Jean Marc Nattier
Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson
1745137.9 x 105.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated center left at base of column: Nattier / 1745
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 431
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 73
Provenance
Duc de Mailly
Théodore Richard (1782-1859), Paris
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-20 and 22 March 1858, nr. 176, with sitter misidentified as Portrait of Bouffon
sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 March 1877, nr. 42, with sitter misidentified as Portrait of Bouffon
Gustave Rothan
his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 29-31 May 1890, nr. 176, as Portrait of a Man
L. Cahen d'Anvers, Paris, by 1900
A. de Rothschild, by 1906
with Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London, by 4 May 1936
comte X...
his sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 18 March 1937, nr. A
purchased by Damidot
with Galerie Cailleux, Paris, by 1952
purchased 1954 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1961 to NGA
Other works by Jean-Marc Nattier
Portrait of Fernando de Silva y Alvarez of Toledo, 12th Duke of Alba and Duke of Huescar (1714-1776)
Madame Le Fevre de Caumartin as Hebe
1753
1753
Marie Thérèse Geoffrin, Marquise de La Ferté-Imbault
Miniature Portrait of César-François Cassini de Thury
c. 1750
c. 1750
Madame Royer, née Louise-Geneviève Le Blond
c. 1750
c. 1750