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Study of Two Small Girls

Nicolas Lancret · c. 1725

Provenance

Ownership history

Probably G. W. Knobelsdorff, Potsdam [Chicago 1974]; probably by descent to Andreas Kruger (died 1759), Potsdam [Chicago 1974]; by descent to his nephew, Andreas Ludwig Kruger (1743-1822), Potsdam; by descent to his son, Friedrich Ludwig Carl Kruger (1776-1828), Potsdam; by descent to his son. Sold by Adolphe Stein, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1971.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 80-81, cat. 39 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 48, cat. 35(ill.).
Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 5 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 20-21, cat. 5 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.
The Art Institute of Chicago, May-August 1987.
New York, The Frick Collection, "Nicolas Lancret 1690-1743," November 19, 1991-January 12, 1992, p. 130, cat. 31, pl. 36, cat. by Mary Tavener Holmes; traveled to Fort Worth, Tex., The Kimbell Art Museum, February 15-April 12, 1992.
The Art Institute of Chicago, June-October 1996.

Literature

Georges Wildenstein, Lancret (Paris, 1924), no. 143, fig. 41.
Harold Joachim, "A Group of Drawings by Nicolas Lancret," Liber Amicorum (Amsterdam, 1974), pp. 102-109 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1F5.

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