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Madame François Buron

Jacques Louis David · 1769

Provenance

Ownership history

Probably in the sitter’s possession [for the descent of this portrait and the companion portrait of François Buron, see Schnapper in Paris 1989-90, p. 44, under no. 2]; probably by descent to her daughter, Marie Françoise Buron, who married François Charles Seigneur; probably by descent to their daughter, Alexandrine Marie Louise, who married Charles François Baudry; probably by descent to their son, A. Baudry, and his wife (both d. 1903), by 1879; probably in 1903 to Mme Baudry’s brother, M. Dussault (or Dussaud), and his wife [according to London 1948 and Péreire 1907]; presumably by descent to M. Regnault, a family member, Paris, until 1925; offered for sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1905, no. 2 (ill.), bought in [subsequently lent by Regnault to Paris 1913]; sold by Regnault to Wildenstein, Paris in 1925; transferred from Wildenstein, Paris, on 22 March 1939; inventoried in Wildenstein, New York, stock on 27 February 1940 [acc.to Ay-Whang Hsia of Wildenstein, conversation with Martha Wolff 4 November 2003, note in curatorial file]; sold by Wildenstein to the Art Institute, 1963.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Petit Palais), David et ses éleves, 1913, cat. no. 2.
New York, Wildenstein and Co., Fashion in Headdress, 1450-1943, 1943, no. 53.
Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, The Spirit of Modern France: An Essay on Painting in Society, 1745-1946, 1946-47, cat. no. 10, traveled to Toronto.
London, Tate Gallery, David, 1748-1825, 1948, cat. no. 1, traveled to Manchester.
New York, Wildenstein and Co., French Painting of the Eighteenth Century, 1948, cat. no. 8.
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, David: Exposition en l’honneur du deuxième centenaire de sa naissance, 1948, cat. no. M. O. 1.
New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, Masterpieces of French Painting through Five Centuries, 1400-1900, 1953-54, cat. no. 50.
Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, The Age of Louis XV: French Painting, 1710-1774, 1975-76, cat. no. 24, traveled to Chicago and Ottawa.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, cat. no. 16.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, and Versailles, Musée National du Château, Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825, October 26, 1989-February 12, 1990, cat. no. 3.

Literature

E[dme] F[rançois] M[arie] Miel, “David,” Le Plutarque français, vies des hommes et femmes illustres de la France, avec leurs portraits en pied, vol. 7, Paris, 1840, p. 3.
J. L. Jules David, Le Peintre Louis David, 1748-1825: Souvenirs et documents inédits, Paris, 1880, pp. 7, 631.
Paul Marmottan, L’Ecole française de peinture (1789-1830), Paris, 1886, p. 368.
Charles Saunier, Louis David, Paris, [1903], p. 12.
“La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité,” Gazette des Beaux Arts 3rd ser., 33 (1905), suppl. no. 24, p. 200.
Prosper Dorbec, “David portraitiste,” Gazette des Beaux Arts 3rd ser., 37 (1907), pp. 308-09 (ill.).
N. Péreire, in “Séance du 3 Mai 1907,” Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de l’art français (1907), pp. 49-50.
Camille Gronkowski, “David et ses éleves at the Petit Palais – I,” Burlington Magazine 23 (1913), p. 78.
Leon Rosenthal, “L’Exposition de David et de ses élèves au Petit Palais,” La Revue de l’art ancien et moderne 33 (1913), p. 338.
Charles Saunier, “David et son ècole au Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris,” Gazette des Beaux Arts 4th ser., 9 (1913), p. 273.
Robert de la Sizeranne, “À l’Exposition David: L’Instinct et l’intelligence chez l’artiste,” Revue des deux mondes 15 (1913), p. 90.
Gabriel Henriot, Collection David-Weill, Paris, 1926, vol. I, Peintures, p. 59.

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