Portrait of the Maistre Sisters

1. David Maistre, father of the sitters, Genoa, until 1810 [this and the following provenance based on information provided by François Delestre in a letter of November 21, 1989, to Douglas Druick, in curatorial files]; at his death to Mlle Aubry, cousin of the sitters, Paris, 1810–17. M. Legoux (died 1847); Dijon; at his death to Emil Vincens (died 1850), husband of Rosine, another of the Maistre sisters; at Vincens’s death to Pauline Frat (died 1863), the only surviving sister of the Maistre family; at her death to the Legoux family, Paris. Portalès family, Paris. François Delestre, Paris; sold to Art Institute, 1990.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• “La Chronique des arts,” Gazette de Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 117 (1991), suppl. to no. 1466, p. 56, no. 242 (ill.).
• Larry J. Feinberg in Malcolm Warner and Susan Wise, French and British paintings from 1600 to 1800 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago, 1996, pp. 79–80, ill.

François Gérard (1770–1837), later Baron Gérard

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Self-Portrait

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Arabe du Desert

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mars Crowned by Victory and Listening to Moderation

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Man and a Woman Embracing

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Battlefield with Soldier on Horseback (Napoleon?)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a Woman

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a Man

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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