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Ange Laurent de Lalive de Jully
After Jean Baptiste Greuze · 1759–70
Provenance
Ownership history
- E. Sichel, Paris, 1898 [according to the 1941 Parke-Bernet sale catalogue and a letter from Julius Weitzner to John Maxon dated March 31, 1969, Archives, Art Institute]. Mrs. Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1941; sold Parke-Bernet, New York, April 30–May 3, 1941, vol. 2, no. 977, to A. Cohen, as Greuze [according to verbal communication between Susan Wise and Sotheby’s New York on October 25, 1982, notes in curatorial file]. Sold Christie’s, London, March 8, 1968, no. 112, as by Greuze, to Perman, for 240 gns., perhaps acting as agent for Weitzner [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Ryerson Library, Art Institute]. Julius Weitzner, London, by 1969; sold to the Art Institute, 1969.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, January 24–March 28, 1976, no. 13.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1968–1969 (Chicago, 1969), pp. 6–7, 16, ill.
- “Art Institute of Chicago Gets French Collector’s Portrait,” New York Times (May 25, 1970).
- Ruth Davidson, “Museum Accessions,” Antiques 98 (1970), p. 704, ill.
- “La Chronique des arts,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 75, suppl to no. 1213 (1970), p. 71, no. 328, ill.
- “Recent Accessions,” Apollo 91, 99 (1970), p. 400, ill.
- “Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, January–March 1970,” Art Quarterly 33 (1970), pp. 322, 329, ill.
- Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian (Oxford, 1977), pp. 325–26, under no. K1326.
- Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 76–79, ill.
- Philip Conisbee, in Philip Conisbee, French Paintings of the Fifteenth Through the Eighteenth Century (Washington D.C., 2009), pp. 251, 252 n. 25.
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