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Jean Marc Nattier (Paris 1685-1766)
- Portrait de femme en Source

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Jean Marc Nattier (Paris 1685-1766)
Portrait de femme en Source
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    $60,000 - $80,000

Sale Information

Sale 2322
Old Masters & 19th Century Art Including Select Works From the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries
9 June 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza Buy Catalog





Lot Description

Jean Marc Nattier (Paris 1685-1766)
Portrait de femme en Source
signed and dated 'Nattier 1752' (on the urn, lower right)
oil on canvas
39¼ x 31 3/8 in. (99.7 x 79.5 cm.)

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Provenance

(Possibly) George Francis Wyndham, 4th and last Earl of Egremont (1785-1845), Devon; (+) Christie's, London, 21 May 1892, lot 66 (1070 gns), where acquired by
(Possibly) Lesser collection.
Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild (1836-1905), Vienna; and by descent to his nephew
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1878-1942), Vienna.
Confiscated in August 1938 by the Nazi authorities.
Restituted in 1947 to the Rothschild family.
with Rosenberg & Steibel, March 1949, where purchased by the current owner.

Literature

(Possibly) A. Graves, Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century, London, 1921, II, p. 279.
(Possibly) G. Reitlinger, The Economics of Taste: The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices, 1760-1969, London, 1961, p. 403.
S. Lillie, Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens, Vienna, 2003, p. 1027, no. 701 in Alphonse and Clarice Rothschild's inventory.
F. Kunth, Die Rothschild'schen Gemäldesammlungen in Wien, Vienna, Cologne and Weimar, 2006, pp. 252-253, no. 701 in Alphonse and Clarice Rothschild's inventory.

Exhibited

London, Wildenstein, Important Paintings of the French XVIII Century, 21 March-28 April 1956, no. 36.
Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, De Watteau à Prud'hon, 11-31 May 1956, no. 68.
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, French Masters of the Eighteenth Century, 27 February-7 April 1963, no. 9.

Lot Notes

The present lot will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the works of Jean Marc Nattier being prepared by Joseph Baillio with the assistance of the Wildenstein Institute as 'Jean Marc Nattier'.

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