Théodore Chassériau

Literature

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 60

Provenance

?Armand-Charles-Septime de Fay, comte de La Tour-Maubourg, the husband of the sitter, commissioned from the artist in 1841, presumably given to de Pange
his mother-in-law, Élisabeth-Victoire-Charlotte-Henriette Thomas de Pange (née Riquet de Caraman), marquise de Pange, later comtesse de Pange et d'Empire, from 1841
her granddaughter, Gabrielle-Marie-Charlotte de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg, later baroness de Mandell d'Écosse, called the marquise de La Tour-Maubourg
her son, Fernand-Joseph-Guillaume-Septime de Mandell d'Écosse, called the marquis de La Tour-Maubourg, château de Locquénolé, Kervignac, Morbihan, Brittany, after 1892–died 1900
his widow, marquise de La Tour-Maubourg (née Anne de Perrien de Crenan), château de Locquénolé, from 1900
her daughter, Marguerite de Mandell d'Écosse de La Tour-Maubourg, later Mme Blanchet de La Sablière, Paris, until died 1983
?her estate
private collection, until 2002
sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 27 June 2002, nr. 165, to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 2002.291

Other works by Théodore Chassériau

Combat of Arab horsemen
1856

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
1851

Christ Carrying the Cross
c. 1838

Portrait of a Spanish Princess after El Greco
c. 1838

Petra Camara
1852