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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 14, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Old Master Paintings Part I | 158 | $****** - ****** | An elegant couple singing by candlelight ('The Duet') |
paintings
19 x 15.6 cm (7.48 x 6.14 in)
oil on panel
Madame Saint Sauveur (presumably Madeleine Suzanne Goullet de Rugy, wife of Jean Anne de Grégoire de Saint-Sauveur, Marquis de Saint-Sauveur (1720-1777)); her sale, Hötel d'Aligre, Paris, 12 February 1776 and days following, lot 51. Verrier collection; his sale, Hötel d'Aligre, Paris, 18 November 1776 and days following, lot 92, where acquired by "Vautris" or "Vautrin" (according to an annotation in the Frick Art Reference Library copy of sale catalogue). Charles Francois René Mesnard, Chevalier de Clesle (d. 1803); his sale, Paillet, Paris, 4 December 1786, and days following, lot 62 (incorrectly lists painting support as canvas). Louis Jean Francois Collet (1722-1787), Paris; his sale, (†), Paris, 96 rue de Cléry, 14-23 May 1787, lot 289, where acquired by Jean Baptiste Pierre Lebrun (1748-1813), Paris. Probably with Alexis Delahante, Paris, according to an old inscription, as recorded in M.W. Brockwell, 1915 ( loc. cit .). Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), London, from whom acquired in 1872 by Sir Francis Cook, Bart. (1817-1901), Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, and by descent to his son Sir Frederick Cook, 2nd Bart. (1844-1920) and by descent to his son Sir Herbert Cook, Bart. (1868-1939) and by descent to The Trustees of the Cook 1939 Picture Settlement;
Christie's, London, 6 July 1984, lot 108, as 'Attributed to Nicolas Lancret', where acquired by the following. with Harari & Johns, London. Anonymous sale; Tajan, Paris, 17 December 1997, lot 321, where acquired by the following.
Private collection
London, Guildhall, Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Pictures by Painters of the French School , Spring 1898, no. 53, as 'Watteau'. London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, French Art Of the Eighteenth Century , Spring-early Summer 1913, no. 6, as 'Watteau'. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 1940s, on loan (according to a label on the reverse). Tokyo, Gallery Iida (in association with Harari & Johns, Ltd.), An Exhibition of French Painting, 1600-1800 , 7 June-2 July 1988, no. 15. Tokyo, Odakyu Grand Gallery; Umeda-Osaka, Daimaru Museum; Hakodate, Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art; Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art, Three Masters of French Rococo: Boucher, Fragonard, Lancret , 4 April-12 August 1990, no. 48
E. Bocher, 'Les Gravures françaises du XVIIIe siècle, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes, eaux-fortes', part 4, Nicolas Lancret , Paris, 1877, pp. 95, 97. E.F.S. Dilke, 'L'Art français au Guildhall de Londres en 1898', Gazette des Beaux-Arts , 3e pér., XX, no. 496, October 1898, p. 330. E.F.S. Dilke, French Painters Of the XVIIIth Century , London, 1899, pp. 85-86, where attribution to Watteau questioned. E. Staley, Watteau and His School , London, 1902, p. 146, as Watteau. E.H. Zimmermann, Watteau: des Meisters Werke , Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1912, p. 118, where listed among rejected attributions to Watteau; erroneously lists support as canvas. M.W. Brockwell, 'A Catalogue Of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond & Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Bt.', H. Cook, ed., Ill, English, French, Early Flemish, German and Spanish Schools and Addenda , London, 1915, p. 56, no. 437, pl. VII, as Watteau. G. Wildenstein, Lancret , Paris, 1924, p. 105, no. 540, fig. 201. Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook, Bart, London, 1932, p. 7, no. 437 (13), as 'Antoine Watteau'. H. Adhémar and R. Huyghe, Watteau, sa vie-son oeuvre , Paris, 1950, p. 234, no. 237, as possibly by either Jean Raoux or Jean Baptiste Santerre. É. Dacier, 'Catalogues des ventes et livrets de salons illustrés et annotés par Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. 12. Catalogue de la vente Verrier (1776)', Gazette des Beaux-Arts , 6e pér., XLl, nos. 1012-1013, May-June 1953, pp. 307, 317, 318, 331, n. 7. 'Two More Watteaus?', The Watteau Society Bulletin , no. 2, 1985, pp. 17, 18
