François Boucher

Madame Bergeret



François Boucher - Madame Bergeret



François Boucher
Madame Bergeret
c. 1766
143.5 x 105.4 cm
Oil on canvas
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. 445
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 6


Provenance

Pierre Jacques Onésyme Bergeret de Grancourt (1715-1785), husband of the sitter, Paris
by inheritance to their elder son, Pierre Jacques Bergeret de Grancourt (1742-1807), Cassan
by inheritance to his stepson (the son of his second wife, Catherine Julie Xavier Poisson de la Chabeaussière, by her first marriage), Ange Philibert de la Girennerie, Cassan
by inheritance to his aunt (a sister of his mother), Barbe Françoise Victoire Poisson de la Chabeaussière Cotillon de Torcy
by inheritance to her daughter, Françoise Julie Cotillon de Torcy Le Bos de Sainte Croix
by inheritance to her daughter, Angélique Le Bos de Sainte Croix, comtesse Fontaine de Resbecq
by inheritance to the Resbecq family
sold by 1920 to Wildenstein & Co., Paris, New York, and London
sold 1942 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1946 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1946.7.3

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François Boucher Shepherd piping to a Shepherdess
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François Boucher The Bath of Venus
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François Boucher Are They Thinking about the Grape?
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