Jean Alaux
Léon Pallière (1787-1820) in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome
181758.1 × 45.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, dated, and inscribed lower left: J. alaux / Roma / 1817
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Provenance
Probably gift of the artist to the sitter, Rome and Bordeaux, 1817–died 1820
?his widow, Mme Louis-Vincent-Léon Pallière (Françoise-Virginie Liégois), later Mme Jean Alaux, Bordeaux and Paris, 1820–died 1880
her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18-19 May 1880, possibly nr. 10, as Alaux, "Intérieur de son atelier à la villa Médicis"
sale, Sotheby's, New York, 24 January 2002, nr. 91, to Hazlitt
with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 2002; sold to Wrightsman
Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York, 2002–died 2019; cat., 2005, nr. 91
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