François Boucher
Allegory of Painting
1765101.5 x 130 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right in black paint: FBoucher (FB in monogram) - 1765
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. 446
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 4
Provenance
Possibly Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (1745-1777)
Traditionally said to have been brought into France by the early 19th century by Général de Saint-Maurice. M. Maillet du Boullay, Paris
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 January 1870, nr. 2
M. Féral
Gustave Rothan, Paris, by 1874
his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 29-31 May 1890, nr. 123
Fréret
Adèle, 4th duchesse de Dino (née Adèle Livingston Sampson, 1842-1912; married first to Frederick W. Stevens), Paris, by 1907
probably by inheritance to her daughter, Countess Mabel Stevens Orlowski (married 1891 to Count Mieczyslaw Orlowski (1865-1929))
with Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London, sold 1942 to the Kress Foundation
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1946 to NGA
Other works by François Boucher
Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan
1754
1754
The Rising of the Sun
1753
1753
Bacchus and Erigone
1745
1745
Cupid a Captive
Shepherd piping to a Shepherdess