Provenance
E. Sichel, Paris, 1898 [according to the 1941 Parke-Bernet sale catalogue and a letter from Julius Weitzner to John Maxon dated March 31, 1969, Archives, Art Institute]. Mrs. Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1941; sold Parke-Bernet, New York, April 30–May 3, 1941, vol. 2, no. 977, to A. Cohen, as Greuze [according to verbal communication between Susan Wise and Sotheby’s New York on October 25, 1982, notes in curatorial file]. Sold Christie’s, London, March 8, 1968, no. 112, as by Greuze, to Perman, for 240 gns., perhaps acting as agent for Weitzner [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Ryerson Library, Art Institute]. Julius Weitzner, London, by 1969; sold to the Art Institute, 1969.
Accession Number
109885
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Oval: 64.3 × 53 cm (25 5/16 × 20 7/8 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Credit Line
Given in memory of Forsyth Wickes by Mrs. Forsyth Wickes and Mrs. Ralph Poole