 (1930): 352, repro.
- 1930
- Art News (19 April 1930): mention.
- 1930
- Art News (22 March 1930): 22, repro.
- 1930
- Beaux-Arts (20 May 1930): 17, repro.
- 1930
- Home and Field (September 1930): 28, repro.
- 1930
- Kunst und Kunstler (28 June 1930): 395, repro.
- 1930
- New York American. (11 April 1930): mention.
- 1930
- New York Evening Journal. (10 May 1930): repro.
- 1930
- New York Evening Post. (21 April 1930): repro.
- 1930
- New York Herald Tribune. (6 April 1930): repro.
- 1930
- New York Sun. (11 April 1930): mention.
- 1930
- Pantheon 5 (1930): 217, repro.
- 1930
- Parnassus (October 1930): 48.
- 1930
- "Rush at Auction of Havemeyer Art." The New York Times. 11 April 1930: 23.
- 1931
- Art News yearly supplement (16 May 1931): color repro. on back cover.
- 1931
- H.O. Havemeyer Collection. Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculpture, and Objects of Art. Portland, Maine, 1931: 502, as by Jacques-Louis David.
- 1941
- Catalogue of French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 5, pl. VIII, as Madame Hamelin by Jacques-Louis David.
- 1941
- Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Now the Great French 19th Century in the National Gallery." Art News 40, no. 17 (December 15-31, 1941):repro. p. 16.
- 1942
- Dale, Chester. "The Golden Century of French Art." The New York Times Magazine 17 May 1942: 20, repro.
- 1942
- French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 16, repro., as Madame Hamelin by Jacques-Louis David.
- 1944
- Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 152, color repro., as Madame Hamelin by Jacques-Louis David.
- 1944
- French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 17, repro.. as Madame Hamelin by Jacques-Louis David.
- 1948
- Kimball, Fiske, and Lionello Venturi. Great Paintings in America. New York, 1948: 162, no. 74, repro., as Mme Hamelin by Jacques-Louis David.
- 1953
- French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 23, repro., as Madame Hamelin as Jacques-Louis David.
- 1965
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 27, repro., as Madame Hamelin by Jacques-Louis David.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 38, as Madame Hamelin by Jacques-Louis David.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 31, repro., as Madame Hamelin by Jacques-Louis David.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 96, repro.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 418, no. 595, color repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 117, repro.
- 1986
- Weitzenhoffer, Frances. The Havemeyers, Impressionism Comes to America. New York, 1986: 219, pl. 153, as by David.
- 1988
- Ribeiro, Aileen. Fashion in the French Revolution. London, 1988: 124-125, repro.
- 1993
- Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney, et al. Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993: 322, no. 180, repro.
- 2000
- Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 213-217, repro.
- 2023
- Smee, Sebastian. "They Kept Their Heads, Then Embraced Hedonism." The Washington Post (7 May 1923): E:3, repro.
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