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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 30, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Property from the Estate of Eugene V. Thaw | 234 | $****** - ****** | The Hurdy-Gurdy Player |
paintings
43.3 x 30.8 cm (17.05 x 12.13 in)
oil on canvas
(Probably) M...; Ho^tel de Bullion, Paris, 9-10 January 1818, lot 16 (without indication of either size or support).
(Probably) Simonet collection, Paris; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7-8 May 1863, lot 34 (without indication of either size or support).
Gustave Rothan (1822-1890), Paris, by 1883; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 30 May 1890, lot 148 (12,000 FF to Reuter or Rutter).
Albert Lehmann (1840-1922), Paris, by 1897; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 8 June 1925, lot 201, citing Portalis (loc. cit.) who erroneously listed the present painting as two separate works.
Mrs. Edward Esmond, Paris, by 1934.
Private collection, France.
with Galerie Brame and Lorenceau, Paris, where acquired in 2006 by the present owner.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, L'Art au XVIIIe siècle, December 1883-January 1884, no. 48 (without indication of either size or support).
Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Portraits de Femmes et d'Enfants, 30 April 1897, no. 61.
Paris, Pavillion de la Ville de Paris, Exposition Universelle de 1900: Exposition Rétrospective de la Ville de Paris, 1900, no. 123.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Chardin-Fragonard, June-July 1907, no. 120.
Berlin, Royal Academy of Art, L'exposition d'oeuvres de l'art français du XVIIIème siècle, 1910, no. 52.
Paris, The Louvre, Exposition d'oeuvres de J.-H. Fragonard, 7 June-10 July 1921, no. 68, identifying the present work as the ex-Simonet painting.
Paris, Seligmann, Réhabilitation du sujet, 17 November-9 December 1934, no. 25, identifying the present work as the ex-Simonet painting.
Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Jean-Siméon Chardin: 1699-1779: Werk Herkunft Wirkung, 5 June-22 August 1999, no. 119.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart André, Fragonard: Les plaisirs d'un siècle, September 2007, with erroneous citations and identifying the present work as lot 16 in the Ho^tel de Bullion sale in 1818.
Baron R. Portalis, Honoré Fragonard: sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, 1889., pp. 277, 282, erroneously listed as two separate works.
C. Mauclair, 'Fragonard', in L'Art et les Artistes, III, April-September 1906, p. 198, illustrated.
P. de Nolhac, J.H. Fragonard, Paris, 1906, p. 148-9, illustrated opposite p. 160, erroneously listed as two separate works and with the provenance conflated with ex-Vassal version, which is erroneously listed as on canvas.
P. de Nolhac, 'Fragonard et Chardin,' in Les Arts, LXVII, July 1907, p. 43.
L. de Fourcaud, 'Honoré Fragonard,' in Revue de l'Art, XXI, 10 January 1907, p. 294.
A. Dayot and L. Vaillat, L'Oeuvre de J.-B.-S. Chardin et de J.-H. Fragonard, Paris, 1908, p. XV, no. 115 bis., illustrated, as a separate work to the ex-Simonet painting.
G. Wildenstein, 'L'Exposition Fragonard au Pavillion de Marsan,' in La Renaissance de l"art français et des industries de luxe, January 1921, p. 362, illustrated.
H. Algoud, Fragonard, Monte-Carlo, 1941, pl. 27.
M. Pitsch, Essai de catalogue sur l'iconographie de la vie populaire au XVIIIe siècle, dissertation, Paris, 1952, p. 87, no. 292, quoting Portalis (loc. cit.) and Dayot and Vaillat (loc. cit.) who list this painting as two separate works.
L. Guerry-Brion, Fragonard, Milan, 1954, no. 56, illustrated.
L. Réau, Fragonard: sa, vie et son oeuvre, Brussels, 1956, p. 181, identifying the present work as the ex-Simonet painting.
G. Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard: Complete Edition by Georges Wildenstein, London, 1960, p. 314, no. 505, fig. 211, with erroneous citations, including the lot number in the Lehmann sale, which is listed as 'Lot 20 (bt. by Guiraud)', and identifying the present work as the ex-Simonet painting.
J. Wilhelm, unpublished monograph, 1960, pp. 137-38.
G. Mandel, L'opera completa di Fragonard, Milan, 1972, no. 45, illustrated.
J.-P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Vie et oeuvre, Fribourg, 1987, p. 331, no. 365, erroneously listing the lot number in the Lehmann sale as 'Lot 20', and identifying the present work as the ex-Simonet painting.
J.-P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Life and Work, New York, 1988, p. 331, no. 365, erroneously listing the lot number in the Lehmann sale as 'Lot 20', and identifying the present work as the ex-Simonet painting.
P. Rosenberg, Fragonard, exhibition catalogue, Paris and New York, 1987, p. 566, under no. 297, fig. 9.
P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris, 1989, p. 104, no. 297, illustrated, identifying the present work as the ex-Simonet painting.
P. Rosenberg, 'The Blind Man of the Quinze-Vingts by Chardin and the Young Girl with a Marmot by Fragonard at the Fogg', in C.P. Schneider, W.W. Robinson, A.I. Davies, eds., Shop talk : studies in honor of Seymour Slive : presented on his seventy-fifth birthday, Cambridge, Mass., 1995, pp. 212-215, 393, ns. 21, 24, fig. 7.
G. Faroult, 'La Vielleuse par Marie-Anne Loir au musée de Riom: fortune d'une iconographie savoyarde, entre peinture et littérature au XVIIIe siècle,' Bulletin de la Socie´te´ de l'Histoire de l'Art Franc¸ais: Année 2003, 2004, p. 252-253, 256, ns. 57-58, fig. 9, erroneously identifying the ex-Vassal version with the present painting in the text, yet correctly identifying the ex-Vassal version with the painting on copper of smaller dimensions in the footnote.
oil on canvas
17 x 12 1/8 in. (43.3 x 30.8 cm.)
