François Boucher
Allegory of Music
1764103.5 x 130 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right in black paint, FB in monogram: FBoucher 1764
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. 449
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 5
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. 1
M. Féral. Gustave Rothan, Paris, by 1874
his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 29-31 May 1890, nr. 122
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 Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1946 to NGA
Other works by François Boucher
Are They Thinking about the Grape?
1747
1747
Earth: Vertumnus and Pomona
1749
1749
Venus and Cupid
Venus and Vulcan
1754
1754
The Judgment of Paris
1754
1754