Young Woman with a Muff

Provenance

Principe Sciarra, Rome;[1] sold to Barone Michele Angelo Lazzaroni, Rome and Paris, by 1904; sold 1906 to (Ehrich Galleries, New York); sold 1913 to Mrs. Whitelaw Reid [née Elisabeth Mills, 1858-1931], Ophir Hall, Purchase, New York; (her estate sale, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 17 May 1935, no. 1191); Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; gift 1943 to NGA.[2] [1] Perhaps Maffeo Barberini Colonna di Sciarra, Principe de Carbognano (1850-1906), who for a time resided in Paris, where in 1906 he married Aliette de Bonneval. [2] Chester Dale collection records provide this provenance, which is based on a letter of 30 September 1935 from Walter Ehrich to Mary Bullard (then Mrs. Dale's secretary) in which he writes: "...we purchased this picture from Baron M. Lazzaroni in Paris in 1906. He had purchased it from the Collection of Prince Sciarra." Baron Lazzaroni lent the painting to an exhibition in Brussels in 1904. The original 1935 letter and a copy of the Dale collection records are in NGA curatorial files.

Young Woman with a Muff

French 18th Century

c. 1750

Accession Number

1943.7.5

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 118 x 95.3 cm (46 7/16 x 37 1/2 in.) | framed: 149.9 x 127.6 cm (59 x 50 1/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection