Old Woman with a Muff
second half 18th century
Painter
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 80.5 x 64.5 cm (31 11/16 x 25 3/8 in.)
framed: 106.7 x 89.5 x 10.2 cm (42 x 35 1/4 x 4 in.) -
Accession
1946.7.10
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Léopold Goldschmidt [1830-1904], Paris; probably by inheritance to his son-in-law, comte Ange-André Pastré [1856-1926], Paris. (Jonas, Paris); purchased 1937 by (Wildenstein & Co., Paris, New York, and London);[1] sold December 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1946 to NGA.
[1] The first two names in the provenance were given as former owners of the painting in Georges Wildenstein, Chardin, Zurich, 1963: 182, no. 212. Pastré married Goldschmidt's daughter (one of his six children), Clara Julie Eugénie Goldschmidt (1866-1930). The Wildenstein information sheet given to the Kress Foundation (copy in NGA curatorial files) only lists Goldschmidt. During the preparation of the NGA systematic catalogue of French paintings of the 15th through the 18th century, Joseph Baillio of Wildenstein & Co. kindly provided the source and date of the company's acquisition of the painting.
[2] The memorandum of agreement between Wildenstein & Co. and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for the sale of ten paintings, including Portrait of a Woman by Jean Baptiste Chardin, is dated 28 December 1944 (copy in NGA curatorial files). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1729.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1946
Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 780.
Bibliography
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 161, repro., as by Chardin.
Richardson, Edgar Preston. "Recent Important Acquisitions of America Collections, Two New Additions to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery." Art Quarterly 8 (Autumn 1945): 318-319, repro.
1946
Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 7, color repro., as by Chardin.
1948
Wildenstein and Company. French XVIII Century Paintings. New York, 1948: 4, as by Chardin.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 356, repro., as by Chardin.
1963
Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin. Zurich, 1963: no. 212, 182, fig. 99.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. .National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 26, as by Chardin.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 20, repro., as by Chardin.
1969
Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin: catalogue raisonné. Revised by Daniel Wildenstein; translated by Stuart Gilbert. Oxford, 1969: no. 212, fig. 99, as Portrait of M... with a Muff by Chardin.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 66, repro., as by Chardin.
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 351-352, fig. 325.
1979
Rosenberg, Pierre. Chardin, 1699-1779. Exh. cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Cleveland, 1979: 280.
1983
Rosenberg, Pierre. L'opera completa di Chardin. Milan, 1983: no. R12, repro. [refused].
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 25, repro.
2009
Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 53, 243-245, color repro.
Inscriptions
On stretcher: two labels attached to a red card and encapsulated, one with a blue border, "5640", and "MADE IN FRANCE."
Wikidata ID
Q20178009