French School, circa 1770
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French School, circa 1770

A lady reclining on a canapé

Details
French School, circa 1770
A lady reclining on a canapé
oil on canvas
21¼ x 27 in. (54 x 68.6 cm.)
Provenance
possibly G. Béguin-Billecoq, Paris.
Edouard Jonas, Paris, (by 1928 - after 1935), as Carle Vanloo.
André Weil, New York, as Carle Vanloo.
with Wildenstein, New York, 1948-1951, as Carle Vanloo.
Forsyth Wickes, Newport, Rhode Island, 1951-1957, as Carle Vanloo.
Literature
C. Sterling, in French Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy, London,
p. 115, no. 229, dating it to circa 1737, noting-in-error that it was exhibited in the Salon of that year, as Carle Vanloo.
Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy, London, 1932/1933, p. 64, no. 248, as painted in circa 1737, as Carle Vanloo.
G. Bazin, L'amour de l'art, XIII, 1932, p. 18, fig. 45, as Carle Vanloo.
Illustrated London News, CLXXXVII, 19 October 1935, p. 662, as from a French private collection, as Carle Vanloo.
L. Rèau, Archives de l'art français, n.s., XIX (1935-36), 1938, p. 68, no. 121, as exhibited at the Salon of 1737, as Carle Vanloo.
J. Robiquet, La Femme dans la peinture française, XVe-XXe siècle, 1938, as Carle Vanloo.
P. Georges, 'A painter looks at: a) the nude, b) Corot', Art News, November 1956, LV, p. 38, no. 7, as Carle Vanloo.
Exhibited
Paris, Musée Carnavalet, La Vie Parisienne au XVIIIe Siècle, 1928, no. 100, as Le Mirroir interrogé, by Carle Vanloo, lent by Edouard Jonas).
Paris, Grand Palais, Les Artistes du Salon de 1737, 1930, no. 73, as Carle van Loo, lent by Edouard Jonas.
London, Royal Academy, French Art 1200-1900, 1932, no. 229, commemorative catalogue, 1933, no. 248, as Carle Vanloo, lent by Edouard Jonas.
Copenhagen, Charlottenborg Palace, L'Art français au XVIIIé siècle, 1935, no. 232, as Carle van Loo, lent by Edouard Jonas.
New Haven, Yale University art Gallery, Pictures Collected by Yale Allumni, 1956, no. 15, as Carle Vanloo, lent by Forsyth Wickes.
New York, Wildenstein, Nude in Painting, 1956, no. 16, as Carle
Vanloo, lent by Forsyth Wickes.

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