Jean Marc Nattier
Madame Le Fevre de Caumartin as Hebe
1753102.5 x 81.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left: Nattier pinxit. / 1753.
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. 465
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 74
Provenance
Traditionally said to have belonged to Odette-Marie de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1853-1874), wife of comte Antoine de Gramont d'Aster (1846-1894)
presumably by inheritance to her brother, Louis-Paul-Anatole, marquis de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1857-1883)
by inheritance to his widow (née Claude-Étiennette-Marie-Octavie de Sauvan d'Aramon, 1864-1936)
with Wildenstein & Co., Paris, New York, and London
sold December 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1946 to NGA
Other works by Jean-Marc Nattier
Madame Adélaïde of France Tying Knots
1756
1756
Portrait of Fernando de Silva y Alvarez of Toledo, 12th Duke of Alba and Duke of Huescar (1714-1776)
Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson
1745
1745
Marie Thérèse Geoffrin, Marquise de La Ferté-Imbault
Miniature Portrait of César-François Cassini de Thury
c. 1750
c. 1750