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Portrait of a woman as Flora
Details
Jean-Marc Nattier Paris 1685-1766
Portrait of a woman as Flora
signed and dated 'Nattier/*** x.1741' (lower left)
oil on canvas
39 7/8 x 32½ in. 101.5 x 81.7 cm.
Portrait of a woman as Flora
signed and dated 'Nattier/*** x.1741' (lower left)
oil on canvas
39 7/8 x 32½ in. 101.5 x 81.7 cm.
Provenance
Marquis de Laigle.
Mme. Eugène Roussel; Sotheby's, London, 25-28 March 1912, lot 19.
with Wildenstein, Paris.
Baron Maurice de Rothschild (1881-1957), Paris.
Mrs. Corinna Kavanagh, London and Buenos Aires, by 1932.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1963, lot 100.
Mme. Eugène Roussel; Sotheby's, London, 25-28 March 1912, lot 19.
with Wildenstein, Paris.
Baron Maurice de Rothschild (1881-1957), Paris.
Mrs. Corinna Kavanagh, London and Buenos Aires, by 1932.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1963, lot 100.
Literature
P. de Nolhac, J.-M. Nattier, peintre de la cour de Louis XV, Paris, 1905, pp. 62-63, 152, illustrated opposite p. 58.
F. Wedmore, 'Jean-Marc Nattier', in J.J. Foster ed., French Art from Watteau to Prud'hon, London, 1905, I, p. 115.
Arts and Decoration, December 1916, illustrated.
I. Errera, Répetoire des peintures datées, Paris, 1920, I, P. 398.
P. de Nolhac, 'Un problème iconographique: le portrait de la marquise de Vintimille', La Recue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, July 1928, p. 88.
G. Huard, 'Nattier', in L. Dimier ed., Les peintures français du XVIII siècle, Paris and Brussels, 1930, II, pp. 10, 123, no. 126.
G. Wildenstein, 'L'Exposition de l'Art français à Londres, 1932 - Le XVIII siècle', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, January 1932, VII, p. 64, fig. 11.
P. Renard, Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766): un artiste parisien à la cour de Louis XV, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 1999, pp. 69, 70, 103, illustrated p. 77.
X. Salmon, Jean-Marc Nattier, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1999, p. 132, cited under no. 29; p. 304, under year 1744; illustrated p. 134, fig. 2.
F. Wedmore, 'Jean-Marc Nattier', in J.J. Foster ed., French Art from Watteau to Prud'hon, London, 1905, I, p. 115.
Arts and Decoration, December 1916, illustrated.
I. Errera, Répetoire des peintures datées, Paris, 1920, I, P. 398.
P. de Nolhac, 'Un problème iconographique: le portrait de la marquise de Vintimille', La Recue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, July 1928, p. 88.
G. Huard, 'Nattier', in L. Dimier ed., Les peintures français du XVIII siècle, Paris and Brussels, 1930, II, pp. 10, 123, no. 126.
G. Wildenstein, 'L'Exposition de l'Art français à Londres, 1932 - Le XVIII siècle', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, January 1932, VII, p. 64, fig. 11.
P. Renard, Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766): un artiste parisien à la cour de Louis XV, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 1999, pp. 69, 70, 103, illustrated p. 77.
X. Salmon, Jean-Marc Nattier, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1999, p. 132, cited under no. 29; p. 304, under year 1744; illustrated p. 134, fig. 2.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art 1200-1900, January-March 1932, no. 224.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.