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Dictionary of pastellists before 1800
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF COLLECTORS
This index covers art collectors who have owned pastels, as well as some dealers and others who may be of interest to users of the Dictionary. It is not a complete list of former owners (for example, owners of single works or those who have inherited family portraits are not normally included) - they may be found using the search facility. It includes dates of known sales, some inventories and lists of pastels known to have been owned but not sold publicly; pictures traded by dealers (only long established firms are included) are not listed in extenso, but may be found by searching the Dictionary. Attributions in [ ] indicate changes from those in the source document (e.g. sales catalogue), but for full details of each pastel, see the main article for the artist. Further biographical details will be found in the references cited or in standard biographical sources which we have not attempted to duplicate (so that longer entries are given for less well known subjects). Note also that some pastellists included in the Dictionary were also active as collectors; details will then be found in the relevant article (signalled by "Dictionary, artists"). Iconographies for a number of eighteenth century connoisseurs may be found in the iconographical genealogies (signalled by "Dictionary, genealogy"). Where collections have passed intact in museums, they are not separately listed (consult the Collections file for complete listings, or use the search facility). Living collectors are omitted except where their collections have been published.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Didier AARON, dealers in old master pictures, furniture and objets d'art in Paris, London and New York, established 1923.
Sir Robert Henry Edward ABDY, 5th Bt (1896-1976), art collector, of Grosvenor Square, Newton Ferrers and Paris. His predecessor, Sir William Neville Abdy, 2nd Bt (1844-1910), formed an important collection of mainly Italian paintings, sold at Christie's, 5.V.1911. Sir Robert inherited a large fortune which enabled him to lead an eccentric life as a connoisseur and collector, spending two years in the Louvre studying XVIIIe furniture. In divorce papers in 1928 he was described as a dealer. Part of his collection, including pictures from early Flemish to Sickert, was sold at Sotheby's, 28.V.1936.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989; Peter Quennell, letter to The Times, 25.XI.1976
Pastels: La Tour, Dumont le romain; Perronneau, ??Miron
Alexandre-Denis ABEL DE PUJOL (1785-1861), French painter and portraitist.
Paris, 7.XII.1861:
Lot 56: La Tour, inconnue [B&W 764]
ADOLF FREDRIK, konung av Sverige (1710-1771).
Dictionary, genealogy, Sverige
Lit.: Lespinasse 1911, p. 305
Inventory:
1. Un paysage en pastel, par Oudry (DKr 1200)
23. Tête d'un vieillard, seigné en Pastel (DKr 50)
AGNEW'S, leading dealers in old master pictures in London. The firm was established by Thomas Agnew in partnership with V. Zanetti, of Manchester, in 1817, and traded from 43 Old Bond Street from 1876 to 2008. Thomas's son was also Thomas ( –1883), while his son, William Lockett Agnew (1858–1918) ran the firm after the retirement of his uncle Sir William ( –1910) in 1896 and of Morland Agnew in 1913. The firm's stock has included pastels by Rosalba, Greuze, La Tour, Liotard and Perronneau as well as English artists from Greenhill to Lawrence.
Maurice AICARDI (1919-2007), avocat, Palais-Royal, Paris.
Vente succession, Paris, Drouot, Pecheteau-Badin, 26.XI.2007 [with short biography]
Lot 80: Huet, perdrix; Lot 90: a/r Boucher, Mme Deshays; Lot 91: a/r Boucher, jeune fille; Lot 116: a/r La Tour, Monnet; Lot 119: Mercier, auto
George ALLAN (1736-1800), FSA, of Blackwell Grange, County Durham, eminent antiquary and collector. According to Hutchinson's
Antiquities of Durham, which Allan promoted, he had a collection of numerous crayons attributed to Place but which may have included
ones by Greenhill. He also owned a pastel by Gainsborough. Anonymous pastels of him and his wife are now in the NPG, London.
Lit.: Burke, Commmoners
Léon ALLARD DE MEEÛS.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreuil, 6-7.VI.1910:
Lot 2: Bernard, homme 1757; Lot 7: J.-A.-M. Lemoine, Caroline des Courtils; Lot 8: Lenoir, Mme Danès; Lot 9: Lenoir, inconnue; Lot 11: Naudin, inconnu; Lot 16: Mme Roslin, Roslin; Éc. fr.: Lot 18: Gluck; Lots 20-21: inconnues; Lots 22-24: inconnus
August ALLEBÉ (1838-1927), Dutch painter and lithographer, bequeathed a pastel by Andriessen (Verstegh) to the Rijksmuseum in 1927.
Nicolas Eustache AMBATIELOS (1885–1956), a Greek shipowner, purchased the La Tour président de Rieux from Gimpel and Wildenstein in 1919 for £48,000 but was unable to pay; his finances were greatly damaged by a long-running dispute with the British government over the late delivery of nine ships. He sued for £8 million but the case was only decided (against him) after his death.
Alexandre ANANOFF (1910-1992): born in Tbilisi, Ananoff was an early enthusiast and writer about space, publishing the seminal work L'Astronautique in 1950, the year in which he organised the first international congress on the subject in Paris. By the end of the 1950s he had turned his attention to art history, publishing an important, if flawed, catalogue of Boucher.
Pastels: H. Drouais, dame en Flore
Édouard ANDRÉ (1833-1894) was born into a family of bankers but trained initially as a soldier. He turned to collecting around 1864, a few years later commissioning Henri Parent to build the hôtel on the boulevard Haussmann that now houses the collection he formed with his wife, the painter Nélie [Nelly] Jacquemart (1841-1912). The musée Jacquemart-André is now owned by the Institut de France.
Lit.: Chardin 1979; Donateurs 1989; Rieder 2000
Antoine-François, comte ANDRÉOSSY (1761-1828), général, diplomate.
Paris, Navoit, Laneuville, 13-16.IV.1864:
Lot 4: La Tour, Jolyot de Crébillon; Lit 7: Mengs, Tromp; Lot 472: Biard, femme
John Julius ANGERSTEIN (1735-1823), born in St Petersburg, moved to London around 1749 and became a successful merchant and art collector. His collection, formed with advice from Sir Thomas Lawrence, was purchased after his death to form the National Gallery. His daughter Julia married General Sabloukoff; a pastel by Lawrence descended to William Angerstein until the 1896 sale.
London, Christie's, 4.VII.1896:
Lot 101: Lawrence, Mrs Boucherette
Charles-Claude Flahaut de La Billarderie, comte d'ANGIVILLER (1730-1809), directeur-général des Bâtiments 1774. The second comtesse, née Adélaïde-Émilie Filleul (1761-1836), owned a pastel by Labille-Guiard (Brizard) in 1783.
Lit.: Grove 1996; Rosenberg 2007; Procès-verbaux
M. AUBRY.
Paris, Guilleaumont, Basan, 9.II.1773 & seq.:
Lot 95: Pellegrini: Trois compositions différentes de Vénus & de l'Amour, faites au Pastel [60 livres 1 sol; Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun]
Lot 232: [Anon.]: [Un porte-feuille rempli de différents Dessins; Savoir.] Une tête de vieillard au pastel. [4 livres 16 sols; Framoir]
M. Benoist AUDRAN, graveur.
Vente p.m., Paris, Joullain fils, 30.III.1772 & seq.:
Lot 207: [Anon.]: Plusieurs morceaux peints au pastel, à gouazze & en miniature; ils seront aussi divisés
August III., v. Friedrich
Le chevalier d'AUFRERY: Lent numerous pastels to the Salon de Toulouse between 1784 and 1791. No doubt related to the abbé Jacques-Henri de Carrière d'Aufrery (1724-1786), conseiller au parlement de Toulouse and well-known author.
Pastels: Bauzil; Dupin; Emet; Gounon; Hubert; Vialètes
Henri-Eugène-Philippe-Louis, duc d'AUMALE (1822-1897), politician and collector, fifth son of Louis-Philippe (1773-1850) and Marie-Amélie (1782-1866). Exiled to England after 1848; he rebult the Orléans collection from his home in Twickenham. The collection now forms the musée Condé ar Chantilly.
v.q. Lenoir
Lit.: Chantilly 2005; Lugt 2779
Pastels: v. Collections, Chantilly
Jules-Marie-François AUSSANT (1805-1872), physician and archeologist in Rennes; professeur de chimie appliqué, école de médecine de Rennes, 1831; founder member and secretary of the Société des sciences et arts de Rennes; Association bretonne; Société archéologique d'Ille-et-Vilaine; founder, directeur honoraire du musée de Rennes
Lit.: DBF
Paris, 28-30.XII.1863:
Lot 46: La Tour, Goyon de Vaudurant [Vigée Le Brun, Beaujon]
Jacques-André-Joseph Camelot AVED (1702-1766), painter; he was a friend of Chardin and owned nine of his still-lifes at his death.
Dictionary, artists
Lit.: Chardin 1979
Giovanni AZZAVEDI, Rome: his inventory (12.I.1668) included a dozen sheets by Ottavio Leoni described as pastels.
Paul BACH, Coburg: a large collection of pastels associated with the Bach family were lent to the Meiningen exhibition of 1904.
Henri BADEROU, historien d'art, marchand, and his wife Suzanne, peintre: their major collection of French drawings and paintings was given to the musée de Beaux-Arts de Rouen in 1975.
Lit.: "La Donation Suzanne et Henri Baderou au musée de Rouen", Études de la Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, i, 1980; Donateurs 1989
Pastels: Lemoyne, Tête d'Hébé; tête d'homme; Valade, inconnu; inconnue
Louis-Guillaume, baron de BAILLET DE SAINT-JULIEN (fl.1748-73), poet, art critic and collector. He was a particular enthusiast for the naturalistic style of Chardin and La Tour.
Lit.: Grove 1996
Paris, Dogue, Remy, 10-13.XII.1759 & seq.
Lot 376: Boucher: Quatre Desseins de M. Boucher tant aux crayons rouge & noir qu'au Pastel, dont une Léda & un Bain de Nymphe, morceaux très piquans [12 livres]
Paris, 21.VI.1784
La présidente de BANDEVILLE, née Marie-Anne-Catherine Bigot de Graveron ( -1787), veuve de Pierre-François Doublet, marquis de Bandeville (1705-1761): she acquired several pastels at the Jullienne sale in 1767. Her natural history collection was one of the most important of the day.
Dictionary, genealogy Doublet
Lit.: Jeffares 2002; Marandet 2003a
Inv. p.m., AN lxxvi 505, 2.VIII.1787
Paris, Hayot, Remy, 3-10.XII.1787
Henry John Ralph BANKES (1902-1981), bequeathed Kingston Lacy to the National Trust, with the collections built up largely by his great-great uncle William John Bankes (1786-1855), collector and traveller. The estate was originally acquired by Sir John Bankes (1689-1644), chief justice.
Pastels: Greenhill, Betterton
Sigismond BARDAC (1856-1919), banker: René Gimpel bought some of Sigismond's colllection two years before his death; the major sale was in 1920. Sigismond's wife Emma Moÿse (1862-1934) was Fauré's muse (their daughter Dolly inspired the suite); after her divorce in 1905, she married Debussy. Sigismond's brothers Noël (born 1849 in Odessa) and Joseph were also collectors; Joseph's sale was held in 1927.
Lit.: Gimpel 1963
Paris, Georges Petit, 10-11.V.1920:
Lot 17: Chardin, ?Bachelier; Lot 20: Éc. fr., Un peintre de fleurs; Lot 25: La Tour, Mme Rouillé, Lot 28: Perronneau, Dame sd 1744; Lot 29: Perronneau, Puente-Fuerte; Lot 30: Perronneau, inconnu [Cazotte]
Other pastels: Fragonard, L'Île d'amour; La Tour, Mme Dorizon; Nattier, M & Mme Royer
Paul BARROILHET (1810-1871), opera singer and collector: "on l'a vu réunir et vendre à plusieurs reprises des collections assez curieuses" (Grand Larousse, 1867, p. 267f); this included a number of paintings by Chardin. Couture's portrait of the singer is in the Fogg Museum.
Lit.: Chardin 1979
Paris, Pillet, 10.III.1856
Paris, Drouot, Escribe, 29.III., 2-3.IV.1860
Bartolomeo BARZI, Rome.
Inv. 29.XII.1645
Pastels: Reni, figura; testa
Pierre-François BASAN (1723-1797), graveur, marchand d'estampes, commissaire-priseur.
Lit.: Pierre Casselle, "Pierre François Basan", Mémoires, Paris et Île de France, xxxiii, 1982, pp. 99-185; Marandet 2003a
Paris, Regnault, 1-19.XII.1798:
Lot 75: Boucher: Vénus & les Amours; dessin aux trois crayons mêlés de pastels, sur papier bleu. Haut. 14 pouc. larg. 10 pouc. 10 lign. [Fr28; Juliete]
Lot 76: Boucher: Huit Etudes; Figures académiques, Enfans & Têtes de jeunes filles; aux trois crayons & au pastel [Fr14, Varaine]
Lot 907: Portrait d'une jeune femme peint en pastel, with Ariadne, tapisserie de Lazare Bruandet [Fr 9; Godet]
BAUDENS, chirugien en chef du Val de Grace.
Vente p.m., Paris, Pillet, 1.VI.1858:
Lot 54: La Tour, inconnue
Baudicour, v. Collette
Sir Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount BEARSTED (1853-1927), founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which merged with Royal Dutch in 1907, and of one of the constituents in the banking firm of Hill Samuel. His grandson, Peter Montefiore Samuel (1911-1996), of Farley Hall, Farley Hill, Berkshire, succeeded as 4th Viscount; he was also a director of Hill Samuel and of Shell. He inherited a Liotard sold after his death.
Lit.: Oxford DNB
London, Christie's, 13.XII.1929:
Lot 45: Russell, Rev. & Mrs Pattrick
London, Sotheby's, 10.VII.2002:
Lot 214: Liotard, Lady Fawkener
Nicolas BEAUJON (1712-1786), négociant à Bordeaux et Paris; secrétaire du roi 1766; directeur de la Caisse d'escompte 1767; conseiller d'État 1769. His vast wealth was founded on manipulating the grain market in Bordeaux, and later in life he atoned by endowing the Hospice Beaujon, to be decorated with a portrait by Vigée Le Brun. In 1773 he acquired Mme de Pomadour's hôtel d'Evreux (now the Élysée palace) for 1 million livres, and here he displayed his extraordinary art collection included Holbein's Ambassadors; two Rembrandts; five Rubens; a remarkable series of Dutch pictures by Metsu Van Ostade, Hals, Wouwermann, Van de Velde, Wenix etc., as well as pictures by old and modern French masters. His posthumous sale also included a number of anonymous pastels.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Gustave Labat, Actes de l'Académie nationale des sciences, belles lettres et arts de Bordeaux, 1901, pp. 47-108, and 1906, pp. 17-31; André Masson, Un mécène bordelais: Nicolas Beaujon 1718-1782, Bordeaux, 1937; André Masson, "La Galerie Beaujon", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1937, pp. 47-59.
Vente p.m., Paris, Girardin, Boileau, Remy, Joullain fils, 25.IV.-4.V.1787:
Tableaux en pastel
Lot 242. Une tricoteuse & une devideuse de laine, bustes de forme ovale, de 15 pouces sur 12 pouces, sous verre, bordure dorée [15 livres]
Lot 243. Une joueuse de vielle & un jeune garçon qui tient de cartes [15 livres]
Lot 244. Deux Femmes, dont une tient une lettre ouverte [10 livres]
Lot 245. Un pierrot qui tient un oiseau, & une Jardinière [18 livres]
Lot 246. Une jeune Paysane donnant à manger à des poules, & un jeune garçon qui fait danser un chien [12 livres]
Lot 247. Une Paysanne qui trait une vache, & un homme assis, tenant un flageolet, en gardant un boeuf [12 livres]
Lot 248. Une buste de Flora & une autre femme [5 livres; Bourbon?]
Rex BEAUMONT (1914-1988), companion of Howard Bury, who inherited Belvedere House, Mullingar in 1912, a Palladian villa built by the 1st Earl of Belvedere in 1740. Beaumont acquired the house on Bury's death; it was sold to the local council in 1982.
Belvedere, Mullingar, Christie's, 9.VII.1980:
Lot 247: Rogers, Lord Charleville; Lots 248-256: Johnston, Perceval family; Lot 277: Hamilton, Lord Charleville
Hugues de BEAUMONT (1874-1947), peintre. Lent a femme âgée by Lenoir to the Paris 1927a exhibition.
Jacques-Firmin BEAUVARLET (1731-1797), graveur.
Dictionary, artists
Vente p.m.: Paris, Poultier, Regnault, 13.III.1798:
Lot 75: [Anon.]: Des Têtes peintes au pastel & montées sous verre, & plusieurs vieilles Bordures, seront pareillement divisées sous ce no [405 frs 6 avec le lot 74]
Lot 78: Les Elémens, & Hercule & Omphale; ces cinq compositions sont exécutées à la pierre noire, mêlée de sanguine & de pastel, [copie par Beauvarlet] d'après L. Giordano [72 frs 3; Hubert]
Mme Aimé-Louis-Victor BECQ DE FOUQUIÈRES, née Marie-Françoise-Hélène de Groiseilliez (1836-1925): wife of the man of letters (1831-1887), parent of François-Jacques (1866-1945), censeur des théâtres, donor of a painting to the Louvre
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Paris, 8.V.1925:
Lot 29: La Tour, inconnue [B&W 895]
Other pastels: La Tour, auto; ??Mlle Dangeville
Michel V BÉGON (1638-1710), intendant de Rochefort: in a letter to his friend Cabart de Villermont of 3.IV.1689, he mentions a pastel of Cabart's son, adding that he has several which are "incomparablement plus beaux". No details are given.
Lit.: Jal 1872, p. 172
Martine-Marie Pol, comtesse de BÉHAGUE (1869-1939), traveller, collector and patron of the arts. She married René-Marie-Hector de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1862-p.1920), lieutenant de cavalerie, in 1890; she brought a dowry of 3.5 million francs. The couple were divorced 1920. She became the muse of Paul Valéry. She lived at the Hôtel de Béhague (now the ambassade de Roumanie), 123 rue St-Dominique, Paris 7e, which she decorated lavishly in the Byzantine style, with other properties such as the château de Fleury-en-Brière and La Polynésie in the Côte d'Azur. In 1909 she donated an Italian frame for the Mona Lisa to the Louvre. An inventory of her wide ranging collections (including pictures by Titian, Watteau, Tiepolo and Fragonard) is in the Bibliothèque Forney. Some of these were inherited by her nephew Hubert, marquis de Ganay (q.v.).
Lit.: Bottin Mondain 1936; Donateurs 1989; Rosenberg 2007
Paris, Drouot-Richelieu, Laurin Guilloux Buffetaud Tailleur, 29.XI.1995
Carlos de BEISTEGUI (1863-1953): member of a Basque family that settled in Mexico and derived its fortune from silver mining. He was a major donor to the Louvre. His nephew Charles de Beistegui (1894-1970), educated at Eton and Cambridge, was a socialite and decorator; he restored the château de Groussay and the Palazzo Labia in Venice, where a celebrated masked ball was held in 1951.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989; Stourton 2007
Château de Groussay; Sotheby's, 2-6.VI.1999:
Lot 331: Éc. fr., M. & Mme Cayeux; Lot 363: Oudry, paysage
Mademoiselle BELLANGER.
Paris, Caudin, Remy & Regnault, 21.III.1791 & seq.:
Lot 131: Deux compositions, peintes en pastels, par Guélard: elles offrent divers fruits posés sur des appuis. Hauteur 10 pouces, largeur 12 pouces
Pietro BELLOTTI (1721-c.1800), Venetian landscape painter, active in Toulouse and Lille; lent pastel landscape by his son to the Salon de Toulouse in 1774
Lit.: Sanchez 2004
Maxim Benediktovich BENEDIKTOV (1884-1937), musician, composer and art expert, Moscow. His fine collection of Dutch paintings, as well as four pastels by Troost and one by Barbier, was confiscated by the state in 1937 when the owner was arrested and shot, and is now in the Pushkin Museum.
Stanislas-Gabriel, baron BENOIST-MÉCHIN (1854- ), known for his travels in China and the Middle East, father of Jacques Benoist-Méchin.
Lit.: Chaix d'Est-Ange
Paris, Drouot, 7.V.1912
Henri BÉRALDI (1849-1931), bibliophile and print collector, co-author with Roger Portalis (q.v.) of Les Graveurs du xviiie siècle.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989; Lugt 230; Edward Fenton, "Edwardian Paris", The Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin, ix/7, .III.1951, pp. 190-96
Pierre-Jacques Onésyme BERGERET DE GRANCOURT (1715-1785), receveur général des finances, honoraire-associé libre 1754, honoraire amateur 1774 de l'Académie royale de peinture, friend and collector of Fragonard.
Lit.: Procès-verbaux
Inventaire p.m., 14.III.1785
Vente p.m., 24.IV.1786 & seq.:
Lot 135 & 137: Boucher, La Dormeuse & La Voluptueuse, 14 p. 6 x 11 p. 6
François-Joachim de Pierre, cardinal de BERNIS (1715-1794), archevêque, ministre and protégé of Mme de Pompadour; his collection was seized in the Revolution, and two pastels are in the musée des Augustins, Toulouse.
Dictionary, genealogy, Pierre
Lit.: Lamouzèle 1909
Pastels: Coypel, Héloïse; Éc. fr., éruption de Vésuve
BERNSTEIN, dealer, avenue de Jéna, Paris: owned two Russells (Mrs Jordan; Mrs O'Shea) 1894-1924.
Samuel Reading BERTRON, senior member of the banking firm of Bertron, Griscom & Co., 40 Wall Street; vice-president of the War Relief Clearing House for France and her allies. A friend of the Roosevelts, he was also a client and friend of René Gimpel.
Lit.: Gimpel 1963
Pastels: Greuze (2) [=?Vigée Le Brun, enfants Caillou]; La Tour, Jullienne
Paul Albert BESNARD (1849-1934), pastellist, was born into a family of artists. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts, he won the grand prix de Rome in 1874, and went on to develop a personal style influenced by impressionism. His many honours included membership of the Académie française. He provided the introduction to Georges Wildenstein's La Tour, 1928.
Lit.: R. Marx, The painter Albert Besnard, Paris, 1893; A.-C. Coppier, Les Eaux-fortes de Besnard, Paris, 1920; C. Mauclair, Albert Besnard, Paris, 1924; G. Lecomte, Albert Besnard, Paris, 1925; Lugt 67a; Grove
Paris, Charpentier, 31.V.-1.VI.1934:
Lot 64: La Tour [Éc. fr.], inconnu; Lot 218: Le Brun [Éc. fr.], inconnu
William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of BESSBOROUGH (1704-1793), politician and art collector. He was Liotard's patron, a member of
the Society of Dilettanti and of the Accademia di Disegno in Florence, and a trustee the British Museum from 1768. His son
Frederick, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (1758-1844) inherited financial difficulties, exacerbated by the gambling debts of his
wife, Lady Henrietta Spencer, and the picture collection was disposed of in several sales in 1848 and 1850. The contents of
Bessborough House in Ireland was sold by Christie's in 1901. Claude A. Ponsonby's sale (London, Christie's, 28.III.1908) included five Liotards.
In 1924 the family acquired Stansted Park (v. Museums).
Dictionary, genealogy, Ponsonby
Lit.: Oxford DNB; R&L, pp. 161f, 269; Lord Bessborough, A place in the forest, 1958
A nobleman from the country, London, Christie's, 5-7.V.1796:
Drawings Framed and Glazed
Rosalba
Lot 30: Four female heads of the seasons with plate glass, very capital; were painted for an Elector of Cologne, and bought at Monsieur Julien's sale at Paris for 120 guineas [b/i, £7]
Lot 31: Four female heads, small [£12/1/-, b/i]
London, Christie's, 5-7.II.1801:
5.II.1801:
Liotard: Lot 4: Two heads in crayons [£6/16/-; Price]
6.II.1801:
Liotard: Lot 1: An Hermaphrodite, in crayons [6 gns; Col. —mudes (?)]
7.II.1801:
Rosalba: Lot 6: Four, the Seasons, very capital, 2 h. x 1 ½ w. [23 gns, b/i]; Lot 7: Maternal Felicity, highly finished, 2 ½ h. x 2 w.; [There are those wd give 1000 Gs for 1 sh Boy!; 15 gns; Duke of St Albans]
Liotard: Lot 11: A Lady at Tambour-work, very highly finished [7 gns; Duff]; Lot 75: A Lady and Child at Breakfast, in crayons, an inimitable performance [Déjeuner Lavergne; 85 gns; Duke of St Albans]
London, Christie's, 7.IV.1801:
Lot 66: Carriera, Portrait of a lady [Head of a Suijes, annotation in Christie's copy; £15/5/-; Duke of St Albans]
London, Christie's, 10.VII.1850:
Liotard: Lot 13: Acmet Pacha, in crayons [Bonneval; 11/-; Rodel]; Lot 23: Portrait of Liotard, by himself, in crayons [7/-; Graves]; Lot 34: Portrait of Liotard in a red cap, in crayons [£2; Lord De Manley]
Julien BESSONNEAU (1842-1916) industrialised the family hemp and rope-making business Bessonneau Angers into a major enterprise which finally closed in 1966. He was also involved in the Cie Anjou Aéronautique The collection of old master and modern pictures auctioned in 1954 is from a subequent generation, possibly the député Julien Bessonneau (1880-1960).
Lit.: Jacques Bouvet, "Julien Bessonneau fils (1880-1960): fortune et infortune d'un industriel angevin", Archives d'Anjou, 1997
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Rheims, 15.VI.1954:
Lot 71: Nattier, duchesse d'Orléans; Lot 72: Perronneau, homme
Dr Theodore Deodatus Nathaniel BESTERMAN (1904–1976), bibliographer, publisher, expert on Voltaire and psychic research. He established the musée Voltaire in Les Délices, later returning to England where he established the Voltaire Foundation. He owned pastels by Knapton (Pope) and Gardner.
Jean BEURDELEY (1772-1853), a soldier under Napoléon, opened a magasin de curiosités in Paris, moving in 1830 to the Pavillon de
Hanovre, 28 boulevard des Italiens which remained the firm's premises until 1894. His son Louis-Auguste-Alfred Beurdeley (1808-1882) was
both a dealer in antiques and objets d'art as well as an ébéniste of distinction, numbering Napoleon III and Eugénie among his clients. His
illegitimate son Alfred II-Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley (1847-1919) managed the firm from 1875 until his retirement in 1895, when he devoted
himself entirely to his prodigious collections housed at his hôtel in the rue de Clichy. He amassed over 1300 drawings, 28,000 prints as
well as furniture and an important collection of Chinese porcelain, later dispersed in numerous sales from 1905 to 1920. He left Fr25,000
to the musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989; Lugt 421, 421S; Bernard Dorival, "La saga Beurdeley (1814-1919)", Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1989, pp. 191-239; Gimpel 1963; Grove
Paris, 29-30.III.1853:
Lot 79: La Tour, inconnue
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 13-15.III.1905.
Paris, 6-7.V.1920:
Lot 165: La Tour, homme
Paris, Féral, Paulme, 8-10.VI.1920:
Perronneau
Paris, 30.XI.-2.XII.1920:
Callet, 2 pstls
Étienne-Edmond Martin, baron de BEURNONVILLE (1825-1906sp), son of Étienne, baron de Martin-Beurnonville (1789-1876), nephew of the marquis de Beurnonville, and his wife Colette, sister of Frédéric Reiset (q.v.) of the Louvre. Étienne-Edmond formed an important collection of more than 1000 paintings (including works by Rembrandt, Chardin, F.-H. Drouais, Mme de Pompadour, etc.), drawings, sculpture etc.; dispersed in numerous sales between 1872 and 1906.
Lit.: Chardin 1979; Grove 1996; R. Herlequin, "Les Beurnonville", Cah. Haut-Marnais, lvii, 1959, pp. 66-78
Paris, 15.IV.1844:
Lot 85: La Tour, Marie-Thérèse
Paris, Pillet, 9-16.V.1881:
Lot 88: Greuze, prière; Lot ?: Greuze, dame; La Tour, Lot 122: Buffon [Duval de l'Épinoy], Mme de Pompadour en bergère
Paris, 21-22.V.1883:
Lot 26: La Tour, L'artiste en gilet rouge, habit violet, de ¾ vers la g. [Fr1475]; Lot 33. Perronneau, ?Mme Favart, rubans roses aux cheveux, collier de perles, robe bleue en soie borchée
Paris; 3.VI.1884:
Lot 438: La Tour, inconnue; Lot 439: La Tour, Voltaire
Paris; 16-19.II.1885:
Lots 441, 442: La Tour, inconnus
M. de BEZE.
Paris, Remy, 3.IV.1775 & seq.:
Lot 126: Un portrait de femme vue de trois quarts, par Rosalba Cariera. Ce morceau est de forme ovale. Hauteur 2 pouces 4 lignes, largeur 19 lig. [20 livres; Gros]
Lot 128: [Anon.]: Une tête de vieillard vu de trois quarts & regardent en haut. Ce tableau ragoûtant est au pastel. Hauteur 15 pouces, largeur 11 pouces 6 lignes [30 livres; Deumery?]
Pierre BEZINE, collector of pictures and drawings.
Bruxelles, Fievez, 14-15.VI.1927:
Lot 225: Russell, Blackburn
Jean-Paul BIGNON (1662-1743), abbé, prédicateur du roi, de l'Académie française 1693, was one among several members of the family to be appointed garde de la bibliothèque du roi (1719-41); he was also a conseiller amateur de l'Académie royale de peinture in 1709. His nephew Armand-Jérôme Bignon (1711-1772), also an academician and bibliothécaire du roi, was an art collector.
Lit.: Procès-verbaux
Paris, Remy, .XII.1772:
Deux Bustes de femmes en pastel d'après Fr. Boucher, par Merelle, sous verre, Bordure dorée [36 frs 14]
Le baron BIGOT DE MOROGUES (1776-1840), from Orléans, presented Coypel Autoportrait to the musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans, in 1825.
Lit.: Klinka-Ballesteros 2005
Martin BIRNBAUM (1878-1970), lawyer, violinist, translator, connoisseur, collector and art dealer; he advised Winthrop (q.v.) on his collection. He gave a Pillement naufrage to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1956.
Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de BIRON (1859-1939), of Paris, later Geneva, collector, particularly of French and Italian drawings; he also had a particular interest in frames. Son of Élie, vicomte de Gontaut (1817-1890), ambassadeur de France à Berlin in the 1870s; Biron's sister, Marie de Gontaut-Biron (1847- ) married, in 1876, Archambaud, 3e marquis de Talleyrand; his nephew Hélie, 7e duc de Talleyrand (1882-1968), inherited his uncle's collection of drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi, furniture and ceramics. Under Biron's tutellage, he too became a renowned connoisseur and artistic adviser to a number of wealthy collectors. A sale took place 34 years after his death.
Lit.: Seymour de Ricci 1914; Seligman 1961; J. Byam Shaw, "The Biron collection of Venetian eighteenth-century drawings at the Metropolitan Museum", Metropolitan Museum journal, iii, 1970, pp. 235-58; Donateurs 1989; Céline Lefranc, "Souvenirs du duc de Talleyrand", Connaissance des arts, 633, .XI.2005, pp. 68-73
Paris, Chevallier, 29.III.1900:
Lot 38: Fragonard, L'Amour de l'or
Paris, Georges Petit, 9-11.VI.1914:
Lot 37: La Tour, Mme Dorizon, préparation; Lot 38: La Tour, Dumont le romain, préparation; Lot 39: La Tour, Étude de mains; Lot 55: Roslin, duchesse de Choiseul
André-Gaspard Parfait Prunelé, comte de BIZEMONT (1752-1837), soldier, politician and amateur artist, pupil of Cochin. He founded the école de dessin d'Orléans with Desfriches, and in 1824 he established and became first conservateur of the musée in Orléans.
Lit.: Émile Davoust, Le comte de Bizemont, artiste-amateur orléannais, son œuvre et ses collections, Orléans, 1891; Lugt 128; Klinka-Ballesteros 2005
BLAISOT, Paris dealer in drawings and prints, active in Paris c.1820–1870. After his death the business was continued briefly by his son:
Lit.: Lugt 263
Paris, 22-23.XII.1890
Lots 30, 31: La Tour, inconnus
Charles BLANC (1813-1882), art historian.
La Tour, autoportrait [pastiche, (Uffizi)]
Émile BLOCH: owned a Lenoir pastel (Mme Bose) in 1927. An Arthur Bloch lent a Peronneau (Fontenelles) to the Bruxelles 1904 exhibition. A M. Bloch owned a Nanteuil (Condé), sold in 1905.
William Tilden BLODGETT ( -1875), one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Lit.: Robert W. de Forest, "William Tilden Blodgett", The Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin, i/3, .II.1906, pp. 37-42
Pastels: La Tour, Laideguive
Augustin BLONDEL DE GAGNY (1695-1776), intendant des menus-plaisirs du roi, owner of one of the most important private picture collections in Paris of his time, inherited by his son Barthélémy-Augustin Blondel d'Azincourt (1719-1794), also a collector, and an honorary member of the Paris and Marseille académies.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Inv. p.m., AN lvii, 529, 17.IX.1776; L. Clément de Ris, Les Amateurs d'autrefois, Paris, 1877, pp. 342-58; Bailey 1987; Grove 1996; Bailey 1999
Paris, Remy, 18.IV.1770 & seq.:
Lot 31: Deux Bustes de femmes, peints en pastel par M.Boucher; l'une vue de face, posée sur un oreiller; l'autre est une Dormeuse aussi sur oreiller [La Voluptueuse & La Dormeuse], 14 p. 6 x 11p. 6; 54 [34?] livres; Lot 32: Deux autres Bustes de jeunes Femmes en pastel, par le même; chaque morceau porte 11 pouces de haut sur 8 pouces de large. Vendu, 28 livres 1 sol; Remy pour M.de Bandeville Remy; Lot 63b: … & un autre dessein de deux têtes d'enfans, au pastel, par M. Natoire; Vendu, 8 livres, Remy
Paris, Remy, 10.XII.1776 - 22.I.1777:
Lot 33: Carriera, Une femme plus qu'à mi-corps, habillée richement à l'ancienne mode, elle a les mains gantées & tient un éventail [58 livres 1 sol; Legere]
Paris, Alexandre-Joseph Paillet, 10-27.II.1783.
Louis-Jean-André-Hubert van den BOGAERDE.
Brugge, Hauw, 17.X.1827:
Lot 2: [Anon.]: Quatre petits paysages, en pastel, dans des cadres ovales; Lot 4: [Anon.]: Quatre paysages, en pastel; Lot 5: [Anon.]: Quatre idem [Paysages], dito [en pastel]; Lot 6: [Anon.]: Deux idem [Paysages], dito [en pastel]
Julius BÖHLER (1860-1934), established a gallery in Munich (Briennerstraße 25), around 1880, later managed by his younger son Otto Alfons and grandson Julius Harry (1907-1979). His elder son Julius Wilhelm ( -1966) founded a firm with Fritz Steinmeyer in Luzern c.1920, later with branches in New York and Berlin.
M.-F. BOHLER.
Paris, Drouot, 23.II.1906, with introduction, Hippolyte Buffenoir:
Lot 11: Boze, jeune femme 1792; Lot 18: La Tour, Pommyer, préparation; Lot 27: Perronneau [Allais], Mlle La Roche; Lots 36, 37: Éc. fr., 2 inconnues
Nicolas-Francois-Jacques BOILEAU (1720-), Paris art dealer.
Lit.: Marandet 2003a
Jules BOILLY (1796-1874), peintre, son of Louis-Léopold Boilly.
Paris, 19-20.III.1869:
Lot 154: La Tour, Capucin
Symphorien-Casimir-Joseph BOITTELLE (1813-1897), sénateur, préfet de police de Paris 1858; in 1845 he married a cousin of Baron Haussmann.
Paris, Drouot, 24-25.IV.1866:
La Tour, Lot 71: Cupis; Lot 79: auto
Paris, Pillet, 10-11.I.1867:
Lot 112: La Tour, Cupis
Paris, Pillet, Haro, 2.IV.1874:
Lot 15: Ducreux, auto
Paris, Duchesne, 13.III.1891:
Lot 7: Ducreux, auto
Jean BONNA (1945- ), Swiss banker, bibliophile and collector of drawings from the 15th to the 20th centuries; two large collections were exhibited in 2006.
Lit.: Paris 2006d; Paris 2006e
Pastels: Barocci, jeune femme; Chardin, garçon; & jeune fille; Ducreux, inconnu; Éc. fr., inconnue
François-Armand d'Usson, marquis de BONNAC (1716-1778), soldier, diplomat, amateur artist, owner of one of the most important collections of sea shells of his time.
Dictionary, artists
[?BONNEMET]
Paris, Dufrancastel, 28-30.I.1772
Tableaux... peints tant sur toile, bois, que pastel:
Lot 37: Un Tableau oval peint par Mignard, représentant une femme [36 livres]
[Anon.] Lot 40: Deux portraits ovales, l'un représentant une Vestale voilée, & l'autre une Femme tenant une rose [40 livres]
Lot 41: Deux autres de même forme, représentant des Femmes tenant des chien & chat [40 livres 1 sol]
Lot 42: Deux autres, portraits de Femme, de forme quarrée, avec de petits chapeaux [24 livres 2 sols]
Lot 43: Quatre Tableaux de fruits. seize pouces de large sur treize de haut [30 livres]
Lot 44: Quatre pots de fleurs peints sur vélin [24 livres]
Lot 47: Un autre, de trente-trois pouces de haut, représentant un Vielleux [10 livres 10 sols]
Lot 48: Quatre petits Tableaux, de trois pouces & demi sur quatre pouces & demi, représentant des Paysages [11 livres]
Lot 49: Six Tableaux, de huit pouces de haut sur six de large, représentant des fruits, insectes & fleurs [9 livres 5 sols]
Louis-Marin BONNET (1736-1793), engraver.
Dictionary, artists
Paris, Pierre-Michel-Louis Blondel, François-Léandre Regnault Delalande, 7.XI.1793
Lot 46: Douze Pastels & Dessins, d'après la Rosalba, le Prince, &c.
Vicomte Fernand de BONNEVAL (1838-1911).
Pastels: Perronneau, femme
BONVALLET, Amboise, art dealer.
Edmond BORTHON (1825-1889), collector from Dijon.
Lit.: Chardin 1979; Catalogue des tableaux et objets d'art de la collection E. Borthon, Dijon, 1890, introduction H. Chabon.
No. 48: La Tour, femme; no. 81: Nattier, Grassin
Étienne BOUCHARDY (1797-1849), miniaturiste.
Vente p.m., Paris, 14.V.1850:
p. 3: Environ 20 pastels par La Tour et Sicardi
François BOUCHER (1703-1770), painter.
Dictionary, artists
Vente p.m.: Paris, 18.II.- 9.III.1771 [produced 98,829 livres in total]:
Boucher: Lot 355: Le buste d'une jeune fille, en pastel; celui d'un jeune homme, à la pierre noire, & au crayon blanc; une étude de trois figures à mi-corps, avec l'estampe qu'en gravé Demarteau. [50 livres 1 sol]
Lot 360: Un autre buste de femme, plus grand que le précédent, vu de profil & fait au pastel [80 livres 1 sol]
Lot 361: Boucher: Un buste & une tête de femme, l'une & l'autre vus de face, en pastel sur vélin [168 livres 1 sol]
Lot 365a: Boucher: Venus, figure debout, elle regarde deux tourterelles. Ce dessein plein d'agrément est à la sanguine & un peu de pastel sur papier bleu [144 livres 1 sol]
Claude BOUCOT ( –1699), avocat, receveur des domaines et octrois. His extensive collection of prints and drawings included a number of sheets in portfolios described simply as "pastel", by artists including Dumonstier, Champaigne, Porbus, Giuseppino etc. They are not catalogued in the Dictionary.
Lit.: Martin 1913
Charles-Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne, 5e duc de BOUILLON (1706-1771).
Dictionary, genealogy, La Tour d'Avergne
Paris, Remy, 1772 [dates n/k]:
Lot 49: [Anon.] Deux petits tableaux pastels representant des Nimphes de flore ornés de guirlandes de fleurs et d'un chapeau de paille sur la tête. 60 livres 2 sols
Louis de BOULLONGNE (1654-1733), premier peintre du roi 1725, secrétaire du roi, directeur de l'Académie royale. His son, Jean de Boullongne (c.1690-1769), contrôlleur général des finances, conseiller amateur de l'Académie royale de peinture 1734, possessed the two Rosabas that belonged to de Morville; they were the highlights of his collection, according to Dumesnil 1858, III, p. 369. His son, Jean-Nicolas de Boullongne, comte de Nogent-sur-Seine (1726-1787), maître des requettes, honoraire-associé libre 1760, honoraire amateur 1777 de l'Académie royale de peinture.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Procès-verbaux
Paris, Georges Bizet, Folliot, 8-12.V.1787; 19-24.XI.1787:
Lot 13: Carriera, 2 pendants [re-presented 2.V.1791; 6.I.1794]
Georges BOURGAREL, collector of XVIIIe drawings.
Paris, Drouot, Lair-Dubreil, 15-16.VI.1922:
Lot 84: Fragonard, L'Amour de l'or
Paris, Drouot, 13-15.XI.1922:
Lot 69: Bréhan, a/r Fragonard, Buste de vieillard à la tocque
Sir Francis BOURGEOIS (1756-1811), art dealer and collaborator with Noel Desenfans (1744-1807), who assembled a collection of over 180 pictures for Stanislaw August between 1790 and the king's abdication in 1795. Bourgeois's collection of some 370 pictures was eventually bequeathed to Dulwich College.
Lit.: Beresford 1998; G. A. Waterfield, in Houston 1999
Pastels: Bacciarelli, 2pstls
M. BOURLAT DE MONTREDON, amateur and collector.
Lit.: Lugt 248
Paris, Joullain fils, 16.III.-1.IV.1778:
Lot 28: Deux têtes de femmes d'après la Dlle. Rosalba; hauteur 12 pouces, largeur 10 pouces [20 livres 19 sols]
Denys Eyre BOWER (1905-1977), dealer and collector with a somewhat colourful private life. He acquired Chiddingstone Castle in
1956 and bequeathed it to the National Trust who refused the bequest; it is now owned by a private trust together with much of his
extensive collections of Japanese, Egypotian and 17th century English antiquities.
London, Christie's, 5.VI.2006, Lot 52: Wright, woman
Jean-Baptiste-Laurent BOYER DE FONSCOLOMBE (1716-1788), lawyer and collector.
Dictionary, genealogy
Paris, Le Brun, 18.I.1790 & seq.
Lot 224: Quatre morceaux, ... une Junon au pastel par Taraval.
Mlle Victoire Ursule Madeleine BOZE (1781-p.1866), daughter of the pastellist, she was also an artist; she left her father's autoportrait to the Louvre.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Hector Gustave BRAME (1866-1936), picture dealer, especially associated with Degas, of Brame & Lorenceau, at 68, boulevard Malesherbes, Paris 8e. According to Gimpel, he was "un original, qui ne montre ses tableaux qu'aux gens dont la figure lui plaît".
Lit.: Gimpel 1923; Donateurs 1989
Edward BRANDUS, New York: dealers in modern and old master pictures.
Lit.: "The Brandus Gallery", The art collector, 1898, ix/2, p. 22
New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 29-30.III.1905:
Lot 122: Ducruex, Marie-Antoinette
New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 12-14.III.1906:
Lot 31: La Tour, comtesse de Bermont
Mme J. BRASSEUR, de Lille: her large collection of miniatures, pictures, ceramics, objets d'art etc. was dispersed in two sales (1919, 1920), followed by a posthumous sale in 1928.
Paris, Drouot, Lair-Dubreuil, Desvouges, 13.III.1920:
Lot 13: Duplessis, Gluck
Vente succession, Paris, Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreuil, 1.VI.1928:
Lot 3: Boucher, Le départ
Anne-Marie de BRAUWERE.
Brugge, 20.IX.1831:
Lot 25: [Anon.:] Deux pastels
Bihi-Amalric, comte de BRÉHAN (1734-c.1810sp), maître de camp aux dragons, chambellan du roi Stanislas 1757, honoraire-associé libre 1781, honoraire amateur 1787 de l'Académie royale de peinture; brother of the amateur pastellist, marquis de Bréhan (q.v.).
Lit.: Procès-verbaux
Jacques-Laure Le Tonnelier, bailli de BRETEUIL (1722-1785), amateur and collector; subject of a pastel by La Tour. His first collection was sold in Paris, 9–20.VI.1760 to fund the expenses of his embassy to the Vatican 1758–77, but he formed a second collection in Rome.
Lit.: Michel 2008, p. 145
Pastels: Carriera
BRETONVILLE:
Paris, 5-7.II.1872:
Lot 18: La Tour, inconnu
H. Henri BREUIL, amateur dijonnais: 1972 bequests of XVIIIe pictures to the musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, and of manuscripts, drawings, prints and war-time photographs to the bibliothèque de Dijon.
Lit.: Dijon 1973
Pastels: Mme Gault de Saint-Germain, jeune femme
Gaston BRIÈRE (1871-1962) taught at the École du Louvre 1911-38, and was conservateur au musée de Versailles 1933-38 in succession to Pierre de Nolhac and André Pératé. During the war, he was in charge of the national museum depositary at the château de Brissac. His wife (8 1925), Clotilde Brière-Misme (1889-1970), worked at the bibliothèque Jacques Doucet to which she left an important bequest in the 1960s. Brière left two pastels by Bornet to the Louvre.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989; Claire Bonnotte, Les Nouvelles de l'INHA, 23, .XI.2005
Alexandre-Théodore BRONGNIART (1739-1813), an important architect, was also an art collector. His connections with pastellists included Voiriot and Vigée Le Brun.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Paris 1986
Paris, Boileau, Paillet, 22.III.1792 & seq.:
Greuze
Lot 30: Une autre belle Tête peinte au pastel, étude pour son sujet de la cruche cassée. Haut. 17 p. larg.13
Lot 31: Une autre Etude aussi buste de Femme, peinte au pastel, caractérisant la volupté. Haut. 17 p. larg 13. Ces deux derniers morceaux proviennent de la grande vente de M. Randon de Boisset. Voyez le catalogue
Fragonard
Lot 35: Une tête de jeune Femme couronnée de fleurs, très-belle Etude faite au pastel. Haut. 24. p. larg. 20
Lot 36: Une belle autre tête de Vieille Femme, aussi peinte au pastel. Haut. 14 p. larg. 20
Beaudoin [Baudouin] - [Dessins sous Verres.]
Lot 88: Une esquisse dessinée mêlée de pastel, représentant la mort de Virginie. Haut 15 p., larg. 12
François-Louis BROSSARD DE BEAULIEU (1727-1810), painter and father of the portraitist Marie-Renée-Geneviève (q.v.) who bought the three anonymous pastels in his posthumous sale.
Paris, Jean-Ferdinand Olivier, 15.IX.1810:
Lot 69: [Anon.] Trois tableaux pastels et autres art [6 frs 95; Brossard de Beaulieu]
BROSSAYS.
Paris, 21-23.III.1839:
Lot 75: La Tour, femme allaitant son enfant [Fr75]
Heinrich Reichsgraf von BRÜHL (1700-1763), kursächsische Premierminister; amassed a vast collection of pictures, sculpture, porcelain, natural history specimens and books. After his death Catherine II aquired his collection of works on paper - some 1076 drawings and 31,569 prints - together with some 600 of his paintings.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Tobias Burg, "Two works by Chardin in the collection of Count Heinrich von Brühl", Burlington magazine, cl, .VIII.2008, pp. 529-33
Dominique-Vivant, baron BRUNET-DENON (1779-1846), nephew and heir of baron Vivant Denon (v. Dictionary, artists).
Lit.: Lugt 779
Vente p.m., Paris, 2-15.II.1846:
Lot 181: Boucher, Tête de jeune fille gracieusement couchée sur un oreiller, dessin à plusieurs crayons mêlés de pastel; Lot 409: La Tour, femme
Alberto BRUNI TEDESCHI (1915-1996), industrialist and composer, Castello di Castagneto Po.
London, Sotheby's, 21.III.2007:
Lot 62: Nogari, 2 pendants
Galerie Charles BRUNNER, 11, rue Royale, Paris: dealers who organised the Paris 1911 exhibition of English pastellists. They handled several pastels by John Russell.
M. BRUNO DE CASTEL, de l'Académie de peinture de Toulouse, lent pastels by Despax to the Salon de Toulouse in 1752. These reappeared in his posthumous sale in 1783.
Paris, 1783:
Lots 20-21: Un portrait au Pastel, d'après Santerre, par M. Despax.
Jan de BRUIJN (1681-1742), art dealer in Amsterdam, the subject of a pastel by Troost, collected a number of his genre scenes, which passed to Jan Jacob de Bruyn.
Vente p.m.: Amsterdam, van der Schley, 12.IX.1798
L.-M. BRUZARD, économe du collége Louis le Grand, author of a catalogue of the lithographs of Horace Vernet (1826). There were some 330 lots of drawings in his posthumous sale, as well as more than 12,000 lithographs.
Lit.: Laran, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Paris, 1930-
Vente p.m., Paris, Ridel, 23-26.IV.1839:
Lot 58: Chardin, autoportraits [R&T 194, 197, 198]; Lot 244: Prud'hon, Mayer
Jacques-Jean-Baptiste Desmier d'Archiac, comte de BRYAS (1851-1915): born to an established family, his mother was a Vogüé, in 1881 he married Ida de Gramont (1859-1927).
Paris Georges Petit, 4-6.IV.1898:
Lot 43: Danloux, jeune fille
Paris, Drouot, Chevallier, Féral, Mannheim, 6.II.1905:
Lot 16: La Tour, inconnu [Jullienne]; Lot 17: Perronneau, ?La marquise d'Anglure
Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS (1797-1861)
Stowe, Christie's, 15.VIII.-30.IX.1848:
12.IX.1848:
GALLERIES
Lot 24: Mary Queen of Scots [?Hoare], crayons, 5½ gns, with another; A. Robertson
Lot 30: Sir Philip Sydney; and Cardinal Fleury, in crayons 6 gns; Lister. The cardinal is by Robert Pine and bears date 1740
CHANDOS BEDROOM
Lot 96 Two female heads, crayons, 8 gns; The Misses Yardley
Lot 97 Venus, crayons (Russell), 5 ½ gns; T. Grissell, Esq.
Lot 100 The girl with a muff, crayons, a/r Reynolds, £4/10/-; T. Grissell, Esq. This drawing is by Mary Marchioness of Buckingham
ADDENDA
A2 The prodigal son, crayons; a small head; and Cleopatra (S. Rosa, a/r), 5 ½ gns; Town and Emanuel
23.IX.1848:
BUCKINGHAM ROOMS
Lot 179 William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, crayons, 14 gns (A. Robertson)
Lot 180 Colonel Speed, killed at the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom, 1746, £3/5/-; T. Grissell
Lot 192: Elizabeth Wyndham, self-portrait, crayons, £1/8/-; Agent
Lot 232a Three portraits, crayons, 13 gns; James Parker
Alfred BUCKLEY (1829-1900), JP, DL, of New Hall, Salisbury, grandson of the 3rd Earl of Radnor; he inherited
the collections of John Thomas Batt ( –1831) at New Hall, Wiltshire, from his father, Edward P. Buckley, Batt's cousin.
Sale p.m., London, 4.V.1901:
Pastels: La Tour, Mme du Barry; Louis XVI
BUJON, antiquaire.
Rouen, 19.II.1866:
Lot 147: La Tour, homme et femme
Jules BURAT (1807-1885), professeur à l'École des arts et métiers, journaliste and collector. His nephew Louis Burat ( -1937) was an agent de change, in Paris; his collection of silver was left to the musée des Arts décoraitfs, while his remaining collections of pictures, sculpture, bronzes and XVIIIe furniture built up in the early 1900s were sold in 1937 under the name of Mme Louis Burat. Among the old master pictures were paintings by Nattier, de Troy, Vigée Le Brun and a Fragonard now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A pastel said to be of La Tour's mother belonged to Mme Burat in 1904.
Lit.: Chardin 1979
Vente p.m., Paris, Georges Petit, 28-29.IV.1885:
Lot 115: La Tour, auto
Mme Louis Burat; Paris, Charpentier, 17.VI.1937:
Lot 2: Coypel, dame
Other pastels: La Tour, Mme de La Tour
Sir Francis BURDETT (1770-1844) married one of the banker Thomas Coutts's daughters. One of their daughters, Angela Georgina (1814-1906sp) was created Baroness Burdett-Coutts s.j.; she married Rt Hon. William Bartlett (1854-1921) in 1881. His sale took place in 1922.
Sale p.m., London, 4-5.V.1922:
Lot 10: La Tour, Rousseau; J. R. Smith, Burdett
Other pastels: Hamilton, Barre
Philippe BURTY (1830-1890), collector, art historian, proponent of Japanese art, critic for the Gazette des Beaux-Arts from 1859, editor of the Correspondance of Delacroix, 1878; father-in-law of the porcelain manufacturer Charles Haviland. His novel, Grave Imprudence, appeared in 1880, and has certain similarities with the Goncourts' Manette Salomon.
Lit.: Maurice Tourneux, "Philippe Burty", Gazette des beaux-arts, 1907, xxxvii, pp. 388-402; Jules Renard, Journal; Lugt 2071; Gabriel P. Weisberg, "Philippe Burty: a notable critic of the nineteenth century", Apollo, xci, 1970, pp. 296-300; Chardin 1979; Donateurs 1989; Grove
Paris, Delestre, 2-3.III.1891:
Lot 105: La Tour, inconnu
Andrea BUSIRI VICI (1903-1989), Italian art deco architect, owned a pastel by Voiriot (homme).
Charles BUTLER (1821-1921), of Warren Wood, Hatfield, art collector and bibliophile.
Sale p.m., London, Christie's, 7.VII.1911:
Read, Miss Beatson
Mme V. B...
Paris, 21-22.VI.1866:
Lot 24: La Tour, inconnue
Philippe CAFFIERI (1714-1774), sculpteur.
Lit.: Chardin 1979
Vente p.m., Paris, Chariot, Joullain, 10-17.X.1775:
Lot 63 [part]: Jésus-Christ élevé en croix, grande composition à la plume & à l'encre de la Chine, mêlés de bistre & de pastel, par Mettay [6 livres 1 sol for whole lot; Alliette]
Le comte Louis CAHEN D'ANVERS (1837-1922), banquier, married Louise de Morpurgo (1845-1926), mistress of Charles Ephrussi (q.v.); one of their daughters, Irène (1872-1963), married comte Moïse de Camondo in 1891; another, Alice (1876-1965), married General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend (1861- ), presumably the source of Cahen d'Anvers's Gardner lent to the Cent pastels exhibition, Paris 1908a.
Paul CAILLEUX (1884-1964), founded the firm of Paris art dealers in 1912. From the beginning the focus was on the French XVIIIe. An exhibition, Choix de pastels français du xviiie siècle, was held from the tiny premises in the rue Laffitte in 1923. That year the firm moved to 136 faubourg Saint-Honoré where it remained for more than 75 years. Paul's son Jean and granddaughter Marianne Roland Michel continued the business and also published widely on the French eighteenth century. Jean and his sister Denise Mégret donated a Ducreux pastel to the Louvre in 1949.
Lit.: Cailleux 1912-1962, album jubilaire, préface de Jean Cailleux; Donateurs 1989
Giovanni Battista CALANDRUCCI, painter, nephew of Giacinto. A pastel after Michelangelo was in his estate inventory (Rome, 22.X.1737).
Lit.: Getty provenance index
Hans M. CALMANN (1899-1982), London dealer in drawings. A Troost pastel in now in the British Museum.
Lit.: The Times obituary, 8.V.1982
Charles-François, marquis de CALVIÈRE (1693-1777), lieutenant général des armées du roi, honoraire-associé libre 1747, honoraire amateur 1754 de l'Académie royale de peinture. His collection of French and Italian drawings commenced in 1741, when he acquired several sheets at the Crozat sale. A major sale, including 495 drawings, took place two years after his death to settle his enormous debts. A pastel portrait by Coypel is known only from a miniature copy.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Journal du marquis de Calvière, MS 2370; Procès-verbaux; Les Collectionneurs de dessins au 18ème siècle, symposium, Christie's, Paris, on 15.XII.2003; Odile Cavalier, "The Marquis de Calvière and the abortive publicaton of Antiquités de la France méridionale", Master drawings, xlv/1, 2007
Paris, Joullain, Chariot, 5-20.V.1779, Lot 383: Aubert, peintre assis
Paris, Christie's, 17.XII.2003, Lot 54: Caffieri, Causeur
Francisco CAMBÓ y Batlle (1876-1947) trained as a lawyer in Barcelona before pursuing a career as a financier. By the 1920s he had built an immense fortune in cork and hydroelectric power. His political writings were influential during the rise of fascism in Spain. He was also a supporter of a degree of Catalan autonomy. He made important donations to the Prado and to the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, including his La Tour pastel.
Pastels: La Tour, Laideguive
G. CAMENTRON, art dealer, 43 rue Laffitte, Paris: lent Vigée Le Brun pastel (Alexander Ier) to the Paris 1908b exhibition.
Comte Isaac de CAMONDO (1851-1911), banker and collector, whose collection, particularly rich in late 19th century painting, was donated to the Louvre. His cousin, comte Moïse (1860-1935) was head of the family bank, and also a collector; he built the museum named in memory of his son Nissim, killed in action in 1917.
Lit.: Arsène Alexandre, "La collection de M. le comte de Camondo", in Les Arts,.XI.1908, no. 83, p. 11; Grove 1996; Donateurs 1989; Rosenberg 2007
Dr CAMUS: owned pastels by Hall (Robert) and La Tour (homme) in 1883.
Lady CAPEL CURE, née Muriel Dixwell-Oxenden (1869-1927), of 28 Lancaster Gate, London; translator. In 1889 she married Edward Henry Capel Cure (1866-1923), a diplomat in Rome who was awarded the order of SS Maurizio & Lazzaro. Both the Oxenden and Capel Cure families owned picture collections, and she inherited the collection of her brother Basil Oxenden (q.v.).
London, Christie's, 20.XI.1931:
Lot 1: Ashfield, Sir James & Lady Arabella Oxenden; Lot 108: Russell, Lady Isabel Erskine
Francesco CAPRARA, Bologna. His estate inventory (20.III.1781) included several pastels by Pavona.
Yves CARLIER DE FONTOBBIA (1911-1984) donated a large collection of pastels, including a Coypel autoportrait, to the musée
Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin (v. Collections for list) in 1983. An amateur devoted to the XVIIIe, he founded a cultural review
(L'Insurgé), a political Parti humaniste, which was crushed in the 1958 elections, and a charity for illegitimate children. La Tour
himself had provided for the unmarried mothers of Saint-Quentin and was familiar with lost causes.
Lit.: Christine Debrie, Catalogue de la Donation Carlier de Fontobbia, Saint-Quentin, 1985
Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron CARLINGFORD, later Baron Clermont (1823-1898), 4th husband of Frances, Countess Waldegrave. A large collection of Gardner pastels descended to his granddaughter Anne Eliza Dixon; they were then sold to Lord Carlingford and in turn to Lady Strachey, q.v.
CAROLINE LUISE Markgräfin von Baden (1723-1783), amateur pastellist and collector.
Dictionary, artists
Jules CARON, probably the painter who exhibited at the Salons in the third quarter of the 19th century.
Vente p.m., Paris, Rain, Georges, 6.IV.1881:
Pastels: Coypel (2)
CARPENTIER, architecte du roi.
Vente p.m., Paris, Feuillet, 14.III.1774 & seq.:
Têtes d'homme et de femme, pastels d'après Boucher
Francis Culling CARR-GOMM, né Carr ( -1909), of the Madras civil service and Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, married the niece of Field-Marshal Gomm, and assumed the additional name by royal licence in 1878. He edited Gomm's letters and wrote a book about Rotherhithe Manor, which his wife inherited from her uncle. He is best known in his role as chairman of the London Hospital, when he launched an appeal for funds for Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man".
Lit.: "Parishes: Rotherhithe", A history of the county of Surrey, iv, 1912, pp. 83-92
Pastels: Hoare, 2 ladies; Russell, Philip & Martha Goldsworthy
Joseph-Auguste CARRIER (1800-1875), miniaturist and portrait painter, and a prolific collector.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Paris, Bonnefons, 9-10.III.1846:
Lots 188, 191-199: La Tour, inconnus
Paris, 6-7.IV.1868:
Lot 98: La Tour, La Pouplinière; Lot 99: La Tour, auto; Lots 100-109: La Tour, inconnus; others
Paris, 5.V.1875:
Lot 9: La Tour, inconnue
David Graham CARRITT (1927-1982), expert and dealer in old master pictures; director of Artemis. A pastel by Perronneau (Chassaing) is now in the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Lit.: dictionaryofarthistorians.org
William CARTWRIGHT (1606-1686), actor and collector, who owned six paintings by Greenhill as well as an album of drawings and pastels.
Lit.: Beresford 1998; London 1987d
Mme CARTWRIGHT: lent a Downman pastel to the Paris 1911 exhibition.
Paul CASIMIR-PÉRIER (1812-1897), armateur, sénateur de la Seine-Inférieure, son of Casimir Perier (1777-1832), the French statesman and regent of the Banque de France. He owned a version of Ducreux's femme âgée.
Vente p.m., Paris, Chevallier, 26.IV.1898
Walter Richard CASSELS (1826-1907), author of an anti-religious tract entitled Supernatural religion which attracted much attention when it appeared anonymously in 1874; he was also a poet and art collector.
Sale p.m., London, Christie's, 25.VII.1907:
Lot 46: La Tour, inconnue
Paul CASSIRER (1871-1926), Berlin art dealer, writer and publisher, specialising in Van Gogh, Cézanne and the artists of the Berlin Secession. The firm of Paul Cassirer & Hugo Helbing continued: two months after Cassirer's suicide it conducted an important sale of pictures from Graf von Brühl and the Saxon royal collections.
CASTELLANE. The Castellane collection is not published, but a photograph of the Salon bleu in the hôtel de Castries in the catalogue of Diane de Castellane's sale of furniture (Monaco, Christie's, 2.VII.1995) shows a Perronneau pastel (not in the sale).
H. E. ten CATE (1868-1955), descendant of the Hendrik ten Cate (1743- ) who founded a textile factory at Almelo, of which H. E. ten Cate was director. His art collection, assembled in the period 1920-40, encompassed some 300 works, mainly of the Golden Age and late 19th century.
Lit.: Dirk Hannema, Catalogue of the H. E. ten Cate collection, Rotterdam, 1955
London, Sotheby's, 25.II.1959
Pastels: Boucher, Mme de Pompadour; La Tour, ?Mlle Fel
Tsaritsa CATHERINE II (1729-1796). Her extensive collections and Diderot's role in enlarging it are discussed in numerous sources.
Dictionary, genealogy, Russia
Lit.: Chardin 1979; Grove 1996
Claude-Philippe CAYEUX (1688–1769), sculpteur
Vente p.m., Paris, 11–23.XII.1769:
Lot 199: Boucher, Femme, presque couchée, au pastel, avec un dessin à la sanguine [11 livres, Le Brun]
Tableaux en Pastel, sur papier bleu:
Lot 365: Trémolières, Un sujet allégorique, richement composé; dessein aux trois crayons & un peu de pastel, 15 pouces sur 25 pouces [15 livres]
Lot 389: Natoire, La sainte Vierge avec l'Enfant Jesus, 18 pouces sur 11 pouces 6 [7 livres 19 sols]
Lot 390: Trémolières, Deux bustes de femmes en regard, 12 pouces sur 10 pouces [36 livres]
Lot 391: Pierre, Tête de vieillard; tête d'un turc, au pastel [17 livres; Cayeux]
Anne-Claude-Philippe, comte de CAYLUS (1692-1765), honoraire amateur de l'Académie royale de peinture 1731, celebrated connoisseur, amateur engraver, antiquarian and author. In 1759 he inherited the estates of his uncle Claude-Abraham, but he seems not to have used the title of duc de Caylus, which passed in turn to a cousin, Achille-Joseph-Robert, marquis de Lignerac ( -1783). The pastels in the 1773 sale presumably came from the comte de Caylus.
Dictionary, genealogy, Tubières
Lit.: Guiffrey 1884, p. 372; Chatelus 1991, pp. 307ff; Grove 1996; Catalogue du cabinet du duc de Caylus, Paris, 1772; Hattori 2007
Paris, Remy, 19.IV.1773 & seq.:
Lots 47, 48 attr. La Tour; Lot 49: Une femme couchée dans un bosquet, peint par Merelle, pastel, hauteur 16 pouces 6 lignes, largeur 13 pouces 6 lignes, 61 livres 1 sol; Lot 49a: Vénus & l'Amour, d'après Boucher hauteur 9 pouces, largeur 11: par Merelle, 24 livres 1 sol; Lot 50: [Anon.]: Deux bustes de femmes agréables, de forme ovale. hauteur 15 pouces, largeur 12, 30 livres
Inv. p.m. 10.X.1765:
Dans la chambre à coucher. Item (no. 23): Huit bustes et têtes de femmes, pstl ou crayon, par Carle Van Loo, Trémolières, Pierre et autres.
François-Wilbrod CHABROL (1835-1919), architect, pupil of Hippolyte Le Bas; appointed diocesan architect to Tulle in 1875; architecte to the Gobelins and Palais-Royal; author of
the Histoire et description du Palais Royal, 1883.
Lit.: Saur; DBF
Pastels: Vigée Le Brun, Beaujon
Gustav CHAIX D'EST-ANGE (1863-1923), author of a major but unfinished genealogical reference work.
Paris, 11.XII.1934:
Lot 26: La Tour, comte de Nogent [Valade, Lamoignon]
Arthur Melville CHAMPERNOWNE (1871-1946), sold a collection of drawings to the British Museum 1910-11, including a sheet
attributed to Rosalba [Italian sch.].
Lit.: Lugt 153
Antoine-Louis-Léon, comte de CHAMPFEU (1848- ), a naval captain, married (in 1893) Brigitte Poissalolle de Nanteuil de la Norville,
a relation of Albin Chalandon (1809-1885), famous collector from Lyon and father of the great benefactor of the Louvre. The comtesse de
Champfeu lived at 42 rue de Bourgogne, Paris when she lent two pastels to the Paris 1927a exhibtion.
Pastels: Mme Roslin, Lemonnier; Éc. fr., Homme jouant de la viole
CHANLAIRE, ancien administrateur des Eaux et Forêts.
Paris, 2-4.IV.1860:
Lot 167: La Tour, inconnus
Chanler, v. Laughlin
La marquise de CHAPONAY, née Reynaud de Bologne, granddaughter of Marc-René, marquis d'Argenson (1771-1842); married Antonin-François-Louis de Chaponay (1816-1879) in 1850; her son married one of the daughters of Henri Schneider (her sisters included the comtesse de Ganay and the marquise de Juigné). The marquise owned a La Tour pastel (Mlle Gaussin) in 1885.
Antoine-Pierre de CHAUMONT, marquis de La Galaizière (1727-1812), intendant, 56 rue de Varenne, Paris; his collection was seized during the Revolution (saisie d'émigré, 23 nivôse an II) and included a La Tour (Orry).
Dictionary, genealogy Chaumont
Dr Charles CHAUNCY (1709–1777), physician and antiquary, FRS; collector of paintings, prints, coins and books.
Pastels: Carriera, Callisto
Georges CHENARD-HUCHÉ (1864-1937), peintre, inherited a Perronneau (femme).
Charles-Philippe, marquis de CHENNEVIÈRES-POINTEL (1820-1899), art historian: Trained as a lawyer, he worked as a museum administrator from 1846. He was appointed assistant curator at the Louvre in 1857, and was directeur des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1873-78. He founded the Archives de l'art français. His memoirs are of interest.
Lit.: Chennevières 1979; Grove
Amsterdam, 20-21.XI.1882.
Paris, Drouot, 5-6.V.1898:
Lot ?: Carriera, jeune fille à la colombe; Lot 55: Frédou, Portail; Lot ?: Natoire, La Musique
Paris, Drouot, 4-7.IV.1900:
Lot 24: Biard, jeune femme; Lot 512: Vivien, Churbayer
Jean-Michel CHEVOTET (1698-1772), architecte. A modest art collection was sold after his death, realising 5000 livres; the Perronneau portraits are not recorded.
Vente p.m., Paris, rue Bethisy, Basan, 18.III.1773 & seq.
Cardinale Flavio CHIGI (1711-1771) owned Giulio Romano's pastel self-portrait (now in the Uffizi). His inventory (Rome, 1.V.1692) included "pastels" by Mola.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Getty provenance index
Claude CHIQUET DE CHAMP-RENARD, secrétaire du roi.
Vente p.m.: Paris, 14.III.1768 & seq.:
Lot 115: Léda, étude au Pastel. Vue du Pont d'Auxerre, dessiné à la plume, par J. B. M. Pierre. [Retiré par la famille];
Lot 120: [Ecole d'Italie]: Deux Têtes au Pastel, l'une l'Enfant Jesus, l'autre Saint Jean-Baptiste, d'après la Sainte Famille de Raphaël; Tableau du Palais Royal, gravé par Poilly [1 livres 16 sols; Joullain]
Lot 147: [Anon.]: La Comtesse de Feuquieres coëffée en jeune Grecque, dessinée au pastel [1 livres 11 sols]
Étienne-François, duc de CHOISEUL (1719-1785), soldier, ambassador and statesman, was also a major art collector. His acquisitions started before his marriage in 1750 to the heiress of the Crozat fortune, but it was during the period 1758-70 after his return to Paris that most of his purchases were made, at public sales (e.g. Jullienne, 1767) and privately. The collection was dispersed after his disgrace. His cousin, the comte de Choiseul-Gouffier, auteur du Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce, was an honoraire-associé libre de l'Académie royale 1782. A number of pastel portraits were made of Choiseul and his family - Roslin's pastel of his sister Béatrice de Gramont is visible in the famous Choiseul box, but none is listed in the 1772 sale.
Lit.: Grove 1996
Choiseul: Paris, Hôtel de Choiseul, 6-10.IV.1772
César-Gabriel de Choiseul, duc de CHOISEUL-PRASLIN (1712-1785), a brilliant soldier, was appointed ambassador to Vienna by his cousin, and in 1761 became ministre des Affairs étrangères. His collection passed to his son Renaud-César-Louis de Choiseul, 2e duc de Praslin (1735-1791), menin du Dauphin, also a diplomat, and was sold during the Revolution.
Paris, Boileau, Paillet, 18-25.II.1793:
Rosalba Carriera
Lot 21:: Le Portrait de cette célèbre Artiste peint par elle-même. Elle est représentée de trois quarts, coëffée de cheveux blonds, tenant une colombe sur son sein. Nous regardons ce morceau comme une des Etudes de la première manière la Rosa Alba, qui a fini par s'en tenir au genre du Pastel, dans lequel elle a excellé. sur toile, Haut. 26 p. Larg. 20 [73 livres 1 sol; Christiaan Everhard Vaillant]
Lot 22: Le Buste d'une belle femme, représentée de face, la poitrine découverte, tenant dans sa main droite un papier de musique; elle est coëffée de cheveux bruns naturellement bouclés, dans lesquels sont ajustées quelques fleurs. Ce beau morceau, peint au pastel, offre une des productions distinguées de cette grande Artiste & de son meilleur tems. Haut. 17 p. Larg. 13. Sous glace [100 livres; Étienne Delessert]
Lot 23: Deux autres Bustes offrant encore de belles Etudes, au pastel, par cette Artiste. L'un représente une jolie femme dans un costume galant pour la bal; l'autre un jeune homme coëffé de cheveux blonds naturellement bouclés. Haut. 13 p. 6 lig. Larg. 10 p. 6 lig. [Lot divided: 1000 [?100] livres, Paillet/1000 [?100] livres]
Isidore-Fernand Chevreau, baron de CHRISTIANI (1857-1928): bequeathed some 21 pictires to the Louvre, including a pastel by Voiriot (homme).
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Hugues CITROËN (1873-1953), brother of the André Citroën who founded the automobile business. Together with the son of the composer Bizet he founded the Banque automobile, one of the earliest institutions to provide credit for car purchase.
Pastels: Drouais [Loir], l'enfant au bourdon
The CLARENDON GALLERY, London: held an important exhibition of pastels in 1986 (v. London 1986).
Anthony Morris CLARK (1823-1976), art historian specialising in Roman baroque painting; curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His bequest to the Philadelphia Museum of Art included a pastel by Trevisani (Albani).
Lit.: Philadelphia 1980; dictionaryofarthistorians.com
CLEMENS AUGUST von Bayern Kurfürst u. Erzbischof von Köln (1700-1761).
Dictionary, genealogy, Bayern
Bonn, 14.V.1764 et seq.:
Rosalba Carriera
Lots 128-131: Die Vier jahrs Zeiten halbe figuren Von Rosalba Carera. [252 Rthl; Neveu]
Paris, Hôtel d'Aligre, Boileau & Joullain, 10.XII.1764:
Rosa Alba [Carriera]
Lot 4: Le Printemps, l'Eté, l'Automne & l'Hyver, représentés sous les figures de jeunes Filles, ornées de fleurs & de fruits pour les trois premières Saisons, & la quatriéme vêtue d'un manteau rouge, doublé d'hermine. Ces quatre précieux Tableaux ont été peints au pastel par la célebre Rosa Alba, pour Feu S. A. E. de Cologne, pastel, vingt-deux pouces de haut sur dix sept de large
Lot 5: Son portrait peint au pastel, par elle-même, vûe de trois quarts avec deux mains. Elle est représentée peignant sur son chevalet un portrait d'homme, & tenant son appui-main, sa palette & ses pinceaux. elle est coëffée en cheveux, vêtue de bleu, & décorée d'une chaîne d'or. S. A. E. a voulu joindre le portrait ce cette célebre Artiste aux Ouvrages qu'il possédoit, pastel, vingt-sept pouces de haut sur vingt-un pouces & demi de large
Lot 6: Un autre portrait de femme, vûe de face, coëffée en cheveux: elle tient de la main droite un porte-crayon, & de la gauche une feuille de papier gris, sur laquelle est peint au pastel le portrait d'une jeune fille; elle est appuyée sur une table où sont répandus quelques pastels. Même grandeur que le précédent
Aimé-François-Philibert, duc de CLERMONT-TONNERRE (1871-1940), château de Glisolles, Eure.
Lit.: Gimpel 1923
[M. de X***] Paris, Drouot, Petit, 9.III.1923:
Lot 11: Rosalba, jeune femme à la colombe; Lot 12. Éc. fr. du xviie, ?Mme de Sévigné; Lot 13: Éc. fr. du xviie, ?Malebranche; Lots 14, 15: Éc. fr. du xviiie, 2 bustes de jeunes femmes; Lot 16: La Tour, Mme de Rieux; Lots 17-19: atelier de Nattier, Mme de Chateauroux; Mme de Flavacourt; Mme de Vintmille; Lot 20: Jean Restout, ?Roslin; Lot 21: Restout, attr., jeune femme en buste
Eugène CLICQUOT (1812-1885), négociant en vins, membre de la Société des bibliophiles de Reims.
Vente p.m., Reims, 10-15.VII.1893:
Lot 52: genre de La Tour, femme
Sir Edward Feetham COATES, 1st Bt (1853-1921) of Helperby Hall, Yorkshire; a stockbroker; formed a large collection of English pastels, some from Lady Strachey's collection (acquired from dealers), many sold in 1922. He was succeeded by his son, Sir Clive Milnes-Coates, 2nd Bt (1879-1971), who married a daughter of the Marquess of Crewe in 1906 and added her name in 1946. The pastels in his collection were presumably acquired by Sir Edward. Three were on loan to the Bowes Museum in 1972.
London, Sotheby, 22.VI.1922.
Other pastels: Gardner, Robson; 2 ladies; Hamilton, man
Johann Karl Philipp Graf von COBENZL (1712-1770), ministre plénipotentiaire d'Autriche à Bruxelles 1753-70, member of the Belgian
academy of sciences. A number of pastels are now in the Hermitage, some or all acquired through prince Galitzin. Other Cobenzl portraits descended to
the Coronini family and are now in the Palazzo Coronini Cronberg, Gorizia.
Dictionary, genealogy
Pastels: Mellan, Mme Habert de Montmort; jeune femme; Therbusch, femme; Vouet, Strozzi
Sir Cyril Stephen COBB (1861-1938), lawyer and politician.
Pastels: Russell, Mrs Barber
Ernest COGNACQ (1839-1928) and Louise Jay (1838-1925), founders of the museum in Paris; head of the Samaritaine retailing business, in which he was succeded by Gabriel Cognacq (1880-1951), collector; membre de l'Académie des beaux-arts.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Vente p.m.: Paris, Drouot, Bellier, Ader & Thullier, 11-13.VI.1952:
Lot 59: La Tour, ?d'Alembert [B&W 600]; Lot 60: La Tour, jeune femme [B&W 599]; Lot 61: Éc. de La Tour, femme; Lot 62: La Tour, Pommyer
Louis-Joseph-Madeleine COLLETTE DE BAUDICOUR (1741-1816), avocat au parlement de Paris, maire de Paris XIIe; and his son, André-Prosper Collette de Baudicour (1788-1872), wealthy amateur and author of Le Peintre-graveur français continué, continuing Robert-Dumesnil; pupil of Boucher's pupil Lelu, who, in 1861 identified Boucher's daughters as the subjects of two pastels. Some records confuse the two.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Pastels: Boucher, Mmes Baudouin, Deshays; Bréhan, acteur & actrice; Éc. fr., Saint-Florentin
Charles Henry COLLINS BAKER (1880-1959), Keeper of the National Gallery, 1914-32; Surveyor of the King's Pictures 1928-34.
Pastels: Tilson, Lady 1683
P & D COLNAGHI, London fine art dealers. The origin of the firm goes back to 1757 when the pyrotechnist Giovanni
Battista Torre founded a cabinet de physique expérimentale in Paris in 1757, with a branch in Pall Mall, London, from 1767. Paul
Colnaghi was employed from around 1783; his sons Martin and Dominic joined around 1810. In 1894 it took over the firm of Gutekunst and Deprez,
and Colnaghi was subsequently run by Otto Gutekunst after the retirement of Edmund Deprez (1851–1915).
v.q. Lenoir
Filippo II COLONNA, 9. duca di Paliano (1663-1714), gran connestabile del regno di Napoli
Dictionary, genealogy
Inv. Rome, 15.XII.1714 - 26.II.1716
Pastels: Barocci; Duquesnoy; Reni; Rubens
Ernest Edward COOK (1865-1955): grandson of the travel agent Thomas Cook, he used his wealth to found the Ernest Cook Trust dedicated to the preservation of English coutry houses. He owned pastels by Russell (Godbold; Love songs and matches; Age of bliss).
Louis-François de Bourbon, prince de CONTI (1717-1776).
Dictionary, genealogy, France
Lit.: L'Isle-Adam 2000
Paris, Remy, 8.IV.-6.VI.1777:
Carriera
Lot 130: Le buste d'une jolie femme vénitienne ayant sur la tête un petit chapeau orné de fleurs, & tenant de la main droite un masque noir. ce beau morceau peint en pastel, porte 13 pouces de haut, sur 11 pouces de large: il vient du cabinet de M. Mariette, no.5 du catalogue
Lot 131: Le buste d'un jeune homme, la tête nue & des plus agréable, le col de sa chemise déboutonné. Ce morceau est aussi précieux & de même grandeur que le précédent; c'est le No. 6 du catalogue de M. Mariette, pastel, 13 pouces haut, sur 11 pouces de large
Lot 132: Deux têtes de femmes, l'une de profil, l'autre un peu de trois-quarts, aussi peintes en pastel, chacune de 1 pied de haut, sur 9 pouces de large: elles viennent aussi du cabinet de M. Mariette. pastel, 1 pied de haut, sur 9 pouces de large
Lot 133: Deux autres têtes de femmes, dont une penchée & regardant en bas. Ces pastels sont aussi sçavamment faits que les précédents: ils sont de forme ovale; leurs mérites est supérieur
Lot 134: Deux têtes de jeunes femmes, aussi en pastel, 11 pouces de haut, sur 9 pouces de large
Lot 135: Le portrait de la Rosalba peint en pastel, de même grandeur que celles ci-dessus
Conway, v. Wertheimer
Marie-Joséphine COPPIETERS.
Bruges, Pachtere, 7.X.1828
Lot 230: Portrait de Mgr. Caïmo, évêque de Bruges, peint au pastel par C. Hoet [Noël], d'après le tableau original du même [1.6 frs; Holtwass v...]
Cardinale Domenico Maria CORSI (c.1633-1697).
Inv., Rome 11.XII.1697
Pastels: Barocci
Cardinale Neri Maria CORSINI (1685-1770).
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Inv., Rome, 1750:
Pastels: Sig.ra Luigi, two heads; Luti, Gesù; S. Giovannino; 6 testi
[M. de COSSÉ & al.:]
Paris, Chariot, Paillet, 22.IV.1776 & seq.:
Lot 153: Deux très-belles têtes en pastels, par Haal, l'une blonde, l'autre brune; elles sont d'une touche libre, vraies de couleur, & ajustées avec le goût connu à ce Peintre, qui réussit également dans les différens genre qu'il entreprend. Hauteur, 20 pouces; largeur, 16 pouc. [861 livres]
Mme de COSSÉ, née Marie-Louise-Antoinette-Charlotte-Françoise-Constance de Wignacourt (c.1750-1778), 1er femme du futur 9e duc de Brissac.
Vente p.m., Paris, Dufresne, Le Brun, 11.XI.1778 & seq.:
Fragonard, Le Baiser dangereux
Hyacinthe-Hugues-Timoléon, duc de Cossé 1784, 9e duc de Brissac, dit duc de COSSÉ-BRISSAC, comte de l'Empire (1746-1813), sénateur
Paris, Metzinger, Regnault, 9.XII.1813:
Lot 24: [Anon.]: Cinq Tableaux: Tête de Vierge et Portraits, attribués à Theaulon et autres (un est en pastel et sous verre). Cet article sera divisé.[17 frs; Payant]
La comtesse Alain COSTA DE BEAUREGARD: her sale of dessins et tableaux anciens included a Ducreux auto, pnt.
Vente succession, Paris, Libert, Castor, 26.VI.1989.
Pastels: Perronneau, Journu
Adolfo COSTA DU RELS (1891-1980), Bolivian diplomat and author, ambassador to Paris 1948-52.
Pastels: La Tour, auto
Cardinale Giovanni Battista COSTAGUTI. His inventory (Rome, 31.I.1715) included a "pastel" by Mola.
Lit.: Getty provenance index
Francis COTES (1726-1770), pastellist.
Sale p.m., London, Cavendish Square, Langford, 21-25.II.1771:
Lot I/9. Three heads in crayons, and a drawing framed and glazed
Lot VII/14. Three portraits in crayons of Erasmus, Locke and Newton
Lot VII/15. Two fruit pieces in ditto
Lot VII/16. One ditto by F. Cotes
Lot XI/16. Three various in crayons
Lot XI/17. Five unfinished heads in crayons
Lot XI/18. Five ditto
Lot XI/19. Four ditto of ladies
Lot XI/20. Two ditto finished
Lot XI/21. Two ditto
Lot XI/22. Three ladies, in ditto
Lot XI/23. Two ditto, the Queen of Denmark and Miss Lassels
Lot XI/24. A man's head fram'd and glaz'd
Lot XI/25. One ditto of Miss Jones, fram'd and glaz'd
Lot XI/26. One ditto of a lady, fram'd and glaz'd
Lot XI/27. Two ditto of the Dutchess of Hamilton and lady Coventry
Lot XI/28. Two heads, fram'd and glaz'd
Lot XI/29. Two ditto
Lot XI/30. A small whole length of Emma
Lot XI/31. A fryar's head, and 1 other
Lot XI/32. A dog's head, fram'd and glaz'd, by Cotes
Lot XI/67. Cupid in crayons by Cotes
Lot XI/68. A Venus and Cupid by ditto
Jean COTTIN ( -1781), banquier, directeur de la Cie des Indes: his collection, of nearly 1000 lots, included paintings, drawings, prints, enamels and miniatures, and some 142 portraits, classified separately.
Lit.: Lüthy 1961
Paris, Grignard, Helle & Glomy, 27.XI.- 22.XII.1752:
Lot 267: Une belle Têtes de Vieillard dessinée au pastel, par M. Pierre, 22 livres 1 sol; Le Brun; Lot 310: Trois têtes au pastel, dont une de Noel Coypel & une Cêne dessinée par Gunsi. 14 livres 19 sols; Lot 330: Boucher: Une Tête de jeune Dessinateur, peinte au pastel, par Boucher, dans cette maniere gracieuse, qui fait si fort rechercher les Desseins de cet habile Maître. 10 pouces de large, sur 11 de haut, 17 livres 11 sols; Babaut; Lot 337: Une belle Tête de Femme au pastel vigoureusement coloré par M. Pierre, 18 pouces de haut, sur 14 pouces 6 lignes de large, 22 livres; Glomy; Lot 383: [Anon:] Une Madeleine peinte au pastel. 20 pouces de haut sur 16 de large. 12 livres 6 sols; Lot 385: [Anon:] Un Pot de Fleur, peint au pastel, morceau agréable. 26 pouces de haut sur 19 de large, 48 livres 19 sols; Rognier [ou] Ragnier
Paris, Grignard, Helle & Glomy, 26.IX.1758 & seq.:
Lot 86: Onze Têtes en pastel encadrées de verre, peintes par le Sieur Lambert le Romain ; il y a parmi ces portraits des Sujets célébres [18 livres; Gaillard]
Joseph-Marie-François Spoturno, dit François COTY (1874-1934), leading parfumier, whose success is attributed to his use of bottles designed by Lalique. He was also a newspaper proprietor (Le Figaro) and founder of the right-wing Solidarité française league. He owned the château de Louveciennes.
Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier, 30.XI.-1.XII.1936
COUCICAULT & al.
Paris, Remy, 27.II.1758:
Lot 11: Charles Coypel, d'après Titien: Deux Portraits, dont celui de l'Arétin, d'aprés le Titien, peint au pastel par Charles Coypel. 3 livres; Pierre Remy; Lot 20: [Anon.] Trois belles Têtes, dont deux au pastel, 3 livres 1 sol; [Pierre] Remy; Lot 39: Vingt-sept Desseins, dont plusiers belles Têtes au pastel, d'après M. Pierre. 5 livres; [Jean-François-Marie] Bellier
M. de COURCELLES. A pastel formerly attributed to La Tour (Allais, ??Mme de La Pouplinière) was owned by a M. de Courcelles; he or a homonym lent a pastel by Opie (Wolcot) to the Paris 1911 exhibition.
Auguste COURTIN, illegitimate son of the grammarian Pierre Chapsal.
Paris, Escribe, 29.III.1886:
Lot 77: La Tour, auto
Mrs Phoebe COWLES, San Francisco, collector of old master paintings; donated a painting by Oudry to The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
New York, Christie's, 23.I.2004:
Lot 63, 61: La Tour, M. & Mme Belle-Isle
The Earls COWPER. Panshanger House, built by the 5th Earl, was demolished in 1953, and the Sotheby's sale followed. The Mengs pastels were presumably acquired by George Nassau Clavering, 3rd Earl Cowper (1738-1789), whose portrait Mengs also painted. A Rembrandt portrait had been sold in 1911 to the NGA, Washington.
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London, Sotheby's, 16.X.1953:
Lot 9: Mengs, 2 allegories
Charles-Antoine COYPEL (1694-1752), pastellist.
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Vente p.m., Paris, Mariette, 27.III.-.IV.1753:
Antoine Coypel
Lot 270 [part]: Deux Têtes de Femme au pastel [divided: 21 livres 12 sols & 15 livres 16 sols]
Lot 276: Quatre Etudes de Têtes au pastel ou aux trois crayons. [12 livres]
Lot 277 [part]: Cinq autres Etudes de Têtes aussi au pastel ou aux trois crayons, [divided: 7 & 12 livres 4 sols]
Charles Coypel
Lot 279:: Le Portrait du Roi en Apollon, peint au pastel, sous glace [23 livres 19 sols; abbé Démée]
Lot 280: Le Portrait du même prince dans son enfance, aussi peint au pastel, & pareillement sous glace [20 livres; Silvestre]
Lot 281: Le Portrait de feue Madame la Dauphine Infante d'Espagne, & celui d'un homme; l'un & l'autre peint au pastel [12 livres 14 sols]
Lot 282: Portrait de Mgr le Duc d'Orléans étant Duc de Chartres, peint au pastel; il est sous glace [17 livres; St. Philippe]
Lot 283: Le Portrait de Mademoiselle de Charolois, & celui de Madame la Marquise de Sévigné, peints au pastel [72 livres; Gouvernet]
Lot 284: Le Portrait de l'Ambassadeur Turc qui vint en France peu après l'avénement du Roi à la Couronne, & celui de son Fils, qui dans la suite a été lui-même Ambassadeur à la Cour de France; peints au pastel [20 livres; Silvestre]
Lot 285: Portrait de M. de Mondonville, Musicien célebre, peint au pastel [24 livres; St. Philippe
Lot 287: Deux Têtes dessines au pastel, & un sujet de Vierge, dessiné aux trois crayons [11 livres 1 sol; Babaut]
Lot 288: Deux Etudes faites au pastel sur le naturel, l'une pour la Tête de Joseph, & l'autre pour celle de la femme de Putiphar, dans un tableau qui a été peint par M. Charles Coypel, & qui représente Joseph accusé par cette femme impudique [ b/i]
Lot 289: Trois Têtes, peintes au pastel d'après nature, une de Vieillard & deux de jeunes gens [13 livres 4 sols; Helle
Lot 290: Deux autres Etudes de Têtes au pastel, une de jeune homme, & l'autre de femme, dont M. Charles Coypel s'est servi dans le tableau où il a représenté la Peinture chassant de chez elle le Génie de la Poésie[27 livres; Helle]
Lot 291: Deux Têtes peintes d'après nature au pastel, l'une de femme qui dans un Tableau de M. Coypel reprsente Athalie, & l'autre d'un jeune homme [18 livres 10 sols; Démée]
Lot 292: Qutre autres Etudes de Têtes au pastel ou aux trois crayons [20 livres 2 sols]
Lot 293: Deux Têtes peintes au pastel, & copiées d'après un Maître Italien; elles sont sous glace [31 livres 10 sols]
Lot 294: Une Tête d'homme pareillement peinte au pastel, & copiée par M. Charles Coypel pour son étude, d'après un tableau du Titien qui est au Palais Royal [24 livres 4 sols]
Lot 295: Le Portrait du Ministre Swalmius, copié par le même au pastel, d'après le tableau de Rembrandt, au Palais Royal [36 livres 1 sol; Joullain]
Lot 296: Cinq Etudes de Têtes, dessinées aux trois crayons ou au pastel, dont celle d'un enfant [7 livres 19 sols]
Lot 297: Deux Paysages peints au pastel, & enrichis chacun de figures: ils sont sous des glaces [97 livres; Valade]
Lot 298: L'Amour se faisant un arc, copie au pastel faite par M. Charles Coypel, du tableau du Correge qui est au Palais Royal: elle est sous une glace [72 livres; St. Philippe
Antoine Coypel
Lot 345 [part]: plusieurs Têtes au pastel [36 livres 6 sols for whole lot; Glomy]
Philippe COYPEL (1703-1777), frère de Charles Coypel.
Vente p.m., Paris, 11.VI.1777
Lot 42: Adrienne Lecouvreur, par Charles-Antoine Coypel [La France rendant grâces...]
Lot 43: Le portrait de Louis XV, de grandeur naturelle, au pastel, par le même, sous glace
Lot 43 bis: Les Quatre Saisons, 4 pastels par le même
Lot 44: Une jeune fille vue à mi-corps & de face; elle tient un masque, par le même. 23 pouces x 18 pouces [96 livres] [? Mme de Mouchy]
Lot 45: Jeune fille tenant une colombe, par le même, d'après le pastel de Rosalba
Lot 46: Le portrait en buste d'une jeune Dame, peinte au pastel par le même, sur peau. Haut. 15 pouc. larg. 12 pouc. sous glace
Anselme-Alphonse CRIGNON DE MONTIGNY (1812-1877), conseiller d'État, politician from Orléans, whose vast medal collection was dispersed on his death (Paris, 1-6.III.1880). His son, Anselme-Guy-Gaston (1847-1898), officier du génie, had no interest at the time, but soon afterwards became fatally ill, and decided to devote his remaining years to reassembling his father's collection. The 1899 sale that took place shortly after the Gaston's death included a group of miniatures as well as large numbers of coins, medals, cameos and intaglios, but only one pastel.
Paris, Drouot, Chevallier, 24-27.V.1899:
Lot 314: La Tour [Ducreux], Mme Poisson
La comtesse [Gigault de] CRISENOY de Lyonne, née Jenny-Louise Hufflen, wife of Charles, comte Crisenoy de Lyonne (whose mother was a Montesquiou-Fezensac),
owned a pastel by Capet (homme) in 1934. Sales of Chinese and French ceramics and objets d'art took place in 1971 (Paris, Drouot, Ader,
Picard, 19.V.1971). Henri-Pierre-Charles, baron de Crisenoy (1882-), son of the painter Pierre-Émile de Crisenoy (1827-1902), owned a Perronneau
(homme) in 1923; this may have descended from the Tourolle family.
Lit.: Révérend
Edward CROFT-MURRAY (1907-1980), keeper of prints and drawings, British Museum, from 1954 to 1972; specialist in British art.
Lit.: James Byam Shaw, Burlington magazine, cxxiii/935, .II.1981, pp. 99-100
Pastels: Cotes, Bridget Gunning; Lutterell, Lutma; Rembrandt's mother
Marc-Antoine-Nicolas, marquis de CROISMARE (1694-1772), friend of Rousseau, Grimm and Mme d'Épinay. The Mengs pastels were reported by Diderot in 1763.
Pastels: Mengs, courtisane; philiosophe
Ernest CRONIER (1840-1905). Of humble origins, Cronier was trained as an engineer at the École polytechnique; his talents were spotted
early by the French sugar magnate, Henri Say. Cronier rose to be managing director of the firm and after Say's death trustee of his estate.
He also founded the Sucreries d'Égypte. The vast Say fortune was estimate at up to ?100 million; Say's widow lived in a mansion on the
Champs-Élysées, while Cronier and his family bought an important house on the rue de Lisbonne. He acquired French and English 18th
century portraits, as well as paintings by Watteau and Fragonard, from Gimpel and others during the period 1898 until his suicide in .VIII.1905
following the failure of his specaultions on the sugar market. Acting in concert with Jaluzot, founder of the Printemps department store,
they used the Say estate to take an enormous long position which proved disastrous when the price of sugar halved. Criminal proceedings
against Jaluzot commenced, while Cronier took cyanide and simultaneously shot himself.
The posthumous sale in 1905 does not include all his collection, as he occasionally made exchanges.
Lit.: Alexandre 1905; Bouyer 1905; Gimpel 1963; New York Times, 24.IX.1905
Vente p.m., Paris, Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreuil, 4-5.XII.1905:
Lot 38: La Tour, Coventry; Lot 39: Perronneau, Mme Le Boucher de Richemont, sd 1770; Lots 40, 41: Perronneau, inconnu; inconnue; La Tour, Earl & Countess of Coventry; Schmidt; Russell, child; La Tour, Schmidt
The two sons of Antoine CROZAT, a banker from Toulouse, Antoine II Crozat de Chastel (1655-1738) and Pierre Crozat "le pauvre" (1665-1740), moved to Paris in 1703. While Antoine continued to increase his vast fortune through international trade, Pierre's attention was concentrated on legendary art collection, including some 400 paintings and 18,000 drawings at his hôtel in the rue de Richelieu. Part of the collection was sold after his death for the benefit of the poor; some of these sheets were acquired by the duc d'Orléans. The paintings were inherited by his nephew Louis-François Crozat, marquis du Châtel (1691-1750); after his death, the sculptures were sold at auction in 1751, while the paintings were divided between his children. Those of the sons were subsquently acquired by Crozat de Thiers, place Vendôme. After his death in 1770, the collection was sold by Diderot to Catherine II, and is now in the Hermitage. Catherine II also acquired a number of pictures from the estate of the marquis du Châtel's daughter, the duchesse de Choiseul.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Grove 1996; NGA website; Cordélia Hattori, "Contemporary drawings in the collection of Pierre Crozat", Master drawings, xlv/1, 2007; Livre-journal de Lazare Duvaux, marchand-bijoutier, 1748-1758, ed. J. Courajod, Paris, 1873, I, p. cccxi
Vente p.m.: Paris, Mariette, 10.IV.-13.V.1741:
Frederic Baroche d'Urbin
Cette collection de Desseins du Baroche, est extrêmement précieuse. M. Crozat en a apporté d'Urbin les principaux Desseins; quant aux Têtes en pastel qui sont d'une beauté singuliere, & telles qu'on les devoit attendre d'un Peintre qui marchoit de fort près sur les traces du Correge, il les trouva à Venise chez M. Chechelberg. Cet amateur qui en connoissoit le prix, les avoit toujours conservé sous des glaces. Au reste, ces Desseins confirment ce qu'on dit les Auteurs, des précautions singulieres que prenoit le Baroche pour conduire ses ouvrages au point de la perfection; car les Etudes pour un même tableau y sont multipliées de telle sorte, qu'on n'imagine pas qu'un homme ait pû avoir la constance de pousser aussi loin le travail
Lot 223: Trois Desseins, dont la premiere pensée très-arrétée du tableau de l'Annonciation qui est à Lorette, & dont on a une si belle Estampe du Baroche. 24 livres 3 sols; Hecquet
Lot 227: Cinq, idem, dont le Mariage de sainte Catherine [72 livres; Agard]
Lot 228: Huit, idem, dont la Vierge à l'oiseau, qu'à gravé Corneille Corn [20 livres 15 sols; Hecquet]
Lot 230: Douze, idem, dont la sainte Vierge dans le Ciel, partie du tableau de l'Eglise de saint François à Urbin [26 livres 10 sols; Agar]
Lot 231: Quinze, idem, dont la Visitation de sainte Elisabeth, grande & belle Composition qui a appartenu à Pierro Lely [32 livres 14 sols; Fremin]
Lot 235: Trois Têtes en pastel [22 livres; Tessin]
Lot 236: Trois autres belles Têtes en pastel [30 livres 1 sol]
Lot 237: Trois, idem, dont la Tête d'un Religieux qui regarde en bas [60 livres 12 sols; Hecquet]
Lot 238: Trois, idem, dont l'Etude pour la belle Tête de sainte Micheline [90 livres 10 sols; Tessin]
Lot 239: Trois, idem, dont la Tête d'une des Saintes femmes du tableau de la Descente de Croix [100 livres 1 sol; Agar.]
Lot 240: Quatre, idem, dont une Tête de Vieillard [100 livres; Tessin]
Lot 241: Douze autres Têtes & Etudes diverses [12 livres 10 sols; Hecquet p. Mariette]
Lot 242: Douze, idem, [9 livres; Filleul]
Lot 245: Quinze, idem, [8 livres 1 sol; Agar]
Lot 246: Un grand Dessein du Baroche, représentant Jesus-Christ porté au tombeau: c'est sur ce beau Dessein qui est d'un fini & d'une conservation parfaite, qu'a été gravée l'Estampe de Gilles Sadeler [100 livres 1 sol; Hecquet p. Mariette]
Lot 247: Deux grands & beaux Desseins du même Maître; l'un représentant Jesus-Christ descendu de dessus la Croix, & l'autre S. François recevant les Stigmates: le premier est une très-belle Esquisse pour le tableau; & l'autre a servi à Villamene pour graver sa planche [30 livres; Tessin]
Lot 249: Sept grands Desseins du Baroche, dont quatre de Païsages [10 livres 1 sol; Agar]
Jacques & François Bassan
Si le Bassan s'étoit contenté de faire des Desseins, il ne jouiroit pas de la réputation qu'il s'est acquise; ses Desseins tous indécis qu'ils sont, acusent cependant, il faut l'avouer, de la couleur, & c'est ce qui les fait rechercher.
Lot 704: Vingt Desseins, dont l'Etude d'une femme portant son enfant, en pastel [42 livres; Noury]
Almanach des Beaux-Arts, 1762, collection de Pierre Crozat:
Petit salon: cinq têtes en pastel de Mlle Rosa Alba; Petite galerie: une tête de femme de profil, pastel de Mlle Rosa Alba; les Quatre Saisons avec leurs attributs, en pastel, & un portrait de profil, en pastel, de la même main…; plusieurs petits portraits au milieu desquels est placé celui de la comtesse d'Evreux, pastel de Mlle Rosa Alba; une Vierge en pastel, de la même.
Mrs M. V. CUNLIFFE: bequest to the V&A in 1963 included a number of pastels.
London, Sotheby's, 7.V.1963
Pastels: Carriera, tyrollienne; Lawrence, Baker; Read, Mrs Garrick
Casimir Perrin, marquis de CYPIERRE (1784-1844), amateur painter and collector of eighteenth century paintings (Chardin, Watteau), some acquired under the guidance of Théophile Thoré.
Lit.: Bulletin de l'alliance des arts, 25.XII.1844, pp. 179f; 10.II.1845, pp. 242f; Gabriel Girod de l'Ain, Les Thellusson, historie d'une famille, Paris, 1977; Chardin 1979; NGA website
Vente p.m., Paris, Thoré, 10.III.1845 & seq.
Le chevalier de C***, 4.XII.1786:
Lot 118 [Hall, pastel]
CZARTORYSKI. A number of members of this family were active patrons and collectors, notably Adam Kazimierz, prince Czartoryski (1734-1823) and his wife, née comtesse Izabella von Flemming (1746-1835), who employed the pastellists Marteau and Kucharski.
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Lit.: Grove 1996
Mme C...
Vente p.m., Paris, 22.II.1860:
Lot 15: La Tour, inconnue
M. C., possibly a descendant of Ducreux.
Paris, Mauger, Féral, 16-17.XI.1917:
Ducreux, Lot 12, auto; Lot 13, sa femme; Lot 14, fillette; Lot 15, enfant endormi
DAIGREMONT.
Vente p.m., Paris, 3-7.IV.1866
Lot 265: La Tour, 11 croquis
Richard DALTON (c.1713-1791), antiquarian, surveyor of the King's pictures.
Lit.: Ingamells 1997
Vente p.m., London, Christie's, 9-11.IV.1791:
Rosalba Carriera
Lot 17: A portrait of a lady in crayons, in the character of Ceres [£5/15/-; Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans]
Lot 29: The portrait of Seb. Ricci, ditto of Marco Ricci, in crayons [£9/19/-; Grosier]
Lot 30: General Morillio, ditto [the portrait] of Antonio Zanetti [£3/10/-; Mrs Russel]
Lot 51: Two heads in crayons, fine, of a boy and girl [£6/8/-; Grosier]
Lot 69: Three heads in crayon, by Rosalba, 1 a small English portrait by S. White [£1/11/-; Walpole]
Le chevalier de DAMERY
Lit.: Lugt 2862
Edward DANIELL (1807-1892), art dealer and auctioneer, London. The British Museum acquired approximately 1000 drawings or prints from him, including a pastel by Drummond.
A. DANLOS. His posthumous sale included an important collection of early prints.
Vente p.m., Paris, Drouot, 6.VI.1928:
Lot 48: Boucher, Mme Deshays; Lot 49: Boucher, Mme Baudouin
DARAM: lender of several pastels by Mlle Barbet and Pillement to the Salons de Toulouse between 1781 and 1786.
Dictionary, artists
DAUGNY.
Vente p.m., Paris, 8-11.III.1858
David DAVID-WEILL (1871-1952), président du Conseil des musées, major collector and donor to the Louvre and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was born in San Francisco and spent 13 years in the USA before his family returned to France. After the Lycée Condorcet, he joined the banking firm Lazard Frères owned by his uncles in the 1890s, and married Flora Raphael in 1897. His interests ranged from paintings and miniatures to oriental art and antiquities - some of which appear in a Vuillard portrait of him. After his death, his collection of miniatures was split into two groups, one given to the Louvre and the other bought by Wildenstein and sold complete to Sir Charles Clore. David-Weill's philanthropic tradition is continued by his grandson Michel David-Weill.
Lit.: Ch. Morice, "La Collection David-Weill...", L'Art et les artistes, .VIII.1907, pp. 227-235; Henriot 1926-28; Paris 1956a; Jeannerat & Clouzot 1957; Gimpel 1963; Chardin 1979; Donateurs 1989; Grove 1996; Rosenberg 2007; Stourton 2007; NGA website
New York, Parke-Bernet, 22-23.V.1959
London, Sotheby's, 10.VI.1959:
Lot 71: Boucher [Lemoyne], Louis XV; Lot 95: Hoin, auto; Lot 100: La Tour, Mme Savalette; Lot 101: La Tour, Deschamps; Lot 102: Vigée Le Brun, Le Moyne; Lot 107: Perronneau, mse d'Anglure; Lot 114: Nattier [Carriera]; duc de Bourfofne [Friedrich Christian]
Other pastels: La Tour, Pigalle
Rev. Edward Henry DAWKINS (1799-1859), of Morhanger House, near Sandy, Bedfordshire; Fellow of All Souls, vicar of West Markham, Nottinghamshire, 1828; 8 1835 Elizabeth Cooper. The collection passed to their son Edward Henry Frederick Dawkins (1837-1912) before the 1913 sale.
London, Christie's, 28.II.1913:
Lot 16: Caroline [Katherine] Read, James Colyear Dawkins, in white frock and cap, blue sash, oval; Lot 17: Carriera, James Dawkins, in a blue coat, with white stock and pink scarf, powdered wig; Lot 18: Q. de La Tour, Henry Dawkins, in pink coat; Lot ?: Gardner, Lady Portmore
Jean-Élie-Octave-Louis-Sévère-Amanieu, duc DECAZES et Glücksbierg (1864-1912), grandson of Louis XVIII's statesman, and son of the diplomat; he married Isabelle-Blanche Singer (1869-1896), heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune; she committed suicide. He lent pastels by Perronneau to the Cent pastels exhibition in 1908.
Pastels: Ducreux, Louis XVII; Perronneau, Dumas; Luckner
v.q. Fellowes; Singer
Pierre DECOURCELLE (1856-1926), the son of the dramatist Adrien Decourcelle (a collector of faïence) and great nephew of the playwright Adolphe d'Ennery (who collected far eastern art), Decourcelle was also a man of letters and collector. He started his career as a journalist on Le Gaulois; his first play was L'As de Trèfle, while his greatest success was Les Deux Gosses, a melodrama concerning a stolen child. He later turned to the cinema. He built up a collection of French 18th century engravings from the age of 40 before switching to old master drawings and then paintings. He sold these in 1911; a collection which cost ?400,000 sold for ?1.5 million (Matilda Gay noted "the exorbitant prices fetched at this sensational sale - the high water-mark of frenzied snobbishness"). But he restarted collecting immediately, repurchasing some of his own collection at the sale and later. His widow, née Louise Edmée About ( -p.1950), inherited the collection, and a number of drawings were sold in 2002.
Lit.: Jean-Louis Vaudoyer, "La collection de M. Pierre Decourcelle", Les Arts, 111, 1911, p. 6; Pierre Breton, introduction to Christie's 2002 catalogue; Rieder 2000
Paris, Georges Petit, 29-30.V.1911:
Lot 66: Boucher, jeune femme; Lot 74: Boze, Mlle Boze; Lot 102: Labille-Guiard, Robert; Lot 103: Labille Guiard [Ducreux], [??]Mme Poisson; Lot 118: La Tour, auto; Lot 119: La Tour, Pommyer; Lot 120: La Tour, attr., Destouches; Lot 122: Le Noir, femme 1764; Lot 137: Perronneau, Cochin; Lot 154: Carriera, jeune fille à la colombe; Lot 155: Russell, man
Paris, Christie's, 21.III.2002:
Lot 318: Labille-Guiard [Ducreux], ??Mme Poisson
Edgar DEGAS (1834-1917) inherited a number of pastels from his father, the banker Auguste de Gas (1807-1874). The group consisted of
five pastels thought to be by La Tour, four of which seems to have been acquired by Auguste de Gas in an anonymous Paris sale, 20-21.V.1873,
including versions of Marie-Josèphe and Mme de Pompadour, the inconnu now in the musée Jacquemart-André,
(of which Degas made a copy in oils which is now in Lausanne), and an unknown officier, then thought to be by La Tour,
but in fact by Ducreux. All four, with a further La Tour magistrat, were lent to the Paris 1874a exhibition. Degas also owned a Rosalba
autoritratto. A Perronneau oil portrait, Mme Miron, was also part of the collection;
it appears in Degas's pastel portrait of his sister Thérèse of around 1869. Degas frequently visited Saint-Quentin.
Shortly after the death of his father, the affairs of the family bank obliged Degas to seek to sell much of the collection,
and some of the pastels were acquired by Hector Brame.
Lit.: Dumas & al. 1997; Reff 1971; Reff, forthcoming edition of Degas letters
Paris, Georges Petit, 26-27.III.1918; 15-16.XI.1918
Dr Barry DELANY (fl. c.1875), doctor at the Kilkenny lunatic asylum and collector of drawings.
Lit.: Lugt 350
Pastels: Tilson, Turner
Mrs Patrick DELANY, née Mary Granville, Mrs Alexander Pendarves (1700-1788), amateur pastellist and collector. Her will included pastels by Liotard and Pond.
Dictionary, artists
Paul DELAROCHE (1797-1856), peintre.
Vente p.m., Paris, 15-17.VI.1857:
:Lot 33: La Tour, Louis XVI
Robert DELL (1865-1940), journalist, first editor of the Burlington magazine, 1903-06; he resigned to become Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. He was expelled from France after the war, having criticised the the French Government's peace negotiations in 1917. He later lived in New York. He lent several pastels to the Paris 1911 exhibition. Dell's attribution of two pastels to Engleheart (q.v.) seems improbable.
Lit.: dictionaryofarthistorians.org
Pastels: W. Hamilton, Adelaide Payne; Phelps, Handel
M. & Mme DELLEZENNE
Vente p.m., Paris, Jean-Claude-Marie Narjot, Martin, 19.V.1818 & seq.:
Lot 40: copie d'après Boucher: Tableau peinte en pastel, représentant Jupiter et Léda, accompagnée d'une nymphe. D'une très-bonne couleur et grande franchise d'exécution [Fr 34; Aubé]
Peter DELMÉ (1710-1770), of Huguenot origins. He was the son of Sir Peter Delmé ( -1728), a successful merchant who became Lord Mayor of London and a governor of the Bank of England. His son became an MP in 1741, and he was well known as a patron and connoisseur. Although his wealth earned him the nickname of Peter the Tsar, his prodigious spending led to financial difficulties and he shot himself at his London home, 15 Grosvenor Square. Delmé commissioned Arthur Pond to make numerous copies after Rosalba Carriera. The attribution of the pastels in the 1790 sale (presumably that of his son, Peter III (1739-1780)) should be treated with caution.
Vente p.m., London, Christie's, 13.II.1790:
Lot 21: Rosalba, Two fancy heads in crayons, elegantly framed and plate glass [6 gns; Munroe]
Jean-Baptiste-Gustave DÉLOYE (1838-1899), sculptor and collector of drawings; he made a large bequest to the musée de Picardie, Amiens.
Lit.: Lugt 756; Boyer 1997
Paris, Chevallier, 12-15.VI.1899:
Belle, femme
Marie-Joseph-Hector DELZONS (1821-1895), greffier de justice de paix in Paris, then juge de paix at Arthenay. A descendent of the
Chevotet and Rémond families, he bequeathed an important group of pastels to the musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans.
Dictionary, genealogy, Rémond
Lit.: Klinka-Ballesteros 2005
Pastels: Perronneau, M. & Mme Chevotet; Valade, 5 pstls
Abbé DEMÉE [du Mée]
Vente p.m., Paris, Joullain, 11-12.VI.1772:
Lot 22: [Anon.:] Quelques Portraits, peints au pastel, qui seront détaillés [38 livres 16 sols]
Anatole Nikolaievich DEMIDOV, prince de San Donato (1812-1870), a member of the wealthy Russian family, educated in Paris. After his father's death in 1836, he took charge of the family villa at San Donato near Florence, part of which he turned over to a workshop for the manufacture of silks, while also enlarging the extensive art collection. An expedition to the Crimea which he organised in 1837 resulted in the numerous scientific publications. In 1840 he married Napoleon's niece, princesse Mathilde (q.v.), but they were separated in 1748. Demidov's collections and titles passed to his nephew Paul Demidov (1839-1885).
Lit.: Anatole Demidioff, prince of San Donato (1812-70), exh. London, The Wallace Collection, 1994. Cat. Francis Haskell, Robert Wenley & David Edge
Paris, 26 boulevard des Italiens, Charles Pillet, 26.II.1860: II: Tableaux anciens, école française.
Paris, 8-10.III.1860: III: Aquarelles…pastels…:
Lot 396: Greuze, La petite tricoteuse; Lot 397: Franklin; Lot 398: Freij [Frey], marquise du Châtelet, 1758; Lot 399: Nanteuil, Molière
Albert DEMONS (1842–1920), professeur, specialist in bone surgery: Legacy to the musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux in 1927, with a further item in 1937 from Mme Demons.
Pastels: La Tour, Marie-Josèphe; Marie Leszczynska;Valade, dame; Vigée, dame
Georges Joseph DEMOTTE (1877–1923): Belgian antiques dealer and restorer. Based in Paris, rue de Berry c.1920, he had opened a
business in New York by 1923. He was in competition with Duveen, and accusations of forgery of goods supplied by Demotte led to a defamation
action that ended when Demotte was found dead near Versailles. His business passed to his son Lucien, who committed suicide in 1934.
Demotte Inc. held exhitions of Persian miniatures and mediaeval French sculpture and stained glass in New York between 1929 and 1934.
Pastels: Perronneau, Agard; abbé Journu; J-B. Journu; Mme Legrix; Mme Molles
Mme DENAIN, mother of the wife of the composer Léo Delibes.
Paris, Chevallier, 6-7.IV.1893:
Lot 33. Ducreux, Femme; La Tour, Lot 34/35. M. & Mme Grimod de la Reynière; Lot 36, Mlle Sallé
Dominique Vivant, baron DENON (1747-1825), artist and arts administrator.
Dictionary, artists
Lit.: Chardin 1979
Paris, Masson, Pérignon, 1-19.V.1826:
Lot 267: Barocci, tête; Lot 817: La Tour, Crébillon
Thomas-Aignan DESFRICHES (1715-1800), draughtsman, patron and collector from Orléans; founded the École académique de dessin in 1786 and the musée d'Orléans in 1797. He was known particularly for his friendship with Chardin and Perronneau.
Lit.: Chardin 1979; Chatelus 1991, pp. 297ff; Ratouis de Limay 1907; Grove; Klinka-Ballesteros 2005
Pastels: Perronneau, Mme Cadet de Limay; Cochin; M. & Mme Desfriches; Robbé
DESMARETS. A large collection of drawings and prints were in the 1778 sale; possibly the same vendor as the dealer in the 1797 sale of "J. Desmarets, cessation de commerce".
Paris, Hayot, Basan, 24.IV.1778 & seq.:
Carriera
Lot 520: L'étude d'une jolie femme, au pastel; elle tient des pêches dans un mouchoir. 24 sur 18 de lar. par la Rosalba [699 livres 19 sols]
Paris, Le Brun, 17.III.1797 & seq.:
Carriera
Lot 104: Deux têtes, l'une de femme, l'autre d'homme, de forme ovale, pastel, Haut.r 12 po. larg.r 9 po. ½ [62 livres; Alexandre-Louis Roëttiers de Montaleau]
E.-Auguste DESPERET (1804-1865), draughtsman, engraver and collector; his collection of some 650 drawings were sold over six days.
Lit.: Bénézit; Lugt 721
Vente p.m., Paris, Delbergne, 7-13.VI.1865:
M. DESPREZ.
Paris, Drouot, 18-19.V.1921:
Lot 31: Labille-Guiard, femme, sd 1789
G. DES SÉZURS.
Paris, 4.XII.1876:
Lot 3: La Tour, inconnue
Gabriel-Hippolyte DESTAILLEUR (1822-1893), architect and collector, noted for this neo-rennaissance designs and restorations of châteaux in France and England (Waddesdon Manor). His albums of architectural drawings are in a number of public collections, including Berlin and St Petersburg. The Bibliothèque nationale de France received 1328 drawings and engravings as a donation in 1890, and later purchased another 3500 sheets. Three pastels were acquired at the 1896 sale by the musée Carnavalet.
Lit.: Lugt 740
Paris, Delestre, Morgand, 19-23.V.1896:
Barocci, femme; La Hyre, La Hire; Troost, ?auto
Henri DEUTSCH DE LA MEURTHE (1846-1919), a member of the family which made its fortune from petrol refining and the development of aviation fuel; the firm was later taken over by Shell. They were also supporters of the arts. His daughter, Mme Henri Goldet, inherited the La Tour pastel which was given to Versailles.
Pastels: La Tour, ??La Pouplinière
Eugène DEVÉRIA (1805-1865), peintre.
Paris, 29.IV.-3.V.1839:
Lot 77: La Tour, dames
Antoine-Joseph DÉZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE (1680-1765), secrétaire du roi, was a celebrated naturalist, connoisseur and collector. His influential Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres appeared in four volumes, 1745-52; its technical analysis, particularly of drawings, drew on his own extensive collection. This was dispersed in two sales (1766 and 1779, following his widow's death). His son Antoine-Nicolas (1723-1796), also a magistrate, was the author of the Voyage pittoresque de Paris (1749) and des environs de Paris (1755), of several gardening treatises, and of an extension of his father's work, the Vies des dameux architectes et sculpteurs… (1787).
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Jacqueline Labbe & Lise Bicart-Sée, La collection de dessins d'Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris, 1966; Chatelus 1991, pp. 286f; Grove 1996; Lise Bicart-Sée, "Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville: supplement of newly identified drawings from his collection", Master drawings, xlv/1, 2007
Inv. p.m., AN MC xlix 749 10.XII.1765
Dézallier d'Argenville, vente p.m., Paris, Remy, 3.III.1766 & seq.:
Boucher, garçon avec un panais; homme; femme
Dézallier d'Argenville: Paris, 18-28.I.1779:
Lot 550: Lafosse, femme
Henri DIDIER (1823-1868), député.
Paris, 15-17.VI.1868:
Lot 158: La Tour, Mme de la Réynière; 159: La Tour, Dupouch; Natoire, jeune fille
Other pastels: La Tour, Jeaurat
Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), philiosophe, editor of the Encyclopédie, art critic, acted for Catherine II in acquiring numerous pictures
Lit.: Grove 1996
François DIDOT (1689-1757) established the printing business in Paris which was continued by an extended dynasty. The celebrated type founder was Firmin Didot (1764-1836). His son, Ambroise-Firmin Didot, later known as Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), diplomat and traveller, took over the business in 1827. He was interested in classical literature, typography, paper makingand engraving, and his reference books on the Drevets and Les Graveurs de portraits en France, 1875-77 are of great use. He assembled a large collection of portrait drawings by Vaillant, lent to the Paris 1888 exhibition after his death, but then broken up. The Didot whose sale took place in 1825 has not been identified.
Didot: Paris, Henry Lacoste, 6-9.IV.1825:
Pastels: Greuze, La Crainte; Vigée Le Brun, Vénus liant les ailes de l'Amour
AFD: vente p.m., Paris, Delestre, 16.IV.-12.V.1877:
Basil Lewis DIGHTON ( -1930), antique dealer of 3 Savile Row, London from around 1900, expert in prints as well as furniture. Lawrence & Dighton's French line engravings of the late eighteenth century was published in 1910. The case of Shrager v Basil Dighton Ltd (1924), in which he was sued by a dissatisfied client, is frequently cited as a legal precedent.
Pastels: Carriera, La Filosofia (2); Doré, jeune femme; Gardner, Williams-Wynn
Geoffrey DODGE, interior designer. A Yale graduate, he moved to Paris during the First World War, and opened an antiques shop in the rue Bayard, moving later to the place Vendôme. He was Walter Gay's agent.
Lit.: Rieder 2000
Pastels: La Tour, Jullienne
Campbell DODGSON (1867-1949), Keeper of prints and drawings, British Museum, 1912-32; collector.
Pastels: Greenhill, lady
George Bubb DODINGTON (c.1691-1762), diplomat and statesman, art collector. He was in Rome in 1732 to buy pictures for Eastbury, his seat in Dorset, where he made the acquaintance of Cardinal Albani whose pastel portrait by Katherine Read was subequently sent to him.
Lit.: Ingamells 1997
Henry DOETSCH, collector of old master pictures.
Sale p.m., London, Christie's, 22-25.VI.1895:
Lot 452: La Tour, Mme de Pompadour
Georges DŒUILLET, fashion designer. Initially manager of Callot sœurs, his business merged with that of Jacques Doucet after Doucet's death in 1929 but closed in 1932.
Paris, Georges Petit, 27.IV.1932:
Lot 34: La Tour, Montalembert; Lot 36: Perronneau, homme; Lot 37: Russell, jeune femme
Fernand DOL: his legacy to the musée Granet in 1942 contained a version of La Tour's Rousseau formerly attributed to Perronneau.
Lit.: Ph. Henry Ely, "La collection Fernand Dol, au musée d'Aix-en-Provence", Les Arts, 28.XII.1945
Félix DOISTAU (1846-1936): French industrialist, amateur painter and collector, with interests ranging from XVIIIe enamels and boxes to ceramics and Gobelins tapestries. His main collection of some 169 miniatures, was exhibited in the Bibliothèque nationale in 1906. It was then initially lent and finally given to the Louvre in 1919. He also gave generously to the musée Guimet and Musée des arts décoratifs.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Paris, Georges Petit, 9-11.VI.1909:
Lot 59: La Tour, attr., homme; Lot 88: Duplessis, Gluck; Lot 89: Duplessis [Lenoir], jeune fille; Lot 91: Mme Fragonard, jeune fille; Lot 92: Hoin, père; Lot 93: Perronneau, Le Normant du Coudray
Vincent DONJEUX, négociant de tableaux et curiosités. He collaborated with Remy on providing expertises for estate inventories.
Vente p.m., Paris, Jeluseau, Le Brun & Paillet, 29.IV.1793:
Lot 13: Mengs: Deux pastels: l'un représente un jeune homme, l'autre une jeune fille, avec les attributs de l'innocence; ils sons de proportion demi-nature et vus á mi-corps. Ces deux morceaux dont on rencontreroit difficilement les pareils, réunissent l'agrément et la grace á la beauté. Haut. 23 pouces, larg. 18 pouces 6 lignes, de forme ovale et sous glace. Ils viennent de la vente du Baron d'Olback. N.2 de notre catalogue, vendus 1,200 livres. [601 livres; Matou?]
Lot 39: Rosalba Carriera: Deux charmans pastels; le premier offre une jeune fille vue á mi-corps, coëffée en cheveux, la gorge en partie couverte d'une draperie, et tenant dans ses mains une colombe. Le pendant représente une jeune fille aussi vue á mi-corps, vêtue d'une draperie bleue, et tenant un paquet de fleurs. Haut. 20 p. larg. 15 p. 8 lig. Ils viennent de la vente de notre cabinet, No. 262, vendus 200 liv. [210 livres; Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun]
Lot 460: Charles Coypel: Le portrait d'une jeune demoiselle assise, vus jusqu'aux genoux et ajustée d'une palatine, parure de fleurs, etc. Ce morceau est peint au pastel et sous verre. Haut. 28 p. larg. 24, [81 livres 1 sol; Boën]
Comte Arnauld DORIA (1890-1977), art historian, of 23 avenue d'Iéna, Paris 16e in 1922. Author of monographs on Capet, Tocqué etc.
Pastels: Frédou, bailli de Foresta
Georges DORMEUIL (1856-1939), Paris, head of the textile firm founded by Jules Dormeuil in 1842. He created an important collector of mediaeval works, many acquired with advice from Marius Paulme. In addition to a donation to the Louvre, Dormeuil gave an important series of Saint-Aubin drawings to the musée Carnavalet. He lent pastels by La Tour and Perronneau to both the Cent pastels (Paris 1908a) and Paris 1927a exhibitions.
Lit.: P. Verlet, "La donation Dormeuil au département des objets d'art", Bulletin des musées de France, .XI.1946; Donateurs 1989
Paris, Sotheby's, 19.XI.2007: ivoires et émaux du Moyen Age
Pastels: La Tour, Dupouch; Lemoyne; Perrinet de Jars; homme; Perronneau, Dutillleu; Mme Lemoyne; Van Robais; enfant 1744; femmes (2)
Jacques DOUCET (1853-1929), made his fortune as owner of one of the leading houses of haute-couture in Paris from 1895 to 1927. He also assembled one of the most important collections of XVIIIe drawings, pictures and objets d'art in his hôtel on the rue Spontini. A watercolour by Adrien Karbowsky shows the main drawing room around 1905 with a wall on which four La Tour pastels are hung among Chardin, Ducreux, Lawrence and Reynolds canvases. After the 1912 sale of this collection by Lair-Dubreuil (achieving a record 15,272,796 francs), he moved to Neuilly, where he started a new collection, of the avant garde of his day. To both of these he brought his legendary perfectionism. He supported a number of writers (Suarès, Max Jacob, Reverdy, Breton, Aragon) and left to the université de Paris two libraries, the Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie and the Bibliothèque littéraire. Part of his collections descended in the family to his great-nephew Jean Angladon-Dubrujeaud and are now part of the Fondation Angladon in Avignon.
Lit.: Maurice Tourneux, "Collection de M. Jacques Doucet", Les Arts, 36, 1904, p. 4, 5, 16; A. Joubin, "Jacques Doucet", Gazette des beaux-arts, .II.1930, p. 75ff; Gimpel 1963; Élisabeth de Gramont, La femme et la robe, Paris, 1952; Chardin 1979; F. Chapon, Mystère et splendeurs de Jacques Doucet, 1853-1929, Paris, 1984; Donateurs 1989; Grove 1996; Gazette Drouot, 31.III.2000, p. 79; Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Antiquaires, Paris, 2001, p 41; Gérard Allouche, "La razzia des milliardaires", Gazette Drouot, 20.II.2004, p. 126
Paris, Drouot, Paul Chevallier, 6.III.1899
Paris, Drouot, Paul Chevallier, 16-17.V.1906:
Lot 77: Perronneau, homme
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreuil, Baudouin, 5-8.VI.1912:
Lot 70: Carriera, auto; Lot 71: Carriera [Coypel], tête d'étude [Fr 13,000]; Lot 72: Ducreux, la fille de Sophie Arnould [Fr 19,000]; Lot 73: Greuze, La mère bien-aimée [Fr 35,000]; Lot 74: La Tour, Jars [Fr 110,000]; Lot 75: La Tour, Duval de l'Épinoy [Fr 600,000]; Lot 76: La Tour, Belle-Isle [Fr 46,000]; Lot 77: La Tour, marquise de Belle-Isle [Fr 40,000]; Lot 78: La Tour, Mme Grimod de La Reynière [Fr 95,000]; Lot 79: La Tour, Marguerite Le Comte [Fr 105,000]; Lot 80: La Tour, inconnu [Fr 25,000] [Cognacq-Jay]; Lot 81: La Tour, marquise de Rumilly [Fr 43,100]; Lot 82: La Tour, jeune fille brune [Fr 25,800]; Lot 83: La Tour, jeune fille [Fr 11,500] [Cognacq-Jay]; Lot 84: La Tour, D'Alembert [Fr 8100]; Lot 85: Perronneau, enfant, 1744 [Fr 77,000]; Lot 86: Perronneau, Bastard [Fr 116,000]; Lot 87: Perronneau, jeune femme, 1749 [Fr 75,000]; Lot 88: Perronneau, Dutillieu [Fr 28,100]; Lot 89: Perronneau, Van Robais [Fr 87,000]; Lot 90: Perronneau [Glain], femme; Lot 91: Éc. fr. [Glain], femme
Dr Anton C. R. DREESMANN (1923-2000) was the third in a line of collectors that stretches back over a century. His grandfather Anton Dreesmann (1854-1934), co-founder of the Vroom & Dreesmann department stores (still the largest department store chain in The Netherlands), was a distinguished collector, while the Rijksmuseum acquired some pieces at the sale of his son Willem's collection in 1960. Although Anton was particularly interested in Dutch art, his collection was much broader, and was noted for its eclectic character. Among a significant holding of French drawings are several sheets by Lemoine and a pastel by La Tour. In addition to th e sale of old master pictures & drawings; portrait miniatures, gold boxes and objects of vertu on 11.IV.2002, sales of impressionist and modern art and of Eeuropean furniture, works of art and Chinese export porcelain took place on the preceding two days.
London, Christie's, 11.IV.2002:
Lot 634: La Tour, ?Fel
Carle DREYFUS (1875-1952), of 101 boulevard Malesherbes, Paris 8e, in 1922, youngest child of Gustave Dreyfus (1837-1914), the collector of Italian renaissance objects. He joined the Louvre in 1901 and rose to become conservateur en chef. He made extensive donations to various museums.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989; Collection Carle Dreyfus légué aux musées nationaux…, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins, 1953
Le comte DU BARY. Comte Jean du Barry was protector of the young Jeanne Bécu, who married his brother, comte Guillaume du Barry while she was Louis XV's mistress. It is unclear which of these was the vendor in the 1774 sale. Mme du Barry's own collections were dispersed in a number of sales, notably by Paillet, 17.II.1777 & seq.
Paris, Remy & Le Brun, 21.XI.1774 & seq.
Lot 134: [Anon.]: Deux petits tableaux, l'un peint à l'huile, l'autre au pastel, de forme ovale, ils représentent des fleurs dans des vases [21 livres]
Jean DUBOIS
Paris, 7.III.1901:
Lot 20: La Tour attr., femme
M. DUBOIS, marchand de tableaux.
Paris, 12.III.1782:
Lot 163: Hall, tête de jeune fille
DUCLERC, ancien gouverneur de l'Inde, commissionnaire général de la Marine, Dunkerque.
Vente p.m., Paris, 22-23.II.1847:
Lot 52: La Tour, inconnue
M. DUCLOS le jeune.
Vente p.m., Paris, Le Jeune, Le Brun, 2.IV.1792 & seq.:
Lot 167: Boucher, Trois Pastelles, dont deux sujets d'aprés F. Boucher, et un portrait. Le tout sous verre
DUCREUX, v. Mlle Gendron
Ernest-Ange DUEZ (1843-1896), peintre.
Vente p.m., Paris, 11-12.VI.1896
Lots 220, 221, 222: La Tour, inconnus
Leonard G. DUKE ( -1970), CBE, major collector of British drawings and watercolours, many sold at Sotheby's in five sales in 1970. A number are now in the Yale Center for British Art (q.v.)
Pastels: Gardner, Lady Minto; Mrs Mounsey; Greenhill, Charles II; Hamilton, clergyman; man; Hickey, J. Hickey; Hoppner, Issom; Lutterell, Butler; Richardson, J. Richardson, Jr; Russell, woman
Alexandre DUMAS (1824-1895), fils, de l'Académie française 1874; dramatist, author of La Dame aux camélias 1848, illegitimate son of the novelist of the same name (1802-1870). He owned pastels by Fragonard and La Tour.
Louis DUMOULIN, Paris art dealer.
Pastels: Capet, homme 1781; Davesne, Député; La Tour, Mlle Ferrand; Lenoir, Charton
Charles E. DUNLAP (1889-1966) of Philadelphia, nephew of the coal magnate Edward Berwind, under whose guidance (and that of Forsyth Wickes, q.v., a family friend) Dunlap developed an interest in French XVIIIe art. He was a generous donor to Harvard and the Fogg Art Museum; his gifts of some 50 French pictures included a Boucher portrait of Mme de Pompadour as well as some pastels by La Tour (auto; dame).
Lit.: Cambridge 2005
La marquise DU PLESSIS-BELLIÈRE, née Marie de Pastoret (1817-1897), of Paris and the château de Moreuil, Somme, daughter of Amédée-David, marquis de Pastoret (1791-1857), sénateur, a descendant of Rouillé de l'Étang.
Paris, Drouot, 10-11.V.1897:
Lot 155: Anon., femme; Lot 157: Greuze, attr., femme; Lot 162: La Tour, Mme Rouillé; 163: M. Rouillé; Lot 164: Jars, attr.; Léomenil, Pastoret
DURAND, frères ou Galant
Paris, Bonnefons, Henry, 8-9.XII.1817:
Lot 119: [Anon.] Portrait de femme représentée avec un chapelet à la main. [Miniatures, Gouaches, Pastels]
DURAND-RUEL & Cie, established c.1833 in Paris. Initially a stationery shop, the firm developed into art dealing from its practice of exchanging artists' materials for pictures. Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), the founder's son, was responsible for the firm's association with impressionism.
Sir Edward DURNING-LAWRENCE (1837-1914), politician and writer, with a particular interest in his proposition that Bacon was Shakespeare. Of a dozen pastels by Russell, several were donated to the NPG, London, and some to the V&A. One was inherited from his brother, Sir James Lawrence, Lord Mayor of London in 1868-69.
Francis DUROVERAY. Probably a relation of the English publisher F. J du Roveray (*. London c.1800).
Sale p.m., London, Christie's, 22-28.II.1850:
Lot 720: Lemoyne, Tête d'Hébé
Paul-Arnaud DUTASTA (1873-1925), ambassadeur de France à Berne 1918-20, secrétaire général de la conférence de la paix à Paris 1919.
Lit.: Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse
Paris, 3-4.VI.1926:
Lot 53: Boucher, jeune femme; Lot 65: La Tour, Mme Rouillé
DUVEEN Brothers, Inc., established in 1868 by Joel Duveen (1843-1908), and later run by his son, Joseph Duveen, Lord Duveen of Milbank (1869-1939). Lady Duveen had a pastel jeune femme attributed to Vigée Le Brun.
Pastels: Perronneau [Valade], Mrs Walpole
L.-G. D...
Lyon, Gachod, 15.IV.1872 & seq.:
Lots 203-206: La Tour, inconnus
Rev. Alexander DYCE (1798-1869) bequeathed more than 14,000 books, nearly 150 pictures and miniatures, and a large number of prints and drawings to the V&A in 1869.
Lit.: Handbook of the Dyce and Forster collections in the South Kensington Museum, London, 1880
Pastels: Greenhill, Bristol; Jackson, Cooper; Kneller, man; Lely, man
M. D... , d'Orléans
Paris, 13.IX.1855:
Lot 16: La Tour, inconnu
Mrs Augustus Van Horne ELLIS, née Anne Middleton (1859-1949): a donation to the New York Historical Society in 1940 included a pastel by Cotes (Rivington), while Dunlap's pastel of Washington, which had passed down in the Van Horne family, was given to the US Senate.
Theodore T. ( -1934) and Mary G. ELLIS of Worcester, Massachusetts: bequest to Worcester Art Museum, 1940. Ellis made his money in blanket manufacture, newspapers and printing; he was publisher of the Worcester Telegram and became co-owner of the Chicago Daily News in 1931. His art collection ranged from Winslow Homer to a painting once thought to be by Leonardo.
Pastels: Coypel, marquise de Lamure
Paul ENDEL:
Paris, Charpentier, 21.III.1958:
Lot 145: Boucher, jeune dormeuse; Lot 157: Greuze, homme
EPHRUSSI: a family of financiers from Odessa, whose fortune was made in grain in the first half of the 19th century. Charles Ephrussi (1849-1905), amateur art historian and collector, who came to Paris c.1871; where he lived at 11 avenue d'Iéna. He founded the Gazette des beaux-arts. His main interests were in Japanese prints and in contemporary French painting, but an essay on Dürer's drawings was also well received. Moving in the circles of Mme Émile Straus, Madeleine Lemaire and princesse Mathilde, he was considered to be a model for Proust's Swann. He never married, but had a liaison with Mme Cahen d'Anvers, née Louise de Morpurgo (1845-1926). His sister Betty married Maximilien Kann (1842-1901), and their daughter Fanny (1870-1917) married Theéodore Reinach (1860-1928); she inherited a Van Loo pastel from Charles's brother, Jules Ephrussi (1846-1915). Charles's uncles Michel (1845-1914) and Maurice (1849-1916) also lived in Paris. Mme Michel Ephrussi, who lived at 48, rue La Pérouse, Paris 8e, in 1922, owned two pastels by Mme Gault in 1920. Maurice married Béatrice de Rothschild (1864-1934); she built the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (v. Collections), which she bequeathed to the Institut de France.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
The first baron d'ERLANGER, Émile (1832-1911), a banker from Frankfurt, settled in Paris in 1858. He donated the Goya murals from la Quinta del Sordo to the Prado in 1881, and financed the first performance of Tannhäuser at the Paris Opéra. His four sons and their descendants included bankers, collectors, composers and painters. Emile Beaumont (1866-1939), banker and patron of the arts, adopted British nationality; he lived at 139 Piccadilly, Lord Byron's house, and Falconwood. Rodolphe (1872-1932), painter and composer, built a palace in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, now a museum for Arab musical instruments, inherited by his son Leo (1898-1978) and his wife Edwina Prue (1907-1994). Frédéric d'Erlanger joined his brothers Emile Beaumont and Rodolphe in presenting the Drouais portrait of the comte de Vaudreuil to the National Gallery in 1927; the sitter had owned the Vigée Le Brun pastel which belonged to Baron Leo, in 1909, owned a which passed to his sons, Leo and Gerald before its sale in 1946.
London, Knight Frank & Rutley, 25.III.1946:
Lot 29: Vigée Le Brun, duchesse de Guiche
M. ERNEST-MAY (1845-1925), banker and collector, 29 faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris 8e in 1922. He collected both Impressionists and old masters. His son Jacques Ernest-May (1885-1970) was also a banker and collector, lending a Berjon fillette to the Paris 1927a exhibition.
Lit.: Qui-êtes vous?, 1924; Gimpel 1963; Donateurs 1989
Paris, Drouot, 19.VI.1933
William ESDAILE (1758-1837), banker and collector of prints and drawings, London.
Lit.: Lugt 2617
London, Christie's, 25.VI.1840
Lot 1264: Lely, woman
Frédéric-Guillaume de Sahuguet-Damarzit, baron, dit comte d'ESPAGNAC (1750-1817), soldier and collector, emigrated to italy in 1791 with his son, the subject of a Vigée Le Brun painting now in the Wallace Collection.
Paris, Le Brun, 22.V.1793 & seq.
Charles Coypel
Lot 106: La France représentée par une femme assise et couronnée, tenant entre ses bras un enfant, tableau au pastel, sous glace. Haut. 18 pouc. larg. 13 pouc. [20 livres]
Lot 143: Un Christ mort, sur marbre noir, et un petit portrait de femme attribué à Rosalbe, [66 livres; Haslaver]
Rosalba Carriera
Lot 155: Une femme [?Felicità Sartori] de grandeur naturelle et vue à mi-corps dans un costume turc, tenant de la main gauche un masque noir. Ce morceau, du plus beau faire et du meilleur tems de Rosalba, est un de ses ouvrages les plus capitaux [250 livres; Le Brun]
Lot 156: Une jeune et jolie femme, blonde, vue en buste, la gorge en partie découverte, ayant dans les cheveux un bouquet de fleurs. Ce beau pastel est de la plus riche couleur et, de belle conservation. Haut. 16 pouces, larg. 14 p. Sous verre. [160 livres; Le Brun]
Hyacinthe-François-Joseph, comte d'ESPINOY (1764-1848), lieutenant-général, collector.
Vente p.m., Paris, 14.I.-9.II.1850:
Lot 924: La Tour, Voltaire
A. E. EVANS & Sons, London dealers who suplied a number of pastels (including the Lemoyne Tête d'Hébé) to the British Museum during the 19th century.
Dame Joan EVANS (1893-1977), mediaeval art historian, half-sister of the archaeologist Arthur Evans; gave a Russell pastel (The chalk writer) to the Courtauld.
James Oswald FAIRFAX (1933- ), collector, of Bowral, New South Wales. The eldest son of eldest son of Sir Warwick Fairfax, he was a director of John Fairfax and Sons Pty Ltd and of Assoicated Newspapers Ltd until 1987. He has donated old master paintings to the National Gallery of Australia and to the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Lit.: The James Fairfax collection of old master paintings, drawings and prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17.IV.-20.VII.2003. Cat. Richard Beresford & Peter Raissis
Pastels: Liotard, Countess of Northampton
FAMAS.
Paris, Dufresne, 19.XI.1772:
Lot 65: Une tête de femme en pastel, par M. Naudin; elle a de l'expression [...] elle est d'un joli ton de couleur [15 livres]
Lot 66: Une tête de femme vue de profil, dessin de feu M. Boucher, dans la manière du pastel [21 livres 10 sols]
Lot 67: [Anon.:] Un petit paysage de pastel à la gouasse [27 livres 9 sols]
Henry FATIO formed an important collection of manuscripts and incunabula, which was sold p.m. in Paris and Milan in 1932; his widow owned a Petitot pastel (femme). Edmond Fatio (1871-1959), of Geneva, architect, historian and collector, particularly of baroque drawings. Principal sale, Geneva, Nicolas Rauch, 3-4.VI.1959; the sheets bear a collector's mark not in Lugt. He owned a pastel by Petitot (Lierre).
William FAUQUIER (1708-1788), financier and collector.
Lit.: Ingamells 1997
=?Mr Fauquier, Anonymous sale, London, 12.IV.1758
Lot 52: Rosalba, Two of Diana's nymphs [22 gns; Lord Anson]
Sir Everard FAWKENER (1694-1758), British ambassador in Constantinople 1735-42, patron and collector of Liotard.
Sale p.m., London, Ford, 27.V.1759:
Liotard, in a frame and glass: Lot 15: A gentleman's portrait from life; 16. Capt. Townshend; 26: A Turkish lady small whole length;
27: Liotard the painter; 35: Mr Nelthrop in a Turkish habit; 36: Lord Sandwich; 44: A Russian general from the life; 45: Its companion;
46: The famous Count Bonneval; 57: A Turkish lady and her slave small whole lengths; 58: A Turkish Janisary and other figures.
Léon-Guillaume du Tillot, marquis de FELINO (1711-1774), politician, prime minister of the Duchy of Parma, founder of the academy of painting and the museum, moderniser before his disgrace in 1771.
Vente p.m.: Paris, Guilleaumon, Paillet, 27.III.1775:
Lot 133: [Anon.]: Douze différens Portraits qui seront divisés, partie sont sous glace, les autres verre blanc, avec bordures dorées. [Pastel]
Mrs Daisy FELLOWES, née Marguérite-Séverine-Philippine Decazes (1890-1962), daughter of the duc Decazes (q.v.). After the suicide of her mother, Isabelle-Blanche Singer, she was brought up by her aunt, Winnaretta Singer, princesse Edmond de Polignac (q.v.). In 1910 she married Jean, prince de Broglie (1886-1918); there were three daughters (the comtesse de Castéja, the marquise de La Moussaye and Mrs Alfred Kraus). Soon after his death, she married (1919) the Hon. Reginald Ailwyn Fellowes (1884-1953), younger son of the 2nd Baron de Ramsay, a banker. Daisy Fellowes wrote several novels, of which Les Dimanches de la comtesse de Narbonne is best known. She became celebrated as a fashion icon (for designers such as Chanel and Schiaperelli; Cecil Beaton photographed her) and as wealthy hostess in her palace Les Zoraides in Cap Martin in the South of France. Among her celebrated purchases was the Tête de Bélier pink diamond from Cartier, originally a gift from Catherine the Great to Prince Potemkin, which she had reset. Her name was linked with the Prince of Wales before that of Mrs Simpson. Three Perronneau pastels were included in the 1937 sale.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Ader, 24-25.V.1935:
Perronneau, Lot 41: Luckner; Lot 42: dame; Lot 43: Dumas
Other pastels: La Tour, Philippe
Edmond Gustave Frisch, comte de FELS (1858-1951), diplomat and author, of Swedish origin, married Jeanne Lebaudy ( -1943) and inherited the Lebaudy sugar fortune. They entertained at 135, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. In 1892 they acquired the château de Voisins, which they rebuilt. De Fels also owned the Revue de Paris. Their daughter Edmée (1895-1991), who inherited the Ducreux, married the duc de La Rochefoucauld.
Pastels: Ducreux, Marie-Antoinette; La Tour, Mlle Fel
Maurice FENAILLE (1855-1937), de l'Institut, industrialist, art collector and patron, author of monographs on Debucourt, the Gobelins and Jules Guiffrey.
Pastels: Debucourt, sa femme; Valade, Mme Coustard; femme
Thomas Fitzroy Philipps FENWICK (1856-1938), grandson of the celebrated collector Sir Thomas Philipps, Bt.
Pastels: Lutterell, man 1694
Jules FÉRAL, expert and dealer,7 rue Saint-Georges, Paris 9e, son of the painter Eugène Féral.
Paris, 17.XII.1949
Maurice (1873-1968) & Pauline ( -1934) FEUILLET DE BORSAT.
Lit.: Simone Bourlard-Collin, Donation Feuillet de Borsat, musée Borély, Marseille, Marseille, n.d.; Marseille 2001
Pastels: Garemijn, garçon; Dutch sch., Jordaens; Éc. fr., 2
Mme Hugo FINALY, née Jenny Ellenberger ( -1938), married the Hungarian banker Hugo Finaly in 1870; correspondent of Proust; she inherited the important library of her uncle, baron Horace Landau (1824-1903). She owned La Tour's Lady Coventry.
Donato FINI. His inventory (Rome, 10.VII.1692) included a pastel copy after Mola.
Firmin-Didot, v. Didot
Eugène FISCHHOF [Fischof, Fischhoff], Paris, horse breeder and art dealer. His wife Emma was the daughter of the art dealer Charles Sedelmeyer, and Fischhof became the New York representative of Sedelmeyer & Cie; his gallery was in Astor Court, New York. In 1900 he was appointed by Emperor Franz Josef chief commissioner for the fine arts in Austria. From 1890 Emma was linked with the society gynaecologist Samuel Jean Pozzi.
New York, Waldorf-Astoria, Silo, 23-24.II.1906:
Gainsborough, Queen Charlotte
New York, Waldorf-Astoria, Silo, 22-23.II.1907:
Lot 48: La Tour, comtesse de Montaigu
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreuil & Baudoin, 14.VI.1913:
Lot 12: Russell, Emily de Vismes; Lot 13: Russell, Phillip Serle; Lot 71: Carriera, JF [Elisabeth Farnese]
Joseph Henry FITZHENRY ( -1913), dealer and collector, of 12 Thurloe Place, London. He advised J. P. Morgan on French porcelain and gave works of Romanesque and Gothic sculpture to V&A 1906-10. He lent pastels to the Paris 1911 exhibition.
London, Christie's, 18 -26.XI.1913
Paris, Drouot, Lair-Dubreil, 18-21.II.1914
Other pastels: Cotes, man 1747
François FLAMENG (1856-1923), painter and engraver. A major sale took place in 1919 after the death of his wife.
Lit.: Charles Saunier, "La collection François Flameng", Les Arts, 165, 1918, p. 2; Chardin 1979; Donateurs 1989; Grove 1996
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreil, 26-27.V.1919:
Lot 3: Boze, duc d'Enghien; Lot 27: La Tour, auto
Baron André de FLEURY, 1 rue de Pomereu, Paris 16e in 1922.
?Paris, Drouot, 23-24.X.1941
Pastels: Ducreux, autoportrait
Ethel FLOERSHEIM: a group of French and English pictures (including pastels by Bernard and Hamilton) were sold in a group sale, London, Christie's, 23.VI.1950. Some miniatures were sold in the following days.
Paul FLURY-HÉRARD (1836-1913), banquier, consul général of Japan in Paris in 1866.
Lit.: Lugt 1015; Claude Hamon, Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931), bâtisseur du capitalisme japonais, 2007, with portrait
Vente p.m., Paris, Drouot, 17-19.XI.1919:
Lot 45: Ducreux, Robespierre
Ch. FORGET.
Paris, 17-19.III.1873:
Lots 381-383: La Tour, inconnus
Francis Hyde FORSHALL, forensic surgeon, 12 Southwood Lane, Highgate, son of the secretary of the British Museum, Dr Johsua Forshall; owned several Russell pastels in 1894.
Mme A. FOUCAULT (B&W) or FLORENT (Lugt).
Paris, Drouot, Baudoin, 10-15.V.1909:
Lot 675: La Tour
André FOULON DE VAULX (1873-1951), poet, who also wrote about Vestier and Boze. His bequest to the musée des Beaux-Arts at Tours included pastels by Hoin and La Tour.
Lit.: Boris Lossky, "Le Legs Foulon de Vaux", Revue des arts, 1954
Pastels: Chardin, garçon; fillette; Coypel, auto; Hoin, femme; La Tour, Voltaire
Paul FOURCHÉ (1840-1922), a merchant from Orléans, based in Bordeaux, made a major donation in 1907 to the musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans. A separate museum was built in 1908 to house his collection but was destroyed during the second world war.
Lit.: Klinka-Ballesteros 2005
Pastels: Boze, homme; Greuze, jeune fille; Lenoir, femme; Regnault-Delalande, homme; Vigée, Ballias; Vivien, homme; Éc. fr., inconnues (2)
Le marquis de FOURQUEVAUX: a large collection of drawings and prints, mainly of the French school, was sold after his death in two sales. He was descended from Baseile, marquis de Fourquevaux, associé de l'Académie de Toulouse, whose collection was preserved for more than a century in his château.
Lit.: Mesuret 1972, no. 1760
Paris, Drouot, Delastre, 18-20.IV.1876
Paris, 15-16.XII.1876
Mrs Thelma Chrysler FOY, New York and Locust Valley, Long Island; accumulated a large collection of eighteenth century and modern French works of art, including two La Tour pastels that belonged to D. David-Weill sold in her posthumous sale
New York, Parke-Bernet, 22-23.V.1959:
Lot 633: La Tour, autoportrait; Lot 634: La Tour, ??Mme Dangeville
L. FRANC: a large collection of miniatures, objets d'art etc., dispersed over six sales.
Paris, 22-24.XII.1881:
Lot 103: La Tour, princesse
Raimondo, barone FRANCHETTI (1829-1905) married Sara Luisa von Rothschild. Their son Giorgio Gioacchino (1865-1922) purchased the Ca' d'Oro from the Contarini family in 1894 but bequeathed it to the State in 1914 together with part of his collection.
Paris, 8-9.III.1894:
Lot 174: La Tour attr., dessin
René FRIBOURG (1880-1963) of 11 East 84th Street, New York, businessman. Born in Belgium, he developed the family grain business founded in 1813 from a domestic Belgian activity into a multinational conglomerate by opening an office in Chicago in 1921. The Continental Grain Company remains one of the largest private companies in the world. Fribourg adopted US citizenship, and devoted part of his wealth to his collection of European and Chinese porcelain and faience, paintings, drawings, boxes, objets d'art and furniture. He was treasurer of the American Friends of Versailles in 1955. His estate sale took place in eight sessions.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Sale p.m., London, Sotheby's, 16.X.1963
Lot 611: La Tour, Pommyer; Lot 613: Vigée, jeune fille; Lot 132, Vigée Le Brun, jeune dame
Other pastels: Boucher, La bouquetière
Henry Clay FRICK (1849-1919), industrialist, art collector and philanthropist. His daughter Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984) was a trustee of the Frick Collection and supported the Frick Art Reference Library.
Lit.: American national biography; Galassi 2000; Rieder 2000
Pastels: v. Collections, New York, Frick
v.q. Jacobs
FRIEDRICH der Große (1712-1786), king, collector and amateur pastellist.
Dictionary, artists
FRIEDRICH AUGUST II. (III.) Kurfürst von Sachsen, König August III. von Polen 1733 (1696-1763). The enthusiasm of the king for the pastels of Rosalba Carriera is well known, and the gallery in Dresden in which some 157 of her pastels were at one stage hung is justly celebrated. Such was August's enthusiasm that he pursuaded Mengs to work in pastel to produce an important series of portraits. The collection also has examples by La Tour and Liotard (v. Collections, Dresden for those remaining in Dresden).
Dictionary, genealogy Sachsen
Lit.: Virginie Spenlé, "Les achats de peinttures d'August III sur le marché de l'art parisien", Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 2003, pp. 93-133; Marandet 2008
Pastels: Carriera
Ferdinand Hibon, comte de FROHEN (1807-1892), married in 1846 the duchesse de Brancas and adopted her titles. His son Henri-Marie-Désiré-Ferdinand, comte de Frohen (1852-1897) became duc de Brancas after the extinction of the last male heir in the Brancas-Villars family.
Paris, Delestre, 19.II.1887:
La Tour, Lot 3: Löwendal; Lot 4: duchesse de Nivernais
FROST & REED, dealers in nineteenth century and contemporary art for some 200 years, initially in Bristol, then in London and elsewhere. They have also handled pastels by Carriera, Cotes, Russell and Sharples.
Mme FUCHS.
Copenhagen, 28.III.1798 & seq.
Lot 86: Georg Mathias Fuchs: Et Fruentimmer forestillende Poesien, malet i Pastel af Fuchs, med Glas og Ramme, 9 1/2 Tommer höi, 7 1/2 Tommer bred
Cavaliere Francesco Maria Niccolò GABBURRI (1676-1742), Florentine diplomat, amateur artist, art historian and collector.
His Vite di pittori, a manuscript in the Palatine library compiled during the last twelve years of his life, is an invaluable source of
information about artists in Florence as well as foreign connoisseurs. It has been made available online by the Fondazione Memofonte. Gabburri
lent 205 drawings to the Florence exhibition of 1737, including some twenty pastel self-portraits mainly by contemporary Italian artists.
Caution is required: some of these artists seem to have worked in gouache rather than pastel, and the descriptions may be unreliable.
Lit.: Turner 1993
18th century inv.:
Pastels: Antiquus; Baldacci; Betti (2); Campiglia; Carriera (3); Casini; Conca; Conti; Correggio; Ferretti; Grisoni; Liotard;
Martin; F. Messini; G. Messini (2); Pavona; Pitti; Pucci; Sirani; Siries; Soderini; Wills
Émile-Louis GALICHON (1829-1875), editor of the Gazette des beaux-arts.
Lit.: Lugt 1058; Donateurs 1989
GALITZIN: A group of family portraits were seized in 1918, and are now in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow (q.v.). Prince Paul Galitzine, premier secrétaire de la légation de Russie, had a sale in Brussels (Le Roy, 17-20.I.1870) with a La Tour (Rigaud; ?).
Dictionary, genealogy
La marquise de GANAY, née Emily Ridgway (1838-1921), organised the exhibition of Cent pastels in Paris in 1908. Her younger son comte André sold a Vivien on his father's death in 1903; a further anonymous sale in 1907 was on his and his mother's behalf, while her estate sale took place in 1922. The elder son Charles-Anne-Jean, marquis de Ganay (1861-1948) married Marie-Julie-Pamphile-Berthe de Béhague (1868-1940), sister of the comtesse de Béhague (q.v.), whose collection also descended to the next marquis de Ganay, Hubert (1888-1974). The collection included drawings by Leonardo and a Hubert Robert sketchbook sold by Sotheby's in 1990. A sale of antiquitiies and objets d'art from the comtesse de Béhague's collection was also sold in Monaco (Sotheby's, 15.XII.1987).
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Dreyfus 1909; Gimpel 1963; Donateurs 1989; Rieder 2000
Paris, Drouot, 4.VI.1903:
Lot 63: Glain, femme; Lot 65: La Tour [Éc. fr.], du Barry; Lot 71: Vivien, auto
Amsterdam, 4.iv.1906
Paris, Drouot 1, Chevalier, Féral, 16.IV.1907:
Lot 36: La Tour; Lot 38: Vigée Le Brun; Lot 50, Perronneau; Lot 63, Vigée
Paris, Georges Petit, 8-10.V.1922:
Lot 13: Carriera, jeune femme; Lot 14: F.-H. Drouais [anon.], jeune femme; Lot 16: [La Tour?] Anon., femme; Lot 24: La Tour, Mme de Pompadour en bergère, repr.; Lot 25: La Tour, La comtesse de X…; Lot 26: La Tour, auto, repr.
Other pastels: Ducreux, auto; Lenoir, Dame en rose
Edgar William GARBISCH (1899-1979), American footballer and engineer, and his wife (8 1930) Bernice Chrysler (1907-1979), daughter of the founder of the Chrysler Motor Company: collectors of American naïve paintings. Their extensive collection was partly dispersed at auction and partly donated to museums.
Lit.: G. C. Wertkin, Encyclopedia of American folk art, 2004; American Naive Paintings from the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Collection, exh., Washington, NGA, 3.VI.2001 - 10.II.2002
Pastels: Perkins, Alpheus & Mehitable Hatch
GARNIER-HELDEWIER, ministre plénipotentiaire du roi des Belges, 9 rue d'Artois, Paris.
Vente p.m., Paris, Drouot, Lair-Dubreuil, 10-11.VI.1925:
Lot 67: Éc. fr., femme; Lot 139: Lambert, femme; Lot 141: La Tour, Manelli; Lot 146: Liotard, Le galant buveur;
le cavalier amoureux; Lot 165: éc. de Prud'hon, Mlle George
Raphaël GARRETA (1851-1930), a businessman from Rouen, adjoint au maire 1886-88 and 1900-02, directeur du musée d'Antiquités de Rouen. He was a celebrated collector of antiquities; a member of the Commission départementale des antiquités from 1887, and of the Comité de la Société de l'histoire du Protestantisme français; and vice-président de la Société rouennaise des bibliophiles.
Vente p.m., Rouen, Hôtel des ventes, 16-17.III.1931:
Lots 65-70: Éc. fr., inconnues; Lot 124: Labille-Guiard, homme 1776
Gas, v. Degas
Alphonse GATINEAU, printer, bookseller and publisher in Orléans, made a donation to the musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans in 1877.
Pastels: Perronneau, Robbé de Beauveset; Mme Cadet en Aurore
Lit.: Klinka-Ballesteros 2005
Mme GAUCHEZ.
Paris, 20-23.IV.1892:
Pastels by Capet, Vigée Le Brun and Vivien
Pierre-Marie GAULT DE SAINT-GERMAIN (1754-1842), pastellist .
Dictionary, artists
Paris, 19-20.III.1839
M. GAUTIER, secrétaire du roi
Paris, 6 .IV.1759 & seq.:
Lot 9: Un Portrait en Pastel, de dix-neuf pouces de haut sur seize pouces & demi de large, par Boucher.
Walter GAY (1856-1937), American artist living in Paris, specialising in interiors. He lent a La Tour inconnu to the Paris 1927a exhibition which his widow, née Matilda Travers (1855-1943), subsequently donated to the Louvre along with a large collection of drawings including French XVIIIe as well as Dutch and other schools.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989; Rieder 2000
Pierre GEISMAR, paper manufacturer, Paris.
Lit.: Lugt 2078b
Paris, Drouot, 15.XI.1928:
Lot 56: Coypel, attr., jeune fille tenant un masque
Mlle GENDRON, Joseph Ducreux's great-granddaughter.
Paris, 16-17.I.1865:
Pastels by Greuze, La Tour and Ducreux
Edmé-François GERSAINT (1694-1750): Paris art dealer, publisher and auctioneer, associated in particular with Watteau.
Lit.: Watteau 1984; Grove; Guillaume Glorieux, "Edme-Francois Gersaint", thèse, Universite Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2000; Glorieux 2002; Marandet 2003a
Claude-Joseph GEOFFROY (1685-1752), de l'Académie royale des sciences, FRS, pharmacist, botanist and chemist, whose research focused on essential oils in plants. His son was Claude-François Geoffroy (1729-1753), also a pharmacist and chemist and member of the Académie des sciences; he demonstrated that bismuth was distinct from lead. The 1754 sale was of their joint estate.
Vente p.m., Paris, 5-16.II.1754:
Lot 69: Coypel, Un Tableau représentant Apollon, comme Dieu de la Médecine, peint en Pastel par Coypel, sous une Glace & dans un Cadre doré, 34 livres 10 sols
François-Joachim-Bernard Potier, duc de GESVRES (1692-1757). A number of pastels by both Mérelles decorated the château de Saint-Ouen in 1752.
Dictionary, genealogy Potier
Jean-Baptiste Guillaume, abbé de GEVIGNEY (1729-1802), garde des titres et généalogies de la bibliothèque du roi. He acquired a taste for old documents in his native Besançon, where he assisted his father in arranging the city archives. Large numbers of these documents were stolen and sold to fund his art collection. In 1761 he moved to Paris, where, with the support of Saint-Florentin's mistress, Mme Sabatin, he managed to secure a position at the bibliothèque du roi, of which he was made keeper in 1779. His thefts came to light by an anonymous denunciation, and he was forced to resign in 1784. Some of the documents he sold are now in the Bodleian Library.
Lit.: DBF; Jean-Philippe Gérard, "Les gardes du département des Titres…", BnF dossier, 2005
Paris, Paillet, 1-29.XII.1779:
Lot 764: Hall, jeune fille
Jean GIGOUX (1806-1894), peintre.
Lit.: Lugt 1164
Paris, 20-22.I.1873:
Lots 184, 185: La Tour, inconnusParis, Drouot, Féral, 20-23.III.1882.
Other pastels: La Tour, Louis le dauphin
Louis GILLET (1876-1943), de l'Académie française, art historian et writer, conservateur du château de Châalis; 32 boulevard Henri IV, Paris 4e in 1922.
Michael GILLINGHAM (1933-1999), CBE, of 4 Fournier Street, Spittalfields, collector with interests ranging from furniture and English church organs to oriental ceramics.
London, Sotheby's, 19.IV.2000:
Lot 219: Downman, Rev. Matthews; Lot 221: Hamilton, Lady Tyrconnel
René GIMPEL (1881-1945), the son of an Alsacian art dealer Ernest Gimpel (1858-1907), who opened a gallery in Paris in 1889 and in New York in 1902; associated with Nathan Wildenstein between 1889 and 1919; brother-in-law of Joseph Duveen. His diary, from 1918 to 1939, provides much valuable information about the art market between the wars. His gallery was at 57, rue La Boétie, and his residence 19 rue Spontini, Paris 16e.
Marchese Marzio GINETTI, Rome
Inv. 14.X.1707
Pastels: Reni, figura; testa
Eugène GIRAUD (1806-1881), peintre-graveur: his sale inclued over 3000 drawings.
Vente p.m., Paris, 9-13.II.1886:
Lot 208: La Tour, inconnu
GIRAULT, Versailles.
Paris, Chariot, Joullain, 20.III.1776 & seq.
Lot 54: Le Portrait de Rembrandt, d'après lui-même; il est coëffé d'une tocque & vû de face, de grandeur naturelle. Tableau peint au pastel. Hauteur 20 pouces, largeur 15 pouces 6 lignes [4 livres 10 sols]
André GIROUX (1801-1879), artiste-peintre.
Paris, 18-19.IV.1904:
Lot 264: 6 pstls a/r La Tour et Nattier
J. GLEN, London dealer in pictures and drawings; lent pastels by Gainsborough Dupont and Raeburn [Hodges] to the Paris 1911 exhibition; acquired a Russell (Blackburn) in 1927.
Jean-Baptiste GLOMY (1711-1786): Paris art dealer and auctioneer, active from c.1750, associated with Gersaint, Remy and Helle.
Lit.: Marandet 2003a
Ferdinand-Joseph GODEFROID ( -1741), peintre du prince de Carignan, picture dealer and restorer to the royal collection, partner of Charles Godefroy (q.v.), killed in a duel by Jérôme-François Chantereau over a disputed picture; his widow (∞1726), née Marie-Jeanne Van Merle ( -1764) took over his business with François-Louis Colins (1699-1760), a picture dealer from Brussels. Valade exhibited her portrait in the salon de 1755.
Lit.: Marandet 2003a; Marandet 2008
Charles GODEFROY ( -1748), his two sons Charles-Théodose (1718-1796) and Auguste-Gabriel (1728-1813), patrons of Chardin. Godefroy was a partner of the restorer Godefroy (q.v.).
Lit.: Chardin 1979; Marandet 2003; Marandet 2008
Edmé-Étienne-François GOIS (1765-1836), sculpteur.
Paris, 2.IV.1838
Lot 22: La Tour, portrait
GOLDSCHMIDT: There were a number of collectors or dealers of this name. The Galerie Goldschmidt-Wallerstein in Berlin specialised in modern art c.1900; they held an exhibition on Pesne in 1926, and the New York gallery (730 Fifth Ave) owned a Liotard homme in 1934. Edmond Goldschmidt owned a version of La Tour's Perrinet de Jars before 1901.Paul Goldschmidt had a Carriera (contessa Miari) after 1908.
Jules (1830-1870) and Edmond (1822-1896) Huot de GONCOURT: authors, amateur artists, collectors and art crtics. Their writings (notably L'Art du xviiie siècle, 1859-75) made a major contribution to restoring the reputation of the French eighteenth-century painters and draughtsmen. Their extensive collections were dispersed in several sessions in 1897, including old (26-28.IV.1897) and modern (30.IV.-1.V.1897) prints, as well as their drawings collection (15-17.II.1897), carefully reconstructed in Launay 1991. It is perhaps surprising that, apart from a handful of drawings with pastel and some La Tour préparations, this contained only two pastel portraits, the La Tour maréchale de Belle-Isle and a Vigée Le Brun (Beaujon) which the Goncourts attributed to Perronneau.
Lit.: Lugt 1089; Launay 1991
Paris, Drouot, Georges Duchesne, 15-17.II.1897:
Lot 128: Huet, bergère [Fr3050, Mme Benard]
La Tour
Lot 153: femme vue de face, à mi-corps [Mme de Belle-Isle; Fr4200; Thibault]
Lot 154: masque [Fr11,100, Isaac de Camondo]
Lot 155: tête de femme [??Mme de Pomadour, Fr3200; Bourdariat, pour le comte Greffulhe]
Lot 156: Mlle Dangeville [Fr8100, Isaac de Camondo]
Lot 157: tête d'homme [Dumont le romain, Fr2100; Paulme]
Lot 232: Perronneau [Vigée Le Brun], Goyon de Vaudurant [Beaujon]
Lot 330/331: Van Loo, 2 têtes de fillettes [Fr500, comtesse de Péthion]
Lot 377: Aubert, études
Gonzaga, v. Valenti
Jacques GOUDSTIKKER (1897-1940), one of the most important dealers in Dutch old master paintings before World War II. His collection of more than 1000 pictures was seized by the Germans. Some 200 were finally returned to the family in 2006; many of these were sold in New York, Christie's, 19.IV.2007. The firm had also handled pastels by Drouais, Carriera and Troost.
L'abbé Louis GOUGENOT ( -1767), prieur de Maintenay, associé libre de l'Académie royale de peinture 1756; salon critic.
Lit.: Gazette des beaux-arts, .VII.-.VIII.1999
François-Louis GOUNOD (1758-1823), artist and collector, father of the composer, pupil of Lépicié. Two of the Chardin pastels he owned came from the Sylvestre collection. The status of the 59 La Tour sheets in the sale cannot be determined.
Dictionary, artists
Lit.: Chardin 1979; RdL 1946
Vente p.m. Paris, Hôtel de Bullion, 23.II.1824
Lot 2: Chardin, autoportrait & sa femme [R&T 194, 198]; Lot 6: La Tour, 23 pastels; Lot 29: La Tour, 36 dessins
Joseph-François de GOUNON (1724-1802), secrétaire du roi, associé de l'Académie de Toulouse 1784, sgr de Loubens 1768, capitoul de Toulouse, lender
to Salons de Toulouse in 1769 (pastel by Antoine Coypel) and 1779 (the posthumous portrait of his wife en Savoyarde by Valade);
father of the pastellists Jean-Mathieu (whose own collection was dispersed after his death in 1825) and probably Jonquiérette Gounon de Loubens (qq.v.).
Dictionary, genealogy
Lord Ronald Charles Leveson-GOWER (1845-1916), v. Lenoir.
Albert GRAND ( -1876), painter, expert and restorer. He owned a pastel auotportrait which he attributed to Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine, in fact by a homonym (probably Jacques-Manuel Lemoine, q.v.), but his 1866 communication sparked a debate that lead to the rediscovery of J.-A.-M. Lemoine's œuvre.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989; Jeffares 1999
Paris, 20-24.XI.1876:
p. 150: La Tour attr., homme
Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron GRANTHAM 1761 (1695-1770), KB 1742, diplomat, in Vienna 1730-48. He was portrayed by artists from Mengs to Ramsay, and his collection also included pastels of the imperial couple. Later generations owned portraits by Gardner.
Dictionary, genealogy, Robinson
Pastels: Liotard, Franz I.; Maria Theresia; Ramsay, Sir Thomas & Lady Robinson; Anon., Sir Thomas & Lady Robinson
Henry GRAVES (1806-1892) founded the publishing house and art dealers Henry Graves and Co., which was continued aftr his death by his son Algernon Graves (1845-1922), compiler of numerous reference works on exhibitions and sales. The firm handled a pastel by Russell (Love songs and matches).
De GRAVELLE.
Paris, 26.II.-3.III.1753:
Lot 213: [Anon:] Une belle Vierge, au Pastel, montée idem. [en bordure dorée, & verre blanc] [retiré]
Hubert-François GRAVELOT (1699-1773), dessinateur, professeur des ingénieurs du roi. The French artist was largely responsible for introducing the French rococo style and finesse to England during his 1732-48 stay.
Vente p.m., Paris, Basan, 19.V.1773 & seq.
Lot 7: [Anon.]: Plusieurs têtes au pastel, & autres dessins encadrés. [15 livres 14 sols]
Edward Belden GREENE (1878–1957), chairman of the Cleveland Trust Company, banker, industrialist and collector. He donated
his important collection of miniatures, as well as drawings and prints, including a few pastels, to Cleveland, of which he was a trustee from 1925, and Yale, from which he graduated in 1900.
Pastels: Allais, actrice; Cotes, Lady Mary Eyre; Vivien, homme; Éc. fr., homme
Henri-Jules-Charles-Emmanuel, comte de GREFFULHE (1848-1932), of the Belgian family of bankers, married Elisabeth, princesse de Caraman-Chimay (1860-1952), patron of the artists from Whistler and Rodin to Fauré and Diaghilev, cousin of Robert de Montesquiou and a model for the duchesse de Guermantes. The comte acquired a version of La Tour's préparation of Mme de Pompadour at the Goncourt sale.
Eugène GRÉSY (1806-1867), historian and archaeologist, from Melun.
Paris, 2.III.1853:
Mme Cabart, 3 pastels
A. GREVERATH, chef d'escadron; his posthumous sale included 390 lots of drawings.
Vente p.m., Paris, Delbergue, 7-10.IV.1856:
Lot 320: La Tour, inconnu
Friedrich Melchior Baron von GRIMM (1723-1807), diplomat, writer, art critic and agent. He was in Paris from 1749 to around 1768 (travelling widely thereafter before settling in Gotha in 1775). He was closely connected with the Encyclopédistes, and his Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique, a bi-monthly bulletin which included his (and Diderot's) views on contemporary art, was circulated among a number of courts in Germany, Poland and Sweden. His trip to Russia in 1773 was similarly influential in spreading French artistic ideas.
Laurent GRIMOD de la Réynière (1733-1793)
Dictionary, artists and genealogy, Grimod
Lit.: Bailey 2002
Vente p.m., Paris, Paillet, 4 fructidor an VI [21.VII.1797; resumed 7-17.IX.1797]
Tableaux au Pastel par feu M. La Reynière:
Lot 25: Un grand tableau peint au pastel & sous verre, représentant un Berger; copie d'après Ant. Van Dick
Lot 26: Un autre tableau, copie d'après Greuze, représentant un enfant connu sous le titre de la jeune Fille au chien
Lot 27: Un jeune Ecolier, copie d'après le même, morceau également au pastel & sous verre
Lot 28: Deux autres Portraits d'après Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
Lot 29: Deux différentes Têtes au pastel, d'après Greuze, dont la jeune Fille au bonnet rond
Lot 30: Un autre de forme ovale; sujet d'un enfant nud, d'après Rubens
Lot 31: Deux petits tableaux au pastel, sujets de Philosophes, copies d'après Rembrandt
Lot 32: Un sujet de Ste. Famille, d'après le même
Lot 33: Trois autres, différens sujets d'Intérieur, d'après G. Dow
Lot 34: Un autre, d'après Watteau, sujet de Cassandre, & autres figures de caractère
Lot 35: Deux autres petits tableaux, sujets de Paysages & Animaux, d'après Desportes
Lot 36: Cinq autres Pastels, différentes Têtes de fantaisie & portraits, dont trois d'après Fr. Boucher
Lot 37: Un Buste de femme, coëffée de feuillages, d'après Lagrenée l'aîné
Lot 38: Une jeune Fille tenant des fruits, d'après Bachelier
Lot 39: Deux Têtes de vieillards de différens caractères
Lot 40: Deux autres Pastels, sujets de Dénicheurs d'oiseaux, d'après Boucher
Lot 41: Un autre d'après le même, sujet de deux Amours
Lot 42: Cinq petits Portraits ovals, au pastel, Racine, Le Brun, Catinat, & autres
Lot 43: Un Portrait d'enfant, aussi au pastel
Pierre-Marie-Gaspard GRIMOD D'ORSAY, comte d'Orsay (1748-1809), nephew of Grimod de La Réynière (q.v.), travelled to Italy in 1775 where he formed a collection of antiquities; on his return to Paris he continued to collect old and modern pictures of all schools. His collection was seized during the Revolution and is now in the Louvre (v. Collections). It includes pastels by Boucher, Gandolfi, Greuze, Saint-Michel, Valade and Vleughels, as well as several anonymes.
Dictionary, genealogy, Grimod
Lit.: Paris 1983b; Grove 1996; Bailey 2002
Émile GROSJEAN-MAUPIN (1863-1933), author of an Esperanto dictionary. He owned pastels by Nanteuil (Gallais) and Pillement (deux paysages) in 1927.
Émile GROSS (fl.1912-27), collector, acquired some English pastels together with Xavier Haas and a Signor Salvator. A number of these were sold in 1927.
New York, Anderson, 13-14.I.1927, English 18th century drawings and pastels.
New York, Anderson, 20-21.I.1927:
Lot 53: Cotes, Mrs Ryves; Lot 75: Hoare, Miss Simpson; Lot 115: Read, lady
Other pastels: Hamilton, Hamilton
Camille GROULT (1837-1908), heir to a flour-milling family from Vitry-sur-Seine, was renowned as the great amateur of the
19th century; a friend of Edmond de Goncourt, with whom "nous causons art, et cette causerie lui apporte une griserie, vraiment une
sorte de pochardise […]" (Journal, 8.I.1890). Showing friends a picture for which he had paid the high price for which he had a reputation,
he remarked "Je donnerais cinquante mille francs de plus pour l'avoir découvert pour cent francs." His initial focus on XVIIIe
pastels and drawings was later broadened to the early nineteenth century, and spread to English art. He married Alice Emilie Thomas Tassin de
Moncourt (1837-1918), of Olivet, Loiret, who was related to a number of Perronneau's subjects.
Their son Jean Groult (1868-1951) inherited the collection, which then passed to their grandson Pierre Bordeaux-Groult.
Lit.: Seligman 1961; Gimpel 1963; Grove 1996; Donateurs 1989; Rosenberg 2007
Paris, Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreuil & Baudoin, 21-22.VI.1920 :
Lot 1: Bernard, femme; Lot 2: Drouais, éc., femme; Lot 3: Anon., femme; Lot 4: femme, sd 1780; Lot 5: homme; Lot 6: femme [Ducreux, Marie-Antoinette]; Lot 7: homme; Lot 8: enfant; Lot 9: enfant; Lot 10: enfant; Lot 11: femme; Lot 12: femme; Lot 13: femme; Lot 14: artiste; Lot 15: d'après Fragonard, jeune mère; Lot 16: femme; Lot 17: Labille-Guiard, femme; Lots 18, 19, 20: La Tour, inconnues; Lot 21: Liotard, femme; Lot 22: homme; Lot 23: Nattier éc., femme; Lot 24: femme; Lot 25: Perronneau, Miron; Lot 25: Mme Miron; Lot 27, femme; Lot 28: femme 1766; Lot 29: femme; Lot 30: femme sd 1780; Lot 31: femme, sd 1770; Lot 32: femme en Diane, sd 1760; Lot 33: femme sd 1770; Lot 34: Mme Roslin attr., femme; Lot 35: Valade, femme; Lot 36: Vigée, homme
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Ader Laurin, 21.III.1952:
Lot 64: Chardin, autoportrait; Lot 65: Greuze, jeune femme; Lot 66: La Tour, dame en rose [B&W 612]; Lot 67: La Tour, auto [B&W 239]; Lot 68: Perronneau, homme 1748; Lot 69: Perronneau, homme en habit rose 1756; Lot 70: Russell, Penthièvre; Lot 71: Siccardi, acteur
F. GUEY, Rouen: owned pastels by Bernard (homme; & femme) and Lenoir (M. & Mme Pasquier) which were lent to the Paris 1927a exhibition.
Jules-Joseph GUIFFREY (1840-1918), art historian, conservateur at the Archives nationales 1866-93, editor at the Société de l'Art français, and compiler of important documents on eighteenth century exhibitions and Académies. His son Jean Guiffrey (1870-1952) was conservateur in the département des peinture at the Louvre 1918-34.
Lit.: Grove 1996
Major-General John GUISE (1683-1765), army officer and art collector; bequeathed a collection of over 200 paintings and some 2000 drawings to Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford; this included five coloured chalk sheets by Barocci.
Lit.: Oxford DNB
Sacha GUITRY (1885-1957), playwright, artist, collector and connoisseur; son of Lucien Guitry (1860-1925), de la Comédie-Française:
Lit.: Cent merveilles choisies par Sacha Guitry. Paris, 1954
Paris, Ader, Picart, Tajan, 29.XI.1976
Calouste Sarkis GULBENKIAN (1869-1955): born in Turkey to an Armenian family of carpet traders, Gulbenkian used his father's oil interests in Baku to become an immensely wealthy financier and oil tycoon. From 1916 he negotiated a number of spectacular deals involving international shareholdings in Royal Dutch/Shell and Turkish and Iraq petroleum companies; one of these affiliations resulted in. Gulbenkian losing his British citizenship in 1940. He assembled a collection of antique, oriental and Western art of the highest quality in his house on the Avenue d'Iéna in Paris. After his death the collection was moved to a specially built museum in Portugal, financed with the $70 million fortune he left. The only pastel he seems to have owned was La Tour's spectacular Duval de l'Épinoy, in keeping with his motto "only the best is good enough for me".
Lit.: Donateurs 1989; Chambers biographical dictionary, 1984
Baron Pierre de GUNZBOURG, Russian banker and art collector, who settled in Paris.
Pastels: Labille-Guiard, Mme Clodion
Otto Charles Henry GUTEKUNST (c.1865-1946), art dealer. The son of Heinrich Gutekunst (1833-1914), an art dealer from Stuttgart, he joined Colnaghi in 1894. He was associated with Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner. He lent numerous pastels by Downman to the Paris 1911 exhibiton.
Comte de G...
Paris, 19-20.XII.1881:
Lots 108, 109: La Tour, inconnues
Xavier HAAS (fl.1912-27), dealer, 14, rue Cassini, Paris, together with Émile Gross (q.v.). Galerie Haas et Gross acquired some English pastels.
HABRIE.
Vente p.m., La Rochelle, 31.I.1854 & seq.:
Lot 112-114: La Tour, inconnus
Christian Ludwig von HAGEDORN (1713-1780), amateur engraver, art critic, and collector. He was brother of the poet Friedrich von Hagedorn. In 1763 he was appointed director of the Academy of Art in Dresden and made responsible for acquisitions by the Elector. In addition to the Copenhagen sale, a joint sale of over 1000 drawings by Hagedorn and Izaak Schmidt took place in Amseterdam on 24-27.IV.1820.
Lit.: Dijon 2001, p. 149
Copenhagen, 1796, dates n/k:
Lot 163: Rosalba Carriera: La celebre Rosalbe, peintre en pastel peinte par Elle même. h. 23 1/2 p. l. 17 1/2 p.
Pierre-Adolphe HALL:
Lit.: Plinval de Guillebon
Inventaire
Pastels: Carriera, 2 pstls; Lundberg, Un joli portrait de femme au pastel
Noël HALLÉ (1711-1781), painter and pastellist. His posthumous sale included several of his own pastels.
Dictionary, artists
Vente p.m., Paris, Marolle, Joullain, 2.VII.1781
Henri HAMAL (1744-1820), composer, canon at the cathedral of Liège, historian of the artists and musicans of Liège, collector.
Lit.: Grove 1996
Liège, Duvivier (P. H. J.), 17.III.1824:
Lot 39: Levoz, Des gibiers morts, peint en pastelle, haut.65 aunes, larg.56 aunes
Mrs Alexander HAMILTON, née Grace Spreckels, San Francisco; inherited stock in the J. D. & A. B. Spreckels Company (founded by the brothers John and Adolph Spreckels) which made a $15 million fortune in railways, real estate and sugar. A number of works were presented or bequeatehed to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco by her daughter, Grace Hamilton, Mrs Bruce Kelham ( -1978).
Pastesl: Allais, La Morelli; a/r La Tour, Autorportrait
Sir William Douglas HAMILTON (1730-1803), diplomat and antiquarian.
Dictionary, genealogy, Douglas-Hamilton
London, Christie's, 17.IV.1801:
Lot 59: Rosalba, Princess Sacci, the Spanish ambassadress; & pendant, her sister [15/-, Seguier]
François-Michel HARENC DE PRESLE (1710-1802): banker and collector. "Some fine pictures, vases, statues, china and great quantities of Boule's works" according to Walpole on his visit (1.IX.1775). His daughter Mme Perregaux was portrayed by Vigée Le Brun
Lit.: Walpole & du Deffand 1939
Paris, Le Brun, 16-24.IV.1792:
Rosalba
Lot 96: Une femme vue en buste, la poitrine découverte, la tête presque de face; ses cheveux sont ornés de fleurs. Ce beau morceau vient de la Collection de M. de Boisset, no. 23 du Catalogue, & de celle de M. Lempereur, dessin, Hauteur 17 pouces, largeur 13 pouces 6 lignes
Lot 97: Deux têtes de profil; l'une, sur papier gris, & l'autre sur papier bleu; très-bien conservées,, Hauteur 11 pouces, largeur 9 pouces & demi
Paris, Le Brun, 30.IV.1795 & seq.:
Lot 123: Deux pastels, l'un de Greuze, représente une jeune fille blonde en bonnet rond, ajustée d'un fichu; l'autre, de Boucher, offre aussi une jeune fille vue de face, avec quelque fleurs dans les cheveux.. Hauteur 11 pouces et demi, largeur 9 pouces. 72 livres; [Jean-Baptiste-Pierre] Le Brun
George HARLAND-PECK (1842-1920). Born George Peck, he was a varnish maker in Wandsworth in 1871; he subsequently took over the varnish making busines of William Harland & Son, of Mitcham, Surrey. His wife Agnes (1853-1929) was portrayed by John Collier (1884) and by J. J. Shannon. They lived at 9 Belgrave Square, London; and had a considerable collection of old master and Early English pictures. Two pastels by Gardner were donated to the British Museum in 1917-18; his widow had another Gardner. Harland-Peck also owned a Vigée pastel, supposedly of Mme de Pompadour en pèlerine.
London, Christie's, 16.VI.1900
Lot 121: Russell, Collins
London, Christie's, 25.VI.1920:
Lot 39: La Tour, Mlle Fel
Sir (Robert) Leicester HARMSWORTH, Bt, MP (1870-1917), member of the newspaper family which included his brothers Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922sp), Viscount Rothermere (1868-1940) and Cecil Bisshop, 1st Baron Harmsworth 1939 (1869-1948, succeeded by his son, also Cecil, 2nd Baron Harmsworth 1903-1990). Sir Leicester's son, Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth, 3rd Bt (1904-1980sa), FSA, became chairman of the Harmsworth Press group.
Pastels by Russell, Gustavus Hamilton and Gardner
Murray HARRISON, Baltimore merchant, acquired a group of pastels by Sharples from Levin Yardley Winder (q.v.); they are now at Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
Theodoor HARTSOEKER, eighteenth century Dutch painter, who owned a remarkable art collection in which were represented works by artists that were not well known in the Netherlands, particularly pastels by Rosalba Carriera.
Lit.: van Veen 1984
Paul-Gabriel-Othenin de Cléron, comte d'HAUSSONVILLE (1843-1924), de l'Académie française, orleanist politician, writer and eiditor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, descendant of Germaine de Staël, château de Coppet, via the duchesse de Broglie.
Dictionary, genealogy, Necker
Pastels: H. Drouais, Mlle Gaussin
v.q. Coppet: Liotard, Mme Necker
Lady HAVERSHAM, née Henrietta Hope ( -1929), of South Hill Park, widow of Sir Arthur Hayter, Lord Haversham (1835-1917).
London, Christie's, 22.II.1924:
Lot 20: La Tour [Lenoir], homme
Charles E. HAVILAND (1839-1921), porcelain maker and collector, married (1877) Madeleine, daughter of Philippe Burty, q.v. He had an extensive collection of drawings, objets d'art etc.
Lit.: Goncourt Journal; Donateurs 1989
Paris, Drouot, Lair-Dubreil, 14-15.XII.1922
Lot 3: Boucher, te de jeune fille; Lot 34: Vigée Le Brun, auto
Jules-Paul-Ernest HÉDOU (1833-1905) left his collection of 38,000 drawings and prints to musée des Beaux Arts de Rouen.
Lit.: Lugt 1253; Chaline 1982, p. 236ff
P. HÉDOUIN père:
Paris, Couturier, 10-11.XII.1866:
Lot 32: La Tour, inconnue
Heilbron, v. La Panouse
François HEIM founded the Galerie Heim in Paris in 1954; the Heim Gallery London was established in 1966 in partnership with Andrzej S. Ciechanowiecki (1924-), who had been a co-founder of Mallett in 1962. Its emphasis was on French XVe-XVIIIe painting and sculpture, and a number of scholarly exhibitions were conducted until 1986. The Ciechanowiecki Foundation now owns some 3000 works, many displayed in Warsaw Castle, including portraits of Polish sitters by Mengs, Nattier and Vigée Le Brun.
Lit.: Tim Knox, "Art in trust for Poland", Apollo, .VI.2005
Carl Heinrich Baron von HEINEKEN (1707-1791), director of the Museum in Dresden 1746-63, responsible for building the large collection of prints and drawings. Heineken acted as Reichsgraf von Bruhl's private secretary in the early 1740s, and was responsible for liaising with the Elector's agents Samuel de Brais and Théodore Toussaint Le Leu, attached to the Saxon embassy in Paris and charged with acquiring paintings on the French art market. The 1757 and 1758 sales appear to have had the same catalogue.
Lit.: C. Dittrich, "Carl Heinrich von Heineken kunsttheoretische Schriften", Jahrbuch der staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, v, 1965/66, pp. 79-85; Dijon 2001, p. 149; Marandet 2008
Paris, Remy, 12.XII.1757, 13-18.II.1758:
Lot 449 [part]: Natoire: Une jolie Tête d'Enfant, en Pastel, par M. Natoire; elle est piquante, & d'un beau coloris: je ne crois pas qu'on trouve mieux de ce Maître [25 livres 5 sols; Remy]; Lot 451 [part]: Sept Desseins, dont deux Têtes dessinées en pastel par M. Natoire [8 livres]
Dr Rudolf J. HEINEMANN (1901-1975), connoisseur, dealer and adviser to the Thyssen collection. In 1935 he emigrated to the USA, where he was associated with dealers such as Arnold Seligmann, Knoedler and Agnew's. His private collection of old master drawings, formed with his wife Lore ( -1996), was exhibited at the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1973. Some old master pictures were sold in 2001 to establish the Lore and Rudolf Heinemann Fund for scholarly research; others were bequeathed to the Morgan Library, the NGA, Washington and other American museums.
London, Christie's, 4.VII.2000:
Lot 134: Rotari, femme
Prinz Friedrich HEINRICH Ludwig von Preußen (1726-1802), brother of Friedrich der Große, had "Viele Pastellstücke und andere Gemählde" in a room in Schloß Rheinsberg, according to Carl Wilhelm Hennert's description, Beschreibung des Lustschlosses und Gartens Sr. Konigl. Hoheit des Prinzen Heinrichs..., Berlin, 1778, p. 30, which unfotunately offers no further details.
Julius Samuel HELD (1905-2002), of Bennington, Vermont, art historian, expert on Rubens and Rembrandt. Educated in Heidelberg, he emigrated to the USA in 1934.
His collection of over 1000 old master drawings was acquired by the NGA, Washington in 1984.
Lit.: dictionaryofarthistorians.org; New York, Christie's, 27.I.2009 cat. introduction, Walter Liedtke
Pastels: Le Brun, tête; Luti, man
Pierre-Charles-Alexandre HELLE, occasional associate of Pierre Remy
Lit.: Marandet 2003a
Louis-Pierre HENRIQUEL-DUPONT (1797-1892), engraver and friend of Ingres
Pastels: Nanteuil, Dorieu
Théo HERMSEN, dealer, rue de la Grange-Batelière, Paris, 1930s.
Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of HERTFORD (1800-1870), principal collector of the works now in the Wallace Collection. Given his taste in French XVIIIe art, it is perhaps surprising that pastels seem not to have been of more interest to him.
Dictionary, genealogy, Seymour-Conway
Lit.: Oxford DNB; Duffy & Hedley 2004; P. Hughes, The founders of the Wallace collection, London, 2006; Jeremy Warren, "The 4th Marquess of Hertford's early years as a collector", Burlington magazine, cl, .VIII.2008, pp. 544-47, and numerous further references cited
Pastels: La Tour, Mme Grimod
John Postle HESELTINE (1843-1929), etcher and collector. He lived at 196 Queen's Gate, London 1877-1925, and thereafter at Eaton Square; and at Walhampton House, Hampshire. As a collector he was particularly interested in Claude and Rembrandt, but his extensive collection of French eighteenth century drawings included a Boucher pastel. His widow donated a Liotard pastel to the National Gallery.
Lit.: Drawings by François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard etc. in the Collection of J.P.H., London, 1900; Dessins de l'École française du xviiie siècle, provenant de la collection H…, Paris, 1913; Paris 1913; New York 1914; Lugt 1507
London, Sotheby's, 27.V.1935:
Lot 49: Highmore, lady; Lot 63: Liotard, dame en turque
Pastels: Aubert, scène 1746; Boucher, jeune femme; Liotard, vizir
Erskine HEWITT (1878-1938), inherited the copper mines at Ringwood, New Jersey, which he donated to the state when production ceased. He formed a well-known collection of Americana, sold at auction.
Sale p.m., New York, Parke Bernet, 18-22.X.1938:
Patels: Sharples, ten Broeck
Louis HIRSCH (1912-1992)
Monaco, Sotheby's, 18-19.VI.1992
Lot 60: La Tour, Belle-Isle, Lot 61: Mme de Belle-Isle
HIRSCHL & ADLER Galleries, New York.
Aimé-Charles, dit Horace HIS DE LA SALLE (1795-1878): collector of drawings, which he donated to numerous French museums. A bequest to the musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, included a pastel by and La Tour (Saxe). He also owned a Boucher pastel (jeune fille).
Lit.: Lugt 1333; Dijon 1974; Marine de Bayser, thèse, INHA, 2008
Edwin Marriott HODGKINS, dealer and collector, 138 New Bond Street, London, Paris and New York. Henry Walters was a major client.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Paris, Georges Petit, 16.V.1927: Lot 22: Anon., scène de Coméide-Italienne; Lot 24: Boucher, ?Mme Deshays; Lot 26 Boucher, attr., tête de Flore; Lot 31: Labille-Guiard, Mme Mitoire
London, Christie's, 29.VI.1934:
Lot 1: Bréhan a/r Fragonard, Acteur; Cantatrice; &c.
Others: Downman, Mrs Arbuthnott
Philip HOFER (1898-1984), a graduate of Harvard (1921), was closely associated with both the Fogg Art Museum and the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at the Houghton Library at Harvard; his extensive collection of drawings was donated to the Fogg on the death of his wife Frances in 1978 and included a La Tour preparation.
Lit.: Lugt 2087a
Georges HOENTSCHEL (1855-1915), interior decorator and ceramist, who found inspiration for his Art Nouveau creations from XVIIIe works which he collected avidly. The bulk of his collection was eventually sold to J. P. Morgan, and is now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Paris, 31.III.-2.IV.1919:
Lot 5: Éc. fr., homme; Lot 18: Perronneau, enfant 1744
Miss Ima HOGG (1882-1975), collector and philanthropist. Daughter of the Governor of Texas, she trained as a pianist in Vienna before World War I. The discovery of oil on the family plantation provided her with great wealth which she used for charitable causes such as mental health. She and her brothers also collected, with interests ranging from native American art to modern masters. Her collection of Americana, including more than 5000 objects (from pictures to ceramics and textiles) remains in her former home, Bayou Bend, as part of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Lit.: Virginia Bernhard, Ima Hogg: the governor's daughter, Austin, 1996
Pastels: Blyth, Diman; Copley, Mrs Brown; Mrs Henshaw; Sharples, Adams
Claude-Jean-Baptiste HOIN (1750-1817), pastellist and collector. He bequeathed his collection to the musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon (v. Collections).
Dictionary, artists
Paul Heinrich Dietrich, baron d'HOLBACH (1723-1789), philosopher and writer based in Paris. His role as a translator into French of German and English scientific and philosophical works made a significant contribution to the spread of Enlightenment ideas, as did his salon in the rue Royale, frequented by leading intellectual and artistic figures such as Diderot, Grimm and Marmontel.
Vente p.m., Paris, 16.III.1789. Mengs, Innocence; Plaisir
Sir George Lindsay HOLFORD (1860-1926) inherited the art and arboreal collections of his father Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892), reputedly the richest commoner in England. He was also the nephew of Sir Coutts Lindsay, Bt, owner of the Grosvenor Gallery. Holford's posthumous sale in 1928, with a number of paintings by Rembrandt, raised more than £400,000. Dorchester House, site of the present hotel, was demolished. His widow, Susannah Menzies ( -1943), retained a number of the pastels, and some were inherited by her daughter-in-law, Mrs Ian Menzies, before the 1977 sale.
Lit.: Oxford DNB
London, Christie's, 15-18.V.1928:
Lot 127: Ducreux, Marie Thérèse
London, Christie's, 14.VI.1977:
Lot 202: Lawrence, Lady Templetown
Other pastels: Gardner, Lady Albemarle; Mrs Hodson; Rowley; Taylor; J. R. Smith, child
Patrick HOME of Billie and Wedderburn (1728-1808) died before the collection of pictures he assembled in an 8 year grand tour was unpacked at Paxton House, the Adam mansion he constructed in the Scottish borders.
Dictionary, genealogy
Pastels: Pesne, Friedrich II.
Rev. Frederick William HOPE (1797-1862), friend of Darwin, entomologist and collector of insects and engravings (including over 100,000 portrait engravings). He donated his collections to the University of Oxford.
Lit.: Oxford DNB
Pastels: Angelis, Vésuve
Jeffrey HORVITZ: major collector of old master drawings. In 2008 he disposed of his collection of Italian drawings in order to focus exclusively on the French school. These are now in the Horvitz Collection, Edgewater House, Cambridge (v. Collections for list).
Lit.: Cambridge 1998
New York, Sotheby's, 23.I.2008
Lot 19: Barocci, young woman
Arsène HOUSSAYE, né Housset (1815-1896), author. His comedy "Le Pastel de Mademoiselle Fel", in the Galerie du xviiie siècle collection (1858), is very slight.
Pastels: La Tour, Mme de La Pouplinière; Voltaire; femme
Bernard HOUTHAKKER, Amsterdam: dealer in old master drawings. A posthumous sale of his collection was conducted by Sotheby's in 1975.
HOUZÉ DE GRANDCHAMP: collector of pictures, prints, natural history and curiosities; his posthumous sale at Lille included over 4000 items - estampes, catalogues, tableaux et dessins.
Paris, Regnault de Lalande 12-17.VI.1809:
Lille, Dioncq, 6.VII.1809 & seq.
Lot 123: [Anon.], La bohémienne. - Deux portraits au pastel.
Hugh HOWARD (1675-1737). A group of his own pastels and some by Lely assed through the Earls of Wicklow and are now in the British Museum (v. Collections).
Dictionary, artists
Ignazio HUGFORD [Ignatius Heckford] (1703-1778), son of an English Catholic émigré; painter and collector; pupil of Gabbiani. He lent pastels by Fratellini and Luti to the Florence exhibitions of 1737 (with his brother Cosimo) and 1767. Part of his collection of more than 3000 drawings was purchased by Gran'duca Pietro Leopoldo I, and is now in the Uffizi.
Lit.: Oxford DNB
Anatole-Auguste HULOT (1811-1892), French civil servant, responsible for the introduction and manufacture of postage stamps in France.
Vente p.m, Paris, Chevallier, 9-10.V.1892:
Lot 152: Greuze, L'Effroi; Lot 159: La Tour, Mme de Pompadour; Lot 165: Carriera, Hélène; Lot 168: Vigée Le Brun, sa fille
William HUNTER (1718-1783), Scottish anatomist; appointed physician to Queen Charlotte in 1764 and professor of anatomy to the Royal Academy 1768. In 1770 he established a museum, later bequeathed to Glasgow University with an endowment of £8000.
Lit.: Chardin 1979; Chambers biographical dictionary, 1984; Glasgow 2007; exh., Boucher and Chardin, Wallace Collection, 12.VI.-7.IX.2008
Henry Edwards HUNTINGTON (1850-1927), railway tycoon, nephew of Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900), founder of the Southern Pacific Railway. Henry married Collis's widow Arabella Yarrington (1850-1924). His rare book collection commenced in 1903. The art collection is well represented in English portraits and French XVIIIe furniture.
Pastels: v. collections, San Marino, Huntington Library
Other pastels: Russell, girl with cherries
William Henry HUNTINGTON (1820-1885), journalist, Paris correspondent of the New York Tribune 1858-78; his collections of pictures and objects related to Washington, Franklin and Lafayette were donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and included a version of Greuze's Franklin and a physionotrace of John Adams by Saint-Mémin.
Gabriel HUQUIER (1695-1772), engraver, publisher and print-seller, collector. He specialised in reproductive engravings after the work of contemporary artists such as Watteau and Boucher, often based on works in his own collection. His œuvre numbered more than 2000 plates, including numerous rococo ornaments. Major sales took place in 1761 (4537 drawings), 1771 and after his death in 1772. Huquier's son, the pastellist Jacques-Gabriel (1725/30-1805), emigrated to England c.1770; a sale of his effects took place in 1768.
Huquier père: Amsterdam, Yver, 14.IX.1761 & seq.
Huquier fils: Paris, Basan, 21.III.-29.IV.1768
Huquier père: Paris, 1-23.VII.1771
Lot 41: Boucher, Trois Têtes d'hommes & de femmes au crayon & un peu de pastel, par le même, chacun dans leurs bordures dorées & verre blanc. 10 livres; Lot 42: Boucher, Cinq petites Etudes, dont quatre femmes, & une d'un jeune homme au crayon & au pastel par le même, chacun dans leurs bordures dorées, & verre blanc. 36 livres 6 sols; Lot 49: Charles Natoire, Une Tête de S. Pierre forte comme nature, dessinée très-spirituellement au pastel, 14 livres 19 sols; Lot 50: Un Portrait d'une jeune fille d'après nature au pastel, par Perroneau, 12 livres 1 sol
Huquier père: vente p.m., Paris, Joullain, 9.XI.-4.XII.1772
Pierre
Lot 397: Une tête de jeune fille, vue de ¾, 13 pouces 4 lignes sur 10 pouces [3 livres 10 sols]
Lot 398: Tête de jeune fille, vue un peu plus que de profil, dirigée de g. à dr. m/u, grandeur un peu différente [3 livres]
Tête d'une jolie femme vue un peu plus que de profil, & coëffée en cheveux, 12 pouces 9 lignes sur 9 pouces 2 lignes [9 livres]
Simon HURTRELLE (1692-p.1755), notary, son of the sculptor Simon Hurtrelle (1648-1724). Hurtrelle le jeune was an amateur draughstman and engraver, and the subject of a pastel by Lundberg. He donated Claude-Guy Hallé's portrait of his fatherto the Académie in 1752 shortly before his bankruptcy.
Mr & Mrs John Jay IDE: their donation to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco included a Perronneau (marquis d'Anglure).
Sir Bruce Stirling INGRAM (1877-1963), antiquary and journalist, managing editor (and grandson of the founder) of the Illustrated London News. He initially collected illuminated manuscripts, but after selling these in 1936 he turned to pictures. A large collection of maritime paintings was donated to the National Maritime Museum in 1957. A group of English watercolours, left to Luke Hermann, was donated in 2002 to various British museums. Among more than 5000 pictures was an extensive collection of English pastels, some of which are now in the Huntington Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Government art collection. He lived at Great Pednor Manor, Buckinghamshire.
Lit.: Oxford DNB; Olivia Horsfall-Turner, in Greenwich 2006, pp. 71-84
Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of IVEAGH (1847-1927), Irish brewer, art collector and philanthropist. Pastels by Frye and Hamilton were included in the bequest which is now in Kenwood House (v. Collections)
Everhard JABACH (1610-1695), from Köln. He inherited a large fortune from his father in 1636, and soon after moved to Paris, where his banking business propsered with support from Cardinal Mazarin. His art collection expanded rapidly, with major purchases at the Charles I and Arundel sales. As a result of a financial crisis in 1671 he sold his collection to Louis XIV. In addition to numerous important paintings, this included more than 5000 drawings of the highest quality, which are now in the Louvre. Shortly after he was appointed directeur of the Cie des Indes, and he started a second collection, including a further 4000 drawings.
Lit.: Grove 1996; Bernadette Py, "Everhard Jabach: supplement of identifiable drawings from the 1695 estate inventory", Master drawings, xlv/1, 2007
Mary Frick JACOBS (1848-1936) established a collection of European pictures now in the Baltimore Museum of Art. She married first Robert Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and, in 1902, Dr Henry Barton Jacobs (1858-1939), physician and art collector.
Lit.: Henry Barton Jacobs, The collection of Mary Frick Jacobs
Pastels: La Tour, Perrinet de Jars
Jacquemart, v. André
M. JACQUEMIN, jouaillier du roi & de la couronne.
Vente p.m.: Paris, Chariot, Joullain fils, 26.IV.- 22.V.1773
Lot 831: Le Portrait d'une Dame de la Cour; il est peint dans la maniere de M. Nattier, pastel, 27 livres; Lot 832: Chardin, Un buste de vieillard, de grandeur naturelle, pastel. 99 livres 19 sols [?Vieillard, R&T 195]; Lot 838: Boucher, Venus & l'Amour, Pastel, 201 livres; Lot 839: Autre [Venus & l'Amour], différemment composé, idem [pastel], 150 livres; Lot 841: Boucher, Venus & l'Amour, avec une Colombe, Pastel, 140 livres; Lot 854: Boucher, Deux Têtes de femmes, au pastel, 50 livres
Charles JAFFARD [Jaffart], painter from Le Mans.
Vente p.m., Le Mans, 24.VII.1882:
Lot 93: La Tour, inconnu
Frédéric-François-Pierre Levisse de Montigny, marquis de JAUCOURT (1876-1969), industrialist based in Manchester, collector. He was grandson of Louis XVIII's minster: He owned two pastels in 1946, no doubt both family portraits.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Pastels: Glain, femme; Lenoir, Jaucourt
Solomon Barnato JOEL (1865-1931), South African financier with interests in mining, brewing and railways as well as the De Beers diamond company, of which he was a director and large shareholder. His interests were horse racing, gambling and the theatre, but his London house at 2 Great Stanhope Street was furnished with mangificent collections of books, furniture and pictures, sold in 1935.
Lit.: Oxford DNB
Sale p.m., London, Christie's, 31.V.1935:
Russell, Lot 2, Lady Isabella Turnour; Lot 3, Lady Frances Turnour; Lot 4: girl
Edward Mead JOHNSON, author of monograph on Cotes, American art historian, trained at Stanford, resident in London.
Pastels: Cotes, H. Freston
John Graver JOHNSON (1841-1917), lawyer and art collector. The son of a blacksmith, Johnson established himself at the Philadelphia bar by 1861, specialising in defending corporations against anti-trust litigation. He bequeathed a collection of more than 1200 Italian, Flemish, Dutch, Spanish, French and English paintings to the city of Philadelphia on condition that a gallery was constructed. The collection is now part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Lit.: Barnie F. Winkelman, John G. Johnson, lawyer and art collector. 1841-1917, Philadelphia, 1942
Pastels: Augustini, inconnue
Gaston JOLIET (1842-1921), curator of the musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon together with his brother Albert Joliet ( -1928); their father Antoine-Gaston Joliet had been maire of Dijon and an art collector. An important legacy (mainly of 19th century works, such as the Tissot Japonaise au bain) included pastels by Hoin and Pillement. He also owned the Boucher Femme au manchon acquired by David-Weill.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Édouard JONAS (1883-1961), antiquaire, place Vendôme; Ernest Cognacq was a frequent client, and Jonas catalogued his bequest to the city of Paris before becoming curator of the musée Cognacq-Jay. He became a député in 1936.
Lit.: Gimpel 1923
Pastels: La Tour [Lundberg], Auguste de Saxe; La Tour, présidente de Rieux; Perronneau, Mme Duval; Russell, Mrs Assheton; Saint-Non, Les deux sœurs; Éc. fr., marquise de Sassenage
François JOULLAIN (1697-1778), engraver, art dealer and auctioneer, active from c.1750 from a shop on the quai de la Megisserie. His stock, mainly of prints, was valued at 44,000 livres in 1762. His son Charles-François supplied frames.
Lit.: Marandet 2003a
Paris, 17.V.1779
JOUSSELIN, artiste peintre, économe du musée du Louvre
Paris, 15-16.IV.1858
Lot 210: La Tour, inconnue
Jubinal, v. Saint-Albin
Jean de JULLIENNE [Julienne] (1686-1766), director of the Gobelins; art collector, particularly associated with Watteau, many of whose works he had engraved by the Audrans, Boucher, Cochin etc. His contribution to the arts was recognised by the order of the Saint-Michel (1736) and he became an honorary member of the Académie royale de peinture in 1740. Jullienne's artistic patronage also extended to pastellists: several portraits by La Tour are known, and his inventory records a number of pastels by Alexis Loir, who also presented a bust of Jullienne to the Académie in 1781. A major sale, with 1679 lots, took place in 1767, and a further sale after the death of his widow Marie-Louise de Brécey in 1778.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: E. Dacier & A. Vuaflart, Jean de Jullienne et les graveurs de Watteau au 18ème siecle, Paris, 1929; Kopp & Tonkovich 2009, with Mariette's annotations
Inv. p.m., AN xxix 529 1766
Paris, Martin, Remy, 30.III.-22.V.1767:
Rosalba Carriera
Lot 65: Les quatre Saisons représentées chacune par une demi-figure de fille jeune & aimable, avec des attributs qui les caractérisent: elles sont au pastel, qui est, comme tout le monde fait, un genre de peindre que cette célebre Vénitienne possédoit supérieurement. Feu son Altesse Electorale de Cologne les lui a fait faire, & par conséquent on ne peut douter de la perfection de ces quatre morceaux. Ils sont sous glaces, & portent chacun 22 pouces de haut, sur 17 de large [1800 livres, Basan]
Lot 66: Rosalba Carriera elle même, dans un âge avancé, coeffée en cheveux; elle tient un porte crayon & une feuille de papier gris, sur laquelle est représentée le portrait d'une jeune fille. Ce Tableau au pastel, qui est d'un empâtement extraordinaire, vient encore du Cabinet de l'Electeur de Cologne: il porte 27 pouces de haut, sur 21 pouces 6 lignes de large [425 livres; Basan]
Lot 68: Le Buste d'une Dame, vue de face & peinte au pastel, sous glace qui porte 20 pouces de haut, sur 15 de large [312 livres; Donjeux]
Lot 69: Un Buste d'Homme, vu un peu plus de profil: c'est le portrait d'Antoine Pelligrini de Padoue, Peintre vénitien, que Carriera sa belle soeur a peint à Paris en 1720: il est sous glace, & porte 11 pouces 6 lignes de haut, sur 9 pouces 6 lignes de large. Ce pastel est d'une extrême beauté [42 livres; la présidente de Bandeville]
Lot 70: Le Buste de Sebastien Ricci de Belluno, peint à Venise. Il est sous une glace de 11 pouces 3 lignes de haut, sur 9 pouces 6 lignes de large [49 livres, Joullain]
Lot 71: Une femme tenant un papier de musique; elle est en buste & vue presque de face, sous glace qui porte 16 pouces 6 lignes de haut, sur 12 pouces 6 lignes de large [400 livres; Valade]
Lot 72: La Tete d'une jeune & agréable femme, vue de trois quarts, peinte en pastel sur papier bleu, sous un verre de 11 pouces 6 lignes de haut, sur 9 pouces 6 lignes de large [122 livres; la présidente de Bandeville]
Lot 73: La tête de Rosalba, âgée de 80 ans, peinte en pastel, par elle-même, sur papier gris, de même grandeur que la précédente [54 livres, de Bandeville]
Boucher
Lot 273: Un Tableau du plus précieux de M. Boucher, peint en pastel. Il représente le Buste d'une belle femme, vue de trois quarts: elle tient un panier de fleurs. Sous glace, de 14 pouces de haut, sur 11 pouces trois lignes de large [220 livres; d'Albertas]
Jeanne Natoire
Lot 278: Une Femme qui chante, & une qui prend du caffé, d'après de Troy, peintes en pastel. Chaque Tableau de 24 pouces de haut, sur 19 de larg [130 livres; Montulé]
[Mariette annotation: "Soeur du Peintre." "Tous ces pastels ont souffert de l'humidité. Je ne scais trop si ce dommage se peut réparer"]
Lot 279: Deux autres Tableaux en pastel de même grandeur que les précedens [24 pouces de haut sur 19 de large]: l'un représente une femme en habit de Masque, & l'autre tient un écureuil, d'après Carriera [134 livres; Donjeux]
Lot 280: Une Femme coeffée en fleurs, & une qui, lit d'après de Troy, idem [140 livres; d'Albertas]
Lot 281: Deux femmes en pendants, l'une est en corset rouge, & l'autre tiend des fruits. [215 livres. Mariette annotation: "d'après de petites miniatures de la Rosalba"]
Loir
Lot 290: Le Buste d'un jeune homme & celui d'une fille, peints en pastel & montés sous verre; chacun porte 14 pouces 6 lignes de haut, sur 11 pouces 3 lignes de large [160 livres; Naux]
Glain
Lot 303: Une femme se regardant dans un miroir, Tableau agréable peint en pastel, sous verre de 22 pouces de haut, sur 18 de large [210 livres, de Montullé. Mariette annotation: "en 1761" after "en pastel"; "Il faut s'y connoitre bien peu pour donner un tel prix d'une telle drogue"]
Lot 304: Le Sieur Caillot représenté en Capitaine Tempête: Buste en pastel, sous glace qui porte 19 pouces 6 lignes de haut, sur 16 pouces de large [30 livres, de Montullé. Mariette annotation: "On a rendu plus de justice à ce tableau mais c'est qu'il s'est trouvé moins agreable que l'autre." ]
Barocci
Lot 262: Une Tête d'Ange en pastel, sur papier bleu de 9 pouces 6 lignes de haut, sur 7 pouces 3 lignes de large [16 livres; de Bandeville]
Lot 370: Deux Etudes de têtes de femmes, & une feuille d'Étude de trois têtes d'enfants, en pastel [18 livres 3 sols, Pierre-François Basan]
Domenichino
Lot 425: Le Buste d'un enfant vu de profil, très bien peint en pastel, & al. [40 livres; Dumassot]
Patel
Lot 742: Six idem [Paysages], & deux en pastel, 21 livres; Basan]
Lafosse
Lot 763: La Tête d'un agréable jeune homme, peinte en pastel, sur papier gris, de 12 pouces 3 lignes de haut, sur 9 pouces 9 lignes de large [24 livres; Liancourt]
Boucher
Lot 945: Deux agréables Bustes de femme; l'une de face, l'autre de trois quart, dessinées au pastel, de 8 pouces 6 lignes de haut, sur 6 pouces 6 lignes de large [39 livres; Sylvestre]
Natoire
Lot 959: Vénus sur les eaux, & Diane au retour de la chasse; ces deux desseins sont en pastel, chacun porte 10 pouces 9 lignes de haut, sur 15 pouces 3 lignes de large [96 livres 1; Drais]
Bachelier
Lot 974: Deux sujets d'enfans, études coloriées & très finies des Tableaux qui sont à la Manufacture de Beauvais, pour être exécuté en tapisserie, 13 p. 6 de haut, sur 6 p. 6 de large [151 livres 10; Valade]
Loir
Lot 975: Un sujet allégorique sur les Arts, composé de vingt enfans; dessein en pastel, sur papier bleu, de 18 pouces de haut, sur 30 pouces de large, par M. Loir [96 livres; Vassé]
Other pastels: La Tour, Rousseau
Mme de Jullienne, vente p.m., Paris, Florentin, Le Brun, 5.XI.1778 & seq.:
Lot 4: Rosalba Carriera, Un portrait au pastel en buste, représentant une femme. Sous verre hauteur 15 pouces, largeur 13 pouces [25 livres]
D. KAÏEMAN, conseiller à la cour d'appel, Bruxelles. His four posthumous sales, 1858-60, included more than 3000 drawings.
Vente p.m., 2e partie: Paris, 2-5.III.1859:
Lot 640: La Tour, inconnu
The German brothers Rodolphe (1845-1905) and Maurice (1839-1906) KANN established themselves in Paris in the nineteenth century; their fortune was based on South African gold and diamond mining. In 1907 Duveen acquired the entire Kann collection, described by Friedländer as "superior to all private galleries on the continent excepting, perhaps, that of Prince Liechtenstein in Vienna". Their relative Alphonse (1870-1948), a British citizen after 1938, became an art collector and dealer in Paris before 1914, handling old master and impressionist paintings as well as antiquities and oriental and Far Eastern art. The 1927 sale contained a large collection of decorative art. Kann escaped to London during World War II, and his collections were seized by the ERR.
Lit.: Seligman 1961; Gimpel 1963; Donateurs 1989; The art newspaper, .X.2000, p. 65
Paris, Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreil, 6-8.XII.1920:
Lot 113: Gardner, lady; Lot 119: La Tour, ?Garnier; Hoin, Mme Dugazon
New York, American Art Association, 7.I.1927:
Lot 9: La Tour, enfant
Wenzel Anton Fürst von KAUNITZ-RIETBERG (1711-1794), Austrian statesman. His francophile programme was complemented by an enlightened approach to the arts, which he saw as playing a significant political and economic role. He implemented this policy by establishing a Kupferstichakademie in 1766, which he then reorganised into Akademie der bildenden Künste in 1772. His own collections were extensive, and were sold between 1820 and 1840. He owned pastels by Liotard (Karl von Lothringen; and family portraits). Gräfin von Kaunitz took drawing lessons from Lion in Vienna.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Grove 1996
KENNEDY Galleries, New York: handled pastels by Copley, Perkins, Lawrence and Sharples.
M.de KLENGLIN [Klinglin], conseiller d'État
Vente p.m., Strasbourg, 18.XI.1754:
Lot 168: [Anon:] Trois Tableaux dont deux en Pastel, & le troisiéme à l'Encre de la Chine, de différentes grandeurs.
Richard Payne KNIGHT (1750-1824), connoisseur and collector of bronzes, gems, coins and pcitures. His Analytical enquiry into the principles of taste was published in 1808. He was a trustee of the British Museum.
Pastels: Lely, nymph
M. KNOEDLER & Co., New York art dealer, founded by Michel Knoedler ( -1878) in 1846, initially in association with Goupil. The firm moved to East 57th Street in 1925. Its clients included many of the wealthiest American collectors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Huntington, Havemeyer, Frick and Mellon. Knoedler was involved in Mellon's acquisition around 1930 of 31 paintings from the Hermitage now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Lit.: Grove; 150th anniversary exhibition, 1996
Franz Wilhelm KOENIGS (1881-1941), a banker and merchant from Köln, settled in The Netherlands where he established the Rhodis Koenigs Handel-Maatschappij trading house. He also founded formed one of the greatest European art collections of the pre-war period, and was particularly famed as a connoisseur of drawings. His wife Anna von Kalckreuth was the daughter of a painter. In the early 1930s, his collection was placed on deposit with the Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam. A second collection remained with his descendants until 2001.
Lit.: Lugt S1023a
New York, Sotheby's, .I.2001
Pastels: Barocci, femme; Bassano, man; Boucher, Vénus; F.-H. Drouais, jeune fille; Fragonard, Le Premier Baiser
Eugène KRAEMER (1852-1912), antiquaire from Alsace. He was in business with his brother Léon Alphone (1854-1903). Eugène's posthumous sales in 1913 included a number of pastels. Lucien Kraemer, also from Alsace, founded Kraemer & Cie, 43 rue de Monceau, which remains in business four generations later, specialising in XVIIIe furniture; the firm has handled som pastels.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Paris, Georges Petit, F. Lair-Dubreuil & Henri Baudoin-
1ère vente, 28-29.IV.1913: Tableaux anciens, objets d'art de Haute Curiosité et d'ameublement. 170 numéros
2e vente (5-6.V.1913): Tableaux anciens, pastels. Ecoles anglaise et française du xviiie siècle. Objets d'art et d'ameublement. 169 numéros
3e vente (2-5.VI.1913): Tableaux anciens, pastels & dessins, objets d'art et d'ameublement, sculptures
Lot 112, 113: Boucher, atelier, Le Réveil; Le Sommeil; Lot 114: Caresme, Honni Soit qiu mal y pense; Lots 115, 116: Deshays, jeune femme au chapeau; jeune femme à la corbeille de fleurs; Lot 117: An. JF en rose; Lot 118: Anon., jeune femme à la lettre; Lot 119: enfant au tambour; Lot 120: artiste; Lot 121: jeune femme; Lot 122: homme en habit noir; Lot 123: Anon., Mme Vigée Le Brun; Lot 124: Médar: jeune femme 1771; Lot 125: Perronneau, homme 1747
Samuel Henry KRESS (1863-1955) made his fortune through retailing. From the 1920s he assembled an enormous collection of European old master pictures, sculpture and decorative art. Some 1800 works were donated to the NGA, Washington in 1961, while a further 1300 works were donated to regional US museums.
Lit.: Paintings and sculptures from the Samuel Kress collection, Washington, 1959; kressfoundation.org
Pastels: Carriera, Reade; La Peinture; La Tour, Dupouch; Tiepolo, allegories (2)
Jan KRUGIER and Marie-Anne Poniatowski: a collection of over 500 sheets of drawings over six centuries, of which 150 were exhibited in Paris 2002.
Pastels: La Tour, autoportrait
Jacques-Victor, comte de LA BÉRAUDIÈRE (1819-1895), celebrated collector and bibliophile. His son Jacques, comte de la Béraudière, owned of the château de Bouzillé, Anjou. The comtesse de La Béraudière lent a Cotes lady to Paris 1911 exhibition
Lit.: Chaix d'Est-Ange
Paris, 16-17.IV.1883
Paris, 12, rue de Poitiers, Escribe, Chevallier, 18-30.V.1885
Lots 135, 136: Boucher, jeune femme; Lots 138, 139: de Troy; Lot 140: La Tour, inconnue
The Palazzo LABIA in Venice, with its sumptuous ballroom decorated by Tiepolo, was the demonstration to Venetian society of the wealth of a family of recent nobility. Maria Labia, reputedly portrayed by Rosalba, had an important collection of jewelry. Contessa Cecilia Labia, Milan, owned pastels by Tiepolo in 1911. Other collectors in this family included Princess Ida Louisa (1879-1961) and Count Natale Labia who inherited a collection from his grandfather, Sir Joseph Robinson, Bt (1840-1929).
Jean-Joseph de LABORDE (1724-1794), a financier who enjoyed Choiseul's support, was a patron of the arts. Of numerous properties, the château de Méréville is perhaps the most beautiful. Both he and his wife Rosalie-Claire de Nettine were the subject of numerous pastel portraits (Ducreux, Roslin etc.) His son François (1761-1802) collected pictures, buying the duc d'Orléans's collection in 1791 before his emigration the following year. Some were sold to Jeremiah Harman, while the remaining collection was sold in 1803. The unrelated Jean-Benjamin de Laborde (1734-1793) was also a wealthy financier, his sister and brother-in-law François Fontaine de Cramayel commissioned a number of pastels.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Grove 1996; mathieu Coty, Jean-Benjamin de Laborde, 2001; Ormesson & Thomas 2002
Louis LA CAZE (1798-1869), doctor and amateur painter, whose bequest was one of the most important donations to the Louvre. Several of the paintings in his collection relate to pastels.
Lit.: Paris 2007
Étienne LA FONT DE SAINT-YENNE (1688-1771), influential early Salon critic. His reactionary views on the decadence of French art in his 1747 Réflexions… were particularly targetted against pastel, "espéce de Peinture excessivement à la mode".
Lit.: Grove 1996
LA FONTINELLE
Paris, 22-25.XI.1865:
Lot 44 bis: La Tour, inconnue
Karl LAGERFELD (1938- ), fashion designer. A sale of French XVIIIe furniture in Monaco in .IV.2000 yielded some $21.7 million. The paintings sale contained a number of portraits, one a drawing with pastel.
New York, Christie's, 23.V.2000
Lot 104: Coypel, tête
A.-H. LAGLENNE, antiquaire à Saint-Germain-en-Laye. His sale included a large collection of watercolours, gouaches, miniatures, prints as well as pastels.
Vente p.m., Paris, Drouot, 3-4.III.1905:
Lot 13: Boze, inconnu; Lot 95: Perronneau, attr. [Vallayer-Coster]: Jeune femme; Lot 99: Prud'hon, femme [Mlle Meyer]; Lot 128: Éc. fr., homme; Lot 134: Éc. fr., femme; Lot 136: Éc. fr., femme; Lot 137: Éc. fr., homme; Lot 138: Éc. fr., homme
Marin de LA HAYE DES FOSSÉS (1684-1753), fermier général.
Lit.: Durand, Les fermiers généraux, Paris, 1996, p. 535
Paris, Martin, 1.VII.1754 & seq.:
Lot 111: [Anon.], Un tableau peint en pastel, représentant S. Andr[é] de 9 pouces de haut sur 7 de large, sous glace, dans sa bordure dorée, enfermé dans une boëte matelassée en dedans. Retiré
Ange-Laurent de LA LIVE DE JULLY (1725-1779), introducteur des ambassadeurs, amateur artist, collector and patron. He was an honorary member of the Académie royale de peinture from 1754. His early allegiance to contemporary French art and enthusiasm for the neo-classical style were notable; they were reflected in the catalogue of his collection he had printed in 1764. Hébert's 1766 description of the pastels in the "petit cabinet" is also of particular interest.
Dictionary, genealogy, La Live
Lit.: Livre-journal de Lazare Duvaux, marchand-bijoutier, 1748-1758, ed. J. Courajod, Paris, 1873, I, p. cclxxx ff, citing Almanach des Beaux-Arts, 1762; Barbara Scott, Apollo, .I.1973; Chardin 1979; Paris 1991a, pp 364-7; Grove 1996; Bailey 2002
Hébert, Dictionnaire pittoresque & historique, Paris, 1766:
Peinture en pastel du petit cabinet sur le jardin: le portrait en pastel du Roi, par Le Moine. Un pastel de la Rosa Alba, sur vélin, représentant l'Hiver sous la figure d'une jeune femme qui s'enveloppe d'une fourrure. Une tête de jeune fille, par Greuze, étude pour la tête de la jeune mariée du beau tableau appelé la Dottée de la noce de village, que possède M. le marquis de Marigny. Le portrait de Watteau, par la Rosa Alba. Une tête de femme, par la Rosa Alba.
Paris, Remy, [advertised for 5.III.1770, but postponed to] 2-14.V.1770:
Rosalba Carriera
Lot 129: Le portrait de Watteau, représenté en buste: on voit le haut d'une chaise sur laquelle il est supposé assis; hauteur 12 pouces, largeur 10 pouces. Ce morceau est savant & d'un style formidable [123 livres, Remy pour le Chevalier Dameri]
Lot 130: Une très belle tête de femme, vue de trois quarts les yeux élevés: ce pastel fait à la presto sur papier petit bleu, est tout esprit & plein de ragoût, 12 p. x 10 p. [72 livres 3 sols]
Lot 131: Un autre pastel fini, sur velin, par Rosalba; il représente l'Hiver sous la figure d'une jeune femme en cheveux qui s'enveloppe d'une fourure & d'une draperie rouge, pastel sur velin, hauteur 1 pied 11 pouces, largeur 1 pied 6 pouces 6 lignes [460 livres]
Joseph Vivien
Lot 132: Le portrait de M. l'Abbé Lalouette, Aumônier de Louis XIV, peint avec toute la force & le précieux que l'on puisse donner aux morceaux de ce genre, 2 pieds de haut, sur 2 pieds 6 pouces de large [244 livres; Mme de Pange Vieille rue du temple [?] rue St Louis];
François Le Moine
Lot 133: Le portrait de Louis XV en buste à l'âge de 19 ans, pour servir d'étude au grand tableau qui est à Versailles dans le sallon de la paix; on ne peut douter de la bonté de ce morceau, pastel, 19 pouces 6 lignes de haut, sur 16 pouces de large [150 livres, L'abée Le Blanc]
Charles Coypel
Lot 134: Une Femme âgée, d'un caractere ridicule, à sa toilette; une femme de chambre lui met sa coëffure, & un Amour qui tient une fleche, semble s'envoler. 29 pouces de haut, sur 23 de large [56 livres 1 sol; Francois]
Mlle Natoire
Lot 135: Le buste d'une jeune femme tenant un masque, pastel, hauteur 14 pouces 6 lignes, largeur 11 pouces 8 lignes [9 livres; Matrat]
Lot 136: Un autre buste de femme, pastel, hauteur 12 pouces, largeur 10 pouces [8 livres 3 sols]
Greuze
Lot 137: Une belle étude de la tête de la jeune Mariée du beau tableau de la nôce de Village qui est dans le Cabinet de M. le Marquis de Marigny, pastel, 1 pied 1 pouce de haut, sur 10 pouces de large [149 livres 19 sols; Basan pour M. Mariette]
Alexis-Janvier LA LIVE DE LA BRICHE (1735-1785), brother of La Live de Jully.
Inv. p.m., AN, xci, 1230, 1.IX.1785
Henri LALLEMAND [?(1810-1892), peintre]
Paris, Chevallier, 2.V.1894:
Lot 10: La Tour attr., inconnu; Lot 11: Prud'hon, Perchet
Eugène LAMI (1800-1890), peintre.
Vente p.m., Paris, 26.II.1891:
:Lot 64: La Tour, Louis XVI
Carl Robert LAMM (1856-1938), industrialist and art collector. He and his wife Dora rebuilt Näsby slott (by Nicodemus Tessin), near Stockholm, after a fire in 1897.
New York, American Art Association, 21-24.II.1923:
Lot 595: Perronneau, M. Sarazin
LAMOIGNON. This distinguished family of parlementaires included a number of patrons and collectors. Guillaume I de Lamoignon, marquis de Bâville (1617-1677), premier président au parlement de Paris, was portayed by Nanteuil. His great-grandson Chrétien-Guillaume de Malesherbes (1721-1794), his sister, their niece and her hsuband were all the subject of pastels by Valade.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Grove 1996; Jeffares 2003
La marquise LANDOLFO CARCANO, née Adèle Cassin (1831-1921), reputedly the mistress of Édouard Delessert, Georges Petit and several Rothschilds, had a magnificent art collection in her house at 1, rue de Tilsit, Paris. She was the model for Dumas's Denise.
Lit.: André Maurois, Les Trois Dumas, 1957
Paris, Georges Petit, 30.V.-1.VI.1912:
Lot 180: Vigée Le Brun, jeune femme
Claude-Louis LANGLOIS de Sézanne (1757-1845), peintre. His posthumous sale included some 21 pastels, many of which could well be 19th century.
Dictionary, artists
Paris, Sauvan, 14-15.II.1845:
Lot 67: La Tour, magistrat
Édouard-Alexandre-Auguste LANON (1848-1881), a merchant in Elbeuf; with his brother Edmond, he formed a fine collection of faïence, left to the town of Louviers, together with the sum of FFr200,000 with which the musée de Louviers was built in 1888.
Pastels: Vigée, Le Massif d'Oisnel
La vicomtesse de LA PANOUSE, née Marie Heilbron (1851-1886), celebrated opera singer, who created the rôle of Massenet's Manon. She married the vicomte de La Panouse in 1881, much to the annoyance of his family.
Paris, 32 rue de Monceau, 26-29.IV.1882:
Lot 418: La Tour, La Condamine
Laurent LAPERLIER (1805-1878), a civil servant in Algiers. He collected Chardin (Bulles de savon etc.), Prud'hon (Abondance) and other French eighteenth century artists; he was a close friend of the Goncourts (their correspondence is in the BnF). His collection was dispersed in two sales.
Lit.: Burty 1879; Chardin 1979
Paris, Drouot, Pillet, 11-13.IV.1867:
Lot 58: Chardin, tête de vieillard, sd 1771 [Fr85]; Lot 59: Chardin, auto [Fr505]; Lot 67: La Tour, Dupauch [Fr229]; Lot 68: La Tour, homme en habit gris, jabot, cheveux poudrés, [Fr210]; Lot 69: La Tour, femme [Fr2000]; Lot 71: Perronneau, homme en costume Louis XV [d'Aubais] [Fr48]; Lot 84: Prud'hon, L'impératrice Joséphine [Fr1640]; Lot 89: Prud'hon, une chanoinesse [Fr78]; Lot 117 bis: Prud'hon, étude de bras; Lot 118: Van Loo (école de), Mlle Laruette, rôle de Zémire dans Zémire et Azor [Fr23]; Lot 119: Weyler, Un amiral anglais [Fr77]
Paris, 17-18.II.1879:
La Tour, Lot 49: Chardin [Silvestre]; Lot 51: Schmidt; Lot 52: auto; Lot 53: inconnu; Lot 54: inconnue; Lot 55: auto
Émile-Charles-Julien de LA ROCHENOIRE (1825-1899), peintre.
Vente p.m., Paris, Tual, 4-5.XII.1899:
Perronneau, attr., homme
Georges Bouttellier-LASQUIN (1882-1932): drawings expert at many of the Paris auctions in the 1910-28 period, working with Marius Paulme (q.v.).
Paris, Drouot, 7-8.VI.1928:
Lot 115: La Tour, masque; Lot 188: Perronneau, fillette russe; Lot 189: Perronneau [La Tour], femme au bonnet
Paris, Drouot, Ader, 16-17, 21-23.XI.1932:
Lot 15: Lenoir, fillette
J. LASSALLE
Vente p.m., Paris, Drouot, 16–19.XII.1901
Lot 27: Ducreux, fillette; Lot 28: Russell, fillette
Jean-Annet-Edmond, vicomte de LASTIC, château de Meillard, a landscape painter, owned a pastel by La Tour (Durey), in 1880, and left a Ducreux pastel (Plaichard) to the musée at Laval in 1929. Georges, marquis de Lastic ( -1988), of the Saint-Jal branch of the family, was adopted by François de Lastic and inherited the château de Parentignat. He became conservateur des musées de la Vénerie à Senlis et de la chasse, an expert on Largillierre, and owned two Vigée Le Brun pastels (enfants de France).
Jean-François de LA TOUR (1726-1807), brother of Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, inherited the collection of La Tour pastels which are now in Saint-Quentin after unsuccessful attempts to sell them at auction.
Lit.: Brière1932a; Cabezas 2004
Le marquis de LA TOUR-MAUBOURG.
Pastels: La Tour, Jolyot de Crébillon
The Hon. Irwin Boyle LAUGHLIN (1871-1941), diplomat. He started to form an extensive collection of French eighteenth century drawings while ambassador to Spain, with help from Agnew's and comte Enrico Bosdari (known as Henri Brémont), an expert on eighteenth century drawings with a somewhat chequered history. The collection was of outstanding quality, and included over three hundred drawings by Fragonard alone. Laughlin built his home in Washington, Meridian House, in the Louis XVI style, and assisted in the planning of the West Building of the National Gallery of Art. His collection was preserved intact by his widow Therese Iselin Laughlin until her death in 1958, when it was inherited by their only child, Gertrude, who married Rear Admiral Hubert Chanler. Much of the collection was sold in 1959. Some of the remaining drawings were exhibited in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in 1982.
Lit.: Washington 1982; Simpson 1987
London, Sotheby's, 10.VI.1959
Other pastels: Sharples, Mrs Winthrop
Ernest (1818-1894) and Olympe (1813-1887) LAVALARD, brothers; their collections were left to the musée d'Amiens.
Lit.: J. Foucart, Les Lavalard, Amiens, 1977, unpublished typescript; Chardin 1979
Henri LAVEDAN (1859-1940), de l'Académie française. From Orléans, he originally studied law before turning to the theatre; Le Prince d'Aurec was his best known play.
Vente p.m., Paris, Drouot, 28.XI.1941 : Valade [?Van Loo], RichelieuOther pastels: Ducreux, Robespierre; La Tour, Duval de l'Épinoy
Mme Lucien LAVEISSIÈRE, née Agathe Delahalle (1870-1946) offered a bequest to the state on condition that her home, at 68, rue Pergolèse, was converted into a museum. This was not accepted; but her nephew Jacques Lenté presented some 40 pictures to the Louvre, mainly French XVIIIe portraits, including two pendant pastels, attributed to La Tour [Lefèvre], M. & Mme de Rozeville.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
John LAW (1671-1729): the celebrated financier, who sat with his wife and son to Rosalba Carriera on her trip to Paris, owned a couple of Reni heads of saints in pastel.
Inv. .VIII.1729
Lit.: Jolynn Edwards, "John Law and his painting collection: connoisseur or dupe?", in Elise Goodman, Art and culture in the eighteenth century, 2001, pp. 59-75
Dr J. LAW ADAM (fl.1897-1930) sold 47 drawings to British Museum, including Bellers's self-portrait in pastel.
Sir Thomas LAWRENCE (1769-1830), PRA, painter and pastellist. He formed a large collection of old master drawings, from around 1820.
Dictionary, artists
Lit.: Paul Joannides, The drawings of Michelangelo and his followers in the Ashmolean Museum, Cambridge, 2007
Pastels: Boltraffio, group of chalk drawings; Gibson, auto
Lawrence, v. Durning-Lawrence
André LAZARD (1869-1931), banker, of Lazard Frères. His widow, Georgette Berthier (1885-1971), bequeathed a Perronneau (Huquier) to the Louvre in his memory.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Veuve LEBAS-COURMONT la jeune.
