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Jean-Marc Nattier: Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson  wikidata:Q20177951 reasonator:Q20177951
Artist
Jean-Marc Nattier  (1685–1766)  wikidata:Q277738
 
Jean-Marc Nattier
Description French painter and portraitist
Date of birth/death 17 March 1685 Edit this at Wikidata 7 November 1766 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
Work period 1700s-1750s
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artist QS:P170,Q277738
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Title
Portrait of Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson (1702–1744)
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1745
date QS:P571,+1745-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions Overall: 137.9 x 105.4 cm (54 5/16 x 41 1/2 in.) Framed: 177.8 x 144.78 x 15.24 cm (70 x 57 x 6 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Accession number
1961.9.30
Object history
Provenance

Duc de Mailly; Théodore Richard [1782-1859], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-20 and 22 March 1858, no. 176, with sitter misidentified as Portrait of Bouffon). (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 March 1877, no. 42, with sitter misidentified as Portrait of Bouffon); Gustave Rothan; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 29-31 May 1890, no. 176, as Portrait of a Man); L. Cahen d'Anvers,[1] Paris, by 1900; A. de Rothschild, by 1906; (Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London), by 4 May 1936; comte X...; (his sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 18 March 1937, lot A); purchased by Damidot.[2] (Galerie Cailleux, Paris), by 1952;[3] purchased 1954 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] In all probability, the French banker comte Louis-Raphaël Cahen d'Anvers (1837-1922); see Colin Bailey's entry for Renoir's Portrait of Alice and Élisabeth Cahen d'Anvers (Museu de Arte de Sao Paolo Assis Chateaubriand), in Colin Bailey, Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age, exh. cat.; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Art Institute of Chicago; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; New Haven, 1997: 180-182, no. 38, and notes on 306-307.

[2] This was reported in the Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, 20 March 1937: 1.

[3] The painting was lent by Cailleux to the 1952 exhibition at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris.

Exhibition history
Exhibition history
  • 1746 Salon of 1746, Paris, no. 67, as M. Bonier de la Mosson dans son cabinet.
  • 1878 Tableaux anciens et modernes, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 1878, no. 195, as Portrait de Buffon.
  • 1883 L'art du XVIIIe Siècle, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1883-1884, no. 111, as Portrait d'homme.
  • 1900 Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, no. 208.
  • 1932 Exhibition of French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 2239 (no. 205 of first catalogue).
  • 1952 Cent portraits d'hommes du XIVe siècle à nos jours, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1952, no. 70, repro.
  • 1999 Jean-Marc Nattier: 1685-1766, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, 1999-2000, no. 42, repro.
  • 2011 Paris: Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth Century, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2011-2012, no. 93, repro.
Credit line Samuel H. Kress Collection
Inscriptions center left at base of column: Nattier / 1745
References Information on the paintings provenance and exhibition history complied by the National Gallery of Art
Source/Photographer : online database: entry 1961.9.30
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