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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 | Old Masters | 125 | $****** - ****** | Girl with a bird | |||
Oct 31, 2017 | Christie's | New York | Old Masters | 39 | $****** - ****** | Girl with a bird |
paintings
75.3 x 63.3 cm (29.65 x 24.92 in)
oil on canvas
Samuel Rogers, Esq. (1763-1855), London; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 2 May 1856, lot 588, as 'A GIRL WITH A BIRD, the celebrated engraved work', where acquired for 230 gns. by
Sir Robert Strange, London; Christie's, London, 2 May 1874, lot 64 (bought in) and by inheritance to
Mrs. Strange, 20 Gordon House Road, Highgate; Christie's, London, 29 June 1889, lot 43.
Lawrence Kimbull, M.P., Barleythorpe, Oakham, Rutland; Christie's, London, 12 July 1935, lot 12 (220 gns. to Nicholson).
Private collection, USA, where acquired by the following
with Kenneth Hutter, New York, where acquired by the present owner.
(Probably) The Morning Herald, 8 April 1785 ('... a girl fondling a bird. These subjects are fancy studies of Sir Joshua's and do him honour'.).
A. Jameson, Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London, London, 1844, p. 410.
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, II, p. 75, no. 3.
E. Hamilton, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, PRA from 1755 to 1822, London, 1884, p. 142.
F. G. Stephens, English Children as Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1884, pp. 74, 78.
A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., London, 1899, III, p. 1136, with incorrect provenance.
Sir W. Armstrong, Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1900, p. 238.
D. Mannings and M. Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A complete catalogue of his paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, pp. 533-34, no. 2080, as untraced and with incorrect provenance.
Girl with a bird
oil on canvas
29 5/8 x 24 7/8 in. (75.3 x 63.3 cm.)
