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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 25, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Old Master Paintings | 97 | $****** - ****** | ‘L’Amour’: said to be a Portrait of Marie Catherine Colombe (1751-1830) as Cupid |
paintings
55.9 x 46 cm (22 x 18.13 in)
oil on canvas, oval
Private collection, near Grasse, by 1889.
Mrs. Barlow Webb, Holmdale, Holmbury St. Mary; (†), Sotheby's, London, 12 December 1934, lot 24B, as 'Diana' and part of a pair.
Acquired in 1937 by the present owner.
New York, Wildenstein, Five Centuries of Ballet, 1575-1944, 13 April-13 May 1944, no. 113.
New York, Wildenstein, French XVIIIth Century Paintings, 1948, no. 14.
Houston, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Twenty Masters of Painting, 14 January-4 February 1951, no. 7.
Houston, Allied Arts Association, Masterpieces of Painting through Six Centuries, 16-27 November 1952, no. 40.
London, Wildenstein, Important Paintings of the French XVIII Century, 21 March-28 April 1956, no. 39.
London, Wildenstein, Important Paintings and Drawings by Continental Masters, XVIth-XXth Centuries, 8 June-29 July 1960, no. 24.
London, Wildenstein, Portraits 15th to 19th Centuries, 10 July-10 August 1963, no. 29.
Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Kyoto, Municipal Museum, Fragonard, 18 March-29 June 1980, no. 66.
H. Peyre, 'Logic and Passion', Art News, XLVI, no. 12, February 1948, pp. 32, 51.
Antiques, October 1952, p. 284.
Connoisseur, December 1959, p. 182.
G. Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard, London, 1960, p. 291, no. 419; also cited under no. 418, fig. 178.
J. Cailleux, 'Fragonard as Painter of the Colombe Sisters' Burlington Magazine, CII, no. 690, September 1960, p. vii and n. 45.
R. Guilly, 'Jean-Honoré Fragonard', Kindlers Malerei Lexikon, II, Zurich, 1965, p. 423.
The Connoisseur, CLXI, no. 650, April 1966, p. 252, fig. 3.
F. Boucher, Fragonard, Paris, 1966, p. 13.
D. Wildenstein and G. Mandel, L'Opera completa di Fragonard, Milan, 1972, p. 105, no. 441.
J.-P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard: vie et oeuvre, catalogue complet des peintures, Fribourg, 1987, pp. 237, 303, no. 225, fig. 297.
P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris, 1989, p. 97, no. 239.
A. Molotiu, Fragonard’s Allegories of Love, Los Angeles, 2007, pp. 110-111, fig. 75.
J.-P. Cuzin and D. Salmon, Fragonard / regards croisés, Paris, 2007, pp. 89, 90, 201, 202, 228, n. 54, fig. 125.