Paris, Boileau & Charlot, Paillet, 26.V.1795 & seq.:
Lot 50: Coypel, Deux figures de femmes vues à mi-corps, l'une ajustée d'un voile de gase est peinte au pastel, par Coypel, Hauteur 20 pouces, largeur 17. [Fr600]; Lot 51: Deux autres morceaux peints au pastel pas la Citoyenne Le Brun, en 1777 (v. ft.) ils représentent différentes figures de jeunes femmes, vues à mi-corps, l'une caractérisant la crainte, l'autre ajustee en vestalle. Hauteur 22 pouces, largeur 16 [Fr1000; Jaubert]
Charles LE BLANC (1817-1865), de la Bibliothèque impériale, auteur du Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes.
Vente p.m., Paris, 8.XI.1865:
Lot 12: La Tour, inconnu
L'abbé Jean-Bernard LE BLANC (1707-1781), writer and art critic, appointed historiographe des Bâtiments du roi with support from Mme de Pompadour. He was portrayed by Cochin and La Tour.
Vente p.m., Paris, Le Brun, 14.II.1781 & seq.:
Lot 53: La Tour, autoportrait
Louis LEBEUF DE MONTGERMONT.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 16-19.VI.1919:
Lot 272: Prud'hon, Lagnier
Gaston LE BRETON ( -1920), conservateur du musée de Rouen, 1898-1905, author of a study on Lemoine. His important collection of Rouen faïence was bought by J. Pierpont Morgan; according to Gimpel, he kept his discoveries for his own collection, which was sold in 1921.
Lit.: Gimpel 1963
Paris, Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreil, 6-8.XII.1921:
Lot 91: La Tour, Dumont le romain
Other pastels: Peronneau, Beaumarchais
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre LE BRUN (1748-1813), painter, dealer and auctioneer. Best known today as husband of Mme Vigée Le Brun, his
step-father Nicolas Le Rouge was also a painter and dealer. Le Brun played a very active part of the Paris art market for some forty years from
1770, acting as agent to Louis XVI, the comte d'Artois and the duc d'Orléans, and conducting some 165 sales. His catalogues and writings were
a significant development on previous standards. His own collection, which included a number of pastels, was dispersed in many sales.
Lit.: Chatelus 1991, pp. 157f; Grove 1996; Marandet 2003a; Michel 2008
Paris, 18.XI.1771 & seq.:
Lot 59: [Anon.] Un portrait de Femme en pastel, sous verre & bordure. [21 livres 3 sols]
Lot 69: d'après Rosalba Carriera: Un portrait de Femme d'a rès la Rosalba, en pastel, sous verre & bordure, Hauteur deux pieds sur un pied [30 livres]
Paris, Basan, 23.XII.1771 - 11.I.1772:
Lot 246: Deux portraits en pastel d'après M. Greuse, représentant un jeune homme avec une jeune fille, sous verre & bordure [26 livres 1 sol]
Lot 493: Fragonard, la tête d'une jeune fille faite au pastel & très-finie
Paris, Le Brun, 11-23.IV.1791 [?11.IV.-8.V.1791]:
Lot 262: Rosalba Carriera. Deux charmantes compositions: la premiére offre une jeune fille vue á mi-corps, coiffée en cheveux, la gorge en partie couverte d'une draperie, et tenant dans ses mains une colombe. Le pendant représente une jeune fille, aussi vue á mi-corps, vêtue d'une draperie bleue, et tenant un paquet de fleurs, Pastel, Hauteur, 20 pouces; largeur, 15 pouces 8 lignes. Elles viennent de la vente de M. de Boullongne, no. 13 [200 livres, b/i]
Lot 958: Ros Alba Carriéra, Deux Esquisses au pastel, sur papier, représentant chacune Vénus jouant avec l'Amour; elle est vue jusqu'au dessous du genou. Hauteur, 9 pouces; largeur, 7 pouces. Montées sur glaces. Elles viennent de la collection du baron de Thiers, pastel sur papier, Hauteur, 9 pouces; largeur, 7 [retiré, 6 livres]
Paris, Le Brun, 27-30.IV.1791
Lot 958: Rosalba Carriera, Deux Esquisses au pastel, sur papier, représentant chacune Vénus jouant avec l'Amour; elle est vue jusqu'au dessous du genou. Hauteur, 9 pouces; largeur, 7 pouces. Montées sur glaces. Elles viennent de la collection du baron de Thiers.
Paris, Jeluseau, Le Brun, 29.IV.1793 & seq.
Lot 39: Carriera, Deux charmans pastels; le premier offre une jeune fille vue à mi-corps, coëffée en cheveux, la gorge en partie couverte d'une draperie, et tenant dans ses mains une colombe. Le pendant représente une jeune fille aussi vue à mi-corps, vêtue d'une draperie bleue, et tenant un paquet de fleurs. Haut. 20 p. larg. 15 p. 8 lig. Ils viennent de la vente de notre cabinet, No. 262, vendus 200 liv. [210 livres; Vincent Donjeux]
Paris, Le Brun, 6-8.I.1794:
Carriera
Lot 28 Deux charmantes Compositions en pastel; la première offre une jeune fille vue à mi-corps, coëffée en cheveux, la gorge en partie couverte d'une draperie, & tenant dans ses mains une colombe; le pendant représente une jeune fille aussi vue à mi-corps, vêtue d'une draperie bleue, & tenant un paquet de fleurs. Haut. 20 po. larg. 15 po. 8 lig. Elles viennent de la vente de M. de Boullongne, No 13 [201 livres; Nicolas Lerouge]
Lot 29: Une charmante Tête de femme au pastel sur papier bleu. Elle vient de la Collection du Baron de Thiers, Haut. 11 po. larg. 10 po. [12 livres; Le Brun]
Paris, Baudoin, Le Brun, 12.IV.1797 & seq.:
Carriera
Lot 90: Deux têtes de femme, étude au pastel, sur papier bleu. Hauteur 12 po. largeur 9 po. ½. montée sous verre [27 livres]
Vente p.m., Paris, Constantin & Paillet fils, 23.V.1814
Lot 243: Mme Vigée Le Brun, tête de jeune femme
Mme LEDERLIN.
Paris, Bellier, 22-23.III.1933
Lot 6: Ducreux, inconnu au livre
René LE DOUX (1913-2006). Built in 1610 for Henri de Chiffrevast, the château de Chiffrevast was acquired by the duc de Plaisance in 1803. Eugène Bretel (1842-1933), of Maison Bretel Frères, manufactures and major exporters of butter, acquired the château at the end of the 19th century, which he furnished with a growing collection of antiques, an enthusiasm passed on to his nephew Raoul Le Doux (1875-1970), René's father.
Vente succession, Paris, Beaussant-Lefèvre, 23.X.2006:
Lot 102: Perronneau, La Tour; Lot 109: Éc. fr. [Pougin de Saint-Aubin], inconnu [Hénault]; Lot 115: Sergent-Marceau, Chevert; Lot 118: Éc. fr., inconnu
Guy LEDOUX-LEBARD (1910-2006), professeur, expert in radiology. He lived in the family apartement in Paris 8e throughout his life, and followed a family tradition in pursuing medicine - his grandfather Auguste was a pioneer in radiology, while his father René (1879-1948) started the art collection which Guy continued, bringing to it the same intellectual approach that he applied to medicine. He contributed to the Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français and was co-author with Gérard Hubert of Napoléon: portraits contemporains, bustes et statues. He was particularly interested in this period, and made a number of donations to Malmaison.
Paris, Hôtel Dassault, Artcurial - Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan, 20.VI.2006:
Lot 34: La Tour, magistrat; Lot 49: Pillement, paysage; Vigée: Lot 30, Lacour; Lot 32: Lebois
Other pastels: Vigée, Mme Lacour
Duke of LEEDS [?Francis Godolphin Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen, 5th Duke of Leeds (1751-1799)]. The two Rosalbas may be miniatures.
Dictionary, geneaology, Osborne
London, Christie's, 21-23.V.1796, brought from His Grace's seat in the country:
Rosalba
Lot 13: Two three-quarter portraits with plate glass [£1/8/-; Simpson]
Lot 14: Her own portrait and a holy family after Rubens, m/u [£1/17/-, Seguier]
LEFÈVRE-BOUGON, Amiens.
Paris, 1-2.IV.1895
Lot 92: La Tour, inconnue
Ernest E. LEGGATT ( -1922). Eldest son of :Henry Leggatt, a printseller in the City during the nineteenth century. Henry's fourth son Martin ( -1929) joined his brother when he left Agnew's to form Leggatt Brothers, fine art dealers, around 1880. They operated from Fenchurch Street and Cornhill before settling in St James's Street. The firm handled a number of pastels in the early 20th century. Ernest Leggatt donated a pastel by Dunkarton (Henderson) to the NPG, London, in 1919.
Lit.: The private collection of engravings, pastels, drawings etc., formed by E. E. Leggatt, London, Leggatt Brothers, 30 St James's Street, .VI.1906
Angelica Le Gru Perotti
London, Christie & Ansell, 17.IV.1777
Lot 1:Lot 1: Le Gru Perotti, Gentleman; Lot 3: Perotti, Callisto; Lot 4: Carriera, Diana
Adolphe LE GOUPY: publisher, printer and bookseller in Paris, 5 boulevard de La Madeleine; sold several pastels to Forsyth Wickes, c.1935
Albert LEHMANN ( -1922), amateur, father-in-law of Robert Schuhmann (q.v.); his fine collection ranged from pictures to tapestries and Limoges enamels.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Vente, 2e parte: Paris, Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreil, 8.VI.1925:
Lot 178: Rosalba Carriera, ?Isabella Fornari; Lot 179: Rosalba Carriera, homme; Lot 180: Drouais, l'enfant au bourdon; Lot 181: Perronneau, enfant sd 1747, le fils de Le Moyne?; Lot 182: Prud'hon, jeune femme
Charles William FitzGerald, 4th Duke of LEINSTER (1819-1997). In 1874 he inherited the title and the numerous Irish pastels of the Fitzgerald and Lennox families. By the time of the 1925 sale these had passed to his grandson, Edward, 7th Duke (1892-1976), who had already disposed of his interest in Carton House to settle gambling debts.
Notes on the pictures &c. at Carton, Kilkea Castle, 12 Dominick Street, Dublin and 6 Carlton House Terrace, London, 1885 [Irish architectural archive, repr. Drumm 2003]:
Duke's study: G. Caroline, Lady Holland, d.1774 (in crayons), Rosalba; Duchess's sitting room: E. O. Duchess of Leinster, crayons, Rosalba Carriera. Autumn bedroom: 7 female heads, crayons, Rosalba, each 11½" x 10"; 2 female heads, crayons, Rosalba, each 1' 5½" x 1' 2"; one of Rosalba herself drawing. She died 1757; St George, Lord St George, d.1775, crayons, Rosalba … 1' 11" x 1' 7"
Dublin, Bennett & Son, 6 Upper Ormond Quay, 2-4.XII.1925:
Lot 428: Hugh Hamilton, Emilia Olivia Duchess of Leinster - small oval; Lot 431: Liotard, Lady Georgina Holland; Lot 440: Rosalba, Portrait of a lady wearing pearl necklet and flowers in her hair; Lot 444: Rosalba, 4 classical heads, in finely carved and giltwood frames; Lot 445: Rosalba, 3 classical heads, in finely carved and giltwood frames; Lot 446: Rosalba, Pomona; and The Art of Painting, a pair; Lot 447: Rosalba, Lord St George, in carved and giltwood frame; Lot 454: Rosalba, Girl with a basket of fruit
Pierre LÉLU (1741-1810), peintre, dessinateur et graveur.
Paris, 23.IV.1811:
Lots 116, 146: La Tour, préparations etc
Henri LEMAN (1872-c.1950), collector, dealer and expert, 12 rue de Seine, then 37 rue Laffitte.
Paris, 15.III.1951
Anicet-Charles-Gabriel LEMONNIER (Rouen 1743 - Paris 1824), history painter, formed a major collector of drawings donated by his son Hippolyte Lemonnier to the musée de Rouen in 1862 (8 paintings) and 1868.
Pastels: Éc. fr., abbé Lemonnier, frère du peintre
Marcel 1913
Jean-Baptiste LEMOYNE (1704-1778), sculptor and collector. His son Pierre-Hippolyte Lemoyne (1748-1828), an architect; and his descendant Yves Lemoyne ( -a.1925), each had posthumous sales in the years of their death containing pastels.
Lit.: Chardin 1979; Grove 1996; Réau 1927, p. 157
Lemoyne, atelier: 26.VIII.1778
Paris, 19.V.1828:
Lot 88: Vigée, J.-B. Lemoyne
Paris, Drouot, Baudoin, 5.II.1912:
Lot 32: Mlle Beauvaste, Mme Cailleux, Lot 38: Drouais, jeune fille; Lot 44: Éc. fr., inconnu; Lot 47: Fragonard, Martinelli, Lot 64: Mme Roslin, Louise-Joséphine Lemoyne, Lot 65: Vien, Pontignon; Lot 66: Vigée, Lemoyne fils; Lot 67: Vivien, Jean Lemoyne, Lot 68: Vivien, Le Tellier
Jean-Denis LEMPEREUR (1701-1779), jeweller, échevin de la ville de Paris, amateur engraver, drawings collector.
Lit.: Chardin 1979; Grove 1996
Paris, Chariot, Joullain/Boileau, 24.V.-28.VI.1773:
Rosalba Carriera
Lot 23: Un beau Buste de femme, peint au pastel, & d'une pâte admirable. Hauteur 17 pouces, largeur 13 & demi [1225 livres; De Bosset];
Lot 24: Deux Têtes de femmes; études au pastel qui viennent, ainsi que les suivantes, du Cabinet de M. Crozat. Hauteur 12 pouces, largeur 9 & demi [210 livres; Louis-François-Jacques Boileau]
Lot 25: Deux, idem [175 livres; Louis-François-Jacques Boileau]
Frederic Le Baroche [Barocci]
Lot 211: Une étude d'une tête de femme, au pastel. [sous verre] [12 livres 12 sols; Chemilli]
Lot 212: Une idem [étude d'une tête de femme, au pastel] [6 livres 1 sol]
Lot 213: Une étude de paysages, deux feuilles d'études de mains au pastel, & une feuille de différentes pensées [6 livres; Joullain]
Lot 214 [part]: Une tête de vieillard, au pastel [30 livres; François]
Sebastien Ricci
Lot 252: Une belle tête d'enfant, au pastel [120 livres 1 sol; Joullain]
François Le Moine
Lot 508: Une très-belle étude d'une tête de femme au pastel [50 livres; Francois]
Lot 511: Une tête d'Hebé, belle étude au pastel pour le plafond de l'apothéose d'Hercule à Versailles [41 livres; Joullain]
Lot 512: La tête d'un Ambassadeur Turc, peinte au pastel [15 livres 1 sol; Basan]
Frontier
Lot 527: Une composition, une étude pour un Apollon, & une tête au pastel, par Frontier [4 livres 5 sols; Clerisseau]
Boucher
Lot 533: Une tête de femme au pastel [24 livres, Chemilli]
Charles Natoire
Lot 569: Jesus enfant, dessein colorié au pastel. [sous verre] [28 livres 19 sols; Montval]
Lot 578: Deux têtes de vieillards au pastel, & un enfant, sur papier bleu [7 livres 4 sols; Joullain]
Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre
Lot 591 [part]: deux têtes au pastel [12 livres 1 sol whole lot]
Lot 601: Une tête d'ange au pastel, étude pour le le tableau qui est dans l'Église de Saint-Louis du Louvre, & une feuille d'études d'enfans [5 livres]
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Lot 669: L'étude d'un blaireau au pastel. [sous verre] [9 livres Francois]
Lot 674: Un, idem [paysage], sur papier bleu; il est d'un effet piquant, & représente un petit pont de bois; un autre dessein colorié au pastel, où l'on voit trois chiens qui attaquent un loup cervier [60 livres; Aubert]
Lot 679: Un, idem [paysage]; plus, l'étude d'un sanglier au pastel [14 livres 3 sols; [Jean-Guillaume] Alibert]
Aubert
Lot 755: Deux desseins coloriés au pastel; l'un représente l'éducation, & l'autre l'étude [21 livres 5 sols; Brunet]
Vente p.m.: Paris, André, Regnault, 27-31.XII.1796:
Lot 34: Baroche, (Frédéric) Rom. [Barocci], Deux études de têtes, faites au pastel; l'une pour la tête de la Vierge, dite à l'écuelle, dont le sujet est gravé par C. Cort: l'autre de jeune fille. [monté & sous verre] [16 frs 5; Cercane ?]
Lot 182: Onze compositions & études, par Hallé, Gillot, la Monce, le Moine, Vanloo & autres; plusieurs sont au pastels & deux sous verre. [monté & sous verre] [14 frs 3; Renoud]
Alexandre LENOIR (1761-1839), writer, archaeologist and museum administrator, responsible for collecting statues and other objects during the Revolution. In 1838, some 217 portraits (including eight pastels) from Lenoir's collection were purchased by George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786-1861). His fourth son Lord Ronald Gower published the collection in 1874, two years later it was purchased by the duc d'Aumale through Colnaghi's for 200.000 francs, and its now in Chantilly (v. Collections for list).
Lit.: Grove 1996
Veuve LENOIR
Vente p.m., Paris, 18-30.V.1874
Charles-François-de-Paule LE NORMANT DE TOURNEHEM (1684-1751), fermier général, uncle of the Charles-Guillaume-Borromée Le Normant d'Étiolles (1717-1799) who married Mme de Pomadour. Tournehem had a major influence on the development of art in France in the period from 1745, when he succeeded Orry as directeur général des Bâtiments, until his death. He appointed the pastellist Charles Coypel to the revived the position of premier peintre du roi. Details of his own collection are unknown.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Grove 1996
Heinrich LEONHARD, from Mannheim. A large collection of miniatures sold in Berlin (26-28.IV.1910) and Munich.
Munich, Helbing, 14-18.XI.1910:
Lot 1872: Duhan, des Fourniers
Baron David Emmanuel LÉONINO (1864-1936). In 1892 he married baronne Juliette de Rothschild (1870-1896).
Vente succession: Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier, 18-19.III.1937:
Lot 5: La Tour, d'Albepierre; Lot 6: La Tour, attr., ?marquise de Sassenage; Lot 9: Siccardi, Préville
Other pastels: Lenoir, dame
Alexandre-Jean-Joseph LE RICHE DE LA POUPLINIÈRE (1693-1762), fermier général, patron of the arts. His vast wealth allowed him to cultivate the arts on a magnificent scale, both at this hôtel in the rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs and at Passy, where Mlle Fel, Jelyotte and Mme Van Loo sang in new work by Rameau and other composers. Forced by Fleury to marry his mistress, Thérèse Boutinon, her infidelity with the maréchal de Richelieu was notorious. La Tour's portraits of these figures are among the most celebrated works in pastel. According to Dumesnil, Histoire des plus célèbres amateurs, La Poulinière was an amateur painter and draughtsman; some of his work was bought by prince Galitzin.
Pastels: Allais, ??Mme Le Riche de La Pouplinière
Jean-François LE ROY de Senneville (1715-1784), fermier général 1772-80. He married a daughter of Jarente d'Orgeval, and was thus brother-in-law of Grimod de La Réynière. His posthumous sale included "28 pastels": a miniature by Hall, a Boucher, 2 Fragonard drawings and numerous other glazed drawings.
Dictionary, genealogy Jarente
Paris, 26.IV.1784:
=? Lot 74: Boucher, La Dormeuse & La Voluptueuse
Comte Charles de lesseps (1849-1923), French consul in Alexandria, elder son of Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894), founder of the Compagnie Suez. He was implicated in the corruption scandal surrounding the Panama canal.Paris, Drouot, 2.XII.1937
Émile LÉVY (1826-1890), painter and pastellist; exhibited at the Salon from 1848; prix de Rome, 1854; his collection passed to his widow, Paria Korrigan.
Lit.: Grove 1996
Pastels: Perronneau, d'Aubais
Wilmarth Sheldon LEWIS (1895–1979), specialist in Horace Walpole. His collections, which included a few pastels owned by Walpole, were bequeathed to Yale and remain in the Lewis Walpole Library at Farmington (q.v.).
Charles LIANDIER: presumably the lender to the Paris 1888 exhibition.
Paris, Drouot, 16.V.1914:
Lot 59: Vigée, duc de Mouchy
Other pastels: Perronneau, homme
Le prince Joseph Wenzel de LIECHTENSTEIN (1696-1772), minister to France 1737-41, Austrian general, and art collector. The princely collections are divided between the Liechtenstein Museums in Vaduz and Vienna.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Chardin 1979
Pastels: Pillement, paysages
R. M. LIGHT & Co., Inc., Santa Barbara, US dealer founded by Robert Light in 1956, dealing in engravings and drawings, first in Boston, and since 1977 in Santa Barbara
Charles-Joseph-Antoine-Lamoral-Ghislain, prince de LIGNE (1759-1792), major collector of old master drawings, many of which he acquired through the dealer Julien de Parme from French collections such as that of Mariette. At his 1794 sale many of his drawings were acquired by Albert Casimir August von Sachsen-Teschen, and are now in the Albertina.
Dictionary, genealogy Ligne
Adolphe LION, antiquaire, 27 boulevard de Courcelles, Paris 8e.
Paris, Couturier, 18-19 .XI.1908
Pastels: Allais, La Morelli; Labille-Guiard, Jeune femme
Jean-Étienne LIOTARD (1702-1789), pastellist, was also an active collector of old master paintings, assembled for prestige
rather than study. Apart from a number of his own works, he seems only to have acquired pastels by two artists: Carriera (an unidentified Diana)
and Caroline Luise von Baden. His son Jean-Étienne Liotard-Crommelin (1758-1822) assembled numerous pastels belonging to
his father in Amsterdam, forming the nucleus of the Rijksmuseum's holding.
Dictionary, artists; genealogy
Loche 1980; R&L
London, Christie's, 15.IV.1774
Pierre-Louis Eveillard, marquis de LIVOIS (1736-1790), art collector. Some of his collection in now in the musée d'Angers. including pastels by Chardin, Lenoir, Louis Vigée and Mme Vigée Le Brun.
Lit.: Chardin 1979; R. Planchenault, "La collection du marquis de Livois, l'art français", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, .VII.1933, pp. 14-30; .X.1933, pp. 220-237; "La dispersion de la collection du marquis de Louvois", Revue d'Anjou, 1934, p. 249-265; Grove 1996; Faroult 1999; Guillaume Farroult, "De l'hôtel de Livois au Logis Barrault: histoire de l'entrée partielle de la collection Livois au musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers", Archives d'Anjou, 2004/8, pp. 115-39
Catalogue raisonné d'une très belle collection de tableaux…[de Livois à Angers], par P[ierre] Sentout, peintre, .VIII.1791:
Lot 300: autoportrait de Chardin (Orléans version, R&T 194A)
Lot 301: Une tête d'un Monsieur portant perruque, et faisant pendant à celui de M. Chardin. Hauteur 16 pouces, largeur 13 pouces.
Lot 302: Une copie au Pastel du Bénédicité, tableau dont l'original est dans le cabinet du Duc de Praslin, 19px25p.
Lot 313: D'après la Rozalba. Son portrait tenant d'une main une tête dessinée sur papier, et de l'autre un porte crayon, on y voit sur un coin de table quelques crayons de pasel. pastel, Hauteur 28 pouces, largeur 22 pouces
LOUIS XV.
Dictionary, genealogy, France
LOUIS-PHILIPPE, roi de France 1830-48 (1773-1850). He abdicated and moved to England in 1848; a posthumous sale took place in 1851.
Vente p.m., Paris, Hôtel des Jeuneurs, 28 .IV.1851 & seq.:
Rosalba Carriera
Lot 288: Mlle de Clermont; Lot 289: Mlle de Charolais
LOVISA ULRIKA (1720-1782), sister of Friedrich der Große, she married Adolf Frederik of Sweden in 1751. She was responsible for the collections at Drottningholm, including a number of acquisitions made with the help of Tessin and Scheffer, Swedish ambassadors in Paris.
Dictionary, genealogy, Sverige/Preußen
Lit.: Merit Laine, En Minerva för vår Nord, Bjärnum, 1998
Charles LÖWENGARD ( -c.1923), antiquaire. Jules Lowengard ( -1909) was married to Joel Duveen's sister.
Vente p.m., Paris, Petit, 18.VI.1923
Lot 63: Perronneau, femme
Stanislaw LUBOMIRSKI (1722-1783), of the Polish family of collectors and patrons, married Izabela Elzbieta Czartoryska (1736-1816) in 1753. Three of their four daughters married Potockis. Pastels by artists from Marteau to Batoni were commissioned.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Grove 1996
Pierre LUCAS (1691-1752), sculptor, and his sons François (1736-1813), sculptor, and Jean-Paul, pastellist (v. Dictionary, artists) lent various pastels to the Académies de Toulouse, including some by their pupils.
Frits LUGT (1884-1970), collector, connoisseur and art historian, known in particular for the Marques de collections and the Répertoire des catalogues de ventes.
Lit.: Grove 1996
Gunnar W. LUNDBERG (1903-1973), art historian and founder of the Institut Tessin in Paris, to which he donated a Lundberg femme in pastel.
Other pastels: Saint-Michel, homme
Galerie Jean LUPU, antiquaire, 43 faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, established 1958.
Pastels: Allais, dame
J. L.
Paris, Drouot, Ader, 25-26.V.1932:
Lot 68: Ducreux, auto
Charles-Jules MACIET (1846-1911), collector and patron. He donated generously to French museums over an extended period, in particular to the Union centrale des Arts décoratifs. To the Louvre he gave paintings, drawings, ivories, Italian Renaissance and mediaeval bronzes. A number of pictures were donated to the musée Carnavalet in 1903. A collection of modern drawings and pastels was bequeathed to the musée du Luxembourg (now the musée d'Orsay) in 1911.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Pastels: Boucher, pied; A. Coypel, jeune fille; La Tour, Mlle Puvigny; Perronneau, homme 1748; Troost, scene; C. Van Loo, femme; Éc. fr., femmes (3)
Maurice (1861-1939) and Jeanne (1855-1937) MAGNIN formed the collection which is now the musée Magnin, Dijon (v. Collections). This inlcuded a number of drawings, mostly added after 1922
Lit.: Magnin 1922; dessins-magnin.fr
John MAHER (fl. 1928-32), of Bloomfield House, Enniscorthy: group of five pastels by Hamilton, acquired in the 1930s; sold by a descendant in 2005. He also owned a pastel by Hickey.
Dublin, James Adam, 28.IX.2005
Marie-Joseph-François MAHÉRAULT (1795-1879), conseiller d'État, art historian, author of catalogue raisonné of Moreau le jeune.
Vente p.m., Paris, 27-29.V.1880:
Lots 122, 123: La Tour, inconnues
Gustave MAILAND (1810-c.1881), peintre.
Vente p.m., Paris, 2-3.V.1881
La Tour, inconnu
Karl Eric MAISON (1900-1971), Berlin and London, dealer in old master drawings, author of a catalogue raisonné of the works of Honoré Daumier
John MALCOLM, 14th laird of Poltalloch (1805–1893), Scottish landowner and important collector of old master drawings. Most of his collection was acquired after his death by the British Museum in 1895. Malcolm's daughter Isabella married Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy, and some sheets remained in that family, including a drawing with pastel by Porta.
M. MALENFANT, valet de chambre du roi, amateur d'estampes.
Vente p.m., Paris, Paiuger, 12-22.VII.1773:
Lot 493: Quatre tableaux en pastel, sujets des quatre Saisons représentées par de jolies femmes à demi-corps, par M. [Gabriel?] de Saint-Aubin, sous de très-beaux verres blancs, bordures dorées, forme ovale [60 livres]
Albert MAME, of Tours, and his son Paul ( -1904). At the 1904 sale of Paul Mame's collection, some items were bought by Armand Mame.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 26-29.IV.1904:
Lot 63: Boucher, Têtes d'enfants, l'un de profil à dr., endormi; le second le regarde, le troisième, vu de face (Collection Guierche) [Fr6500]; Lot 64: Perronneau, Jeune femme, robe bleue, petit bonnet de dentelle au nœud bleu, collier à 4 rangs de perles au cou, sd "Perronneau pinx., 1748" (Collection Roux) [Fr 70,000, Mame]; Lot 65: Perronneau, Femme endormie en corsage bleu, touchant sa joue avec la main gauche, les paupières closes (Collection Roux) [Fr 30,000, Mame]; Lot 66: Éc. fr. [La Tour?], Un magistrat, de ¾ à g., son rabat tombe sur sa robe noire, perruque moyenne d'un procureur (Collection Guierche) [Fr1600]
MANCIN.
Lit.: Grove 1996
Charles MANNHEIM (1833-1910), expert.
Vente p.m., Paris, Georges Petit, 14.III.1913:
Lot 25: Russell, jeune femme
Sir Alexander Hume, 2nd Earl of MARCHMONT and Baron Polwarth (1676-1740), KT: commissioned a group of pastels by Birochon of the delegates to the Cambrai conference 1721-25. These were sold in 1912 to James Swinton, and appeared at auction from 1979.
Dictionary, genealogy, Hume
François-Martial MARCILLE (1790-1856), his sons Eudoxe (1814-1890) and Camille (1816-1875): Important collectors of French art, and of Chardin in particular. Part of the collection was sold in two sales after François-Martial's death; the part inherited by Camille was dispersed in 1876, while that inherited by Eudoxe remained in the family into the late twentieth century, through his daughter Mme Henry Jahan and then, by 1928, M. & Mme Chévrier-Marcille (indicated by the initials M.C. in B&W).
Lit.: S. Horsin-Déon, "Cabinet de M. Eudoxe Marcille", Annuaire des artistes et des amateurs, 1862, iii;
G. Duplessis, "La collection de M. Camille Marcille", Gazette des beaux-arts, xiii, 1876, pp. 419-39; Chennevières 1890; Chennevières 1979; Ratouis de Limay 1938; Philippe Huisman, "La collection Marcille: 5000 tableaux méconnus", Connaissance des arts, .VI.1959, pp. 74-81; Chardin 1979
Vente p.m. (FMM), Paris, Pillet, 12-13 & 16-17.I.1857:
Lot 47: Ducreux, m/u; Lot 95: La Tour, Pâris; Lot 432: Ducreux, m/u
Vente p.m. (FMM), Paris, Pillet, 4-7.III.1857:
Lot 211: Ducreux, pastel; Lot 212: Ducreux, m/u; La Tour, Lot 238: Mlle Clairon; Lot 241: Choiseul; Lot 242: Rameau; Lot 244: Duthé; Lot 247: d'Artois; Lots 249, 250: Marie Leszczynska; Lots 236, 237, 240, 246, 248: inconnus
Vente p.m. (CM), Paris, Drouot, Pillet, 6-9.III.1876
Paul-Frantz MARCOU (1860-1932): inspecteur général des monuments historiques et du service des objets mobiliers; collector of old master drawings. After his death, his collection was divided between his daughters: Valentine, Mme Jean Trouvelot, who donated 209 drawings to the Louvre, and Catherine, Mme Henry Dumas, sold in 2007. The two pastels by Allais do not seem to be in either group.
Lit.: Lugt 1918b
Vente, 2e partie, Paris, Drouot, Lafon, 23.V.2007:
Lot 35: Allori, femme
Other pastels: Allais, inconnu 1748; inconnue
Pierre-Jean MARIETTE (1694-1774), collector. Fourth generation in a family of publishers and booksellers in the rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, Pierre-Jean studied drawing and engraving. He was associated with the comte de Caylus, Crozat, Jullienne and Watteau, as well as with European correspondents such as Gabburri and Zanetti, and he was among those who welcomed Rosalba Carriera to Paris in 1720-21. His notes on artists were later published as Abécédario (1851-60). Mariette's extensive collection of approximately 10,000 drawings, many with distinguished provenances, was offered to the king at his death, but the price could not be agreed and it was broken up at auction. A copy of the sale catalogue was annotated by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. A Dossier des acquisisions du roi (AN O 1913, 4) records the sheets bought for the crown, while others were acquired by collectors such as the prince de Conti or Randon de Boisset. The reconstruction is currently being undertaken by the Association Mariette.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Lugt 1852; Jean Cailleux, "Apud Mariette et Amicos", Burlington magazine, cix/773, .VIII.1967, pp. i-vi; Barbara Scott, Apollo, xcvii, 1973, pp. 54-59; Grove 1996; associationmariette.com
Inv. p.m., AN lxxvi 45, 12.XII.1774
Ventes p.m., Paris, Basan, 1-27.II.1775, (estmapes 811, livres 164); suppl. after 13.V.1775 (dessins 1, estampes 295)
Vente p.m., Paris, Basan, 15.XI.1775 - 30.I.1776 (tableaux 25; dessins 1338; estampes 1491; etc.):
Rosalba Carriera:
Lot 5: Le Buste d'une jolie femme Vénitienne, ayant sur la tête un petit chapeau où sont attachées des fleurs, & tenant de la main droite un masque noir [800 livres 1 sol; Boileau]
Lot 6: Autre Buste d'un jeune homme, à la tête nue & des plus agréables, le col de sa chemise déboutonné; il tient de la main droite une draperie bleue qui le couvre: ce morceau, de même grandeur que le précédent, est d'un précieux aussi fini & d'une conservation parfaite [350 livres 1 sol; Boileau]
Lot 7: [a] Trois autres têtes de femmes [310 livres, Paillet], & [b] le Portrait de cette célèbre Artiste de l'Ecole Venitienne, que la mort nous enleva le 15 avril 1757, agée de 85 ans [1610 livres; Lempereur]
Correggio.
Lot 119: [a] La Ste Vierge, tenant sur ses genoux l'Enfant Jésus, & de la main droite le petit St Jean: ce sujet de forme ronde & plein d'art, est au bistre, rehaussé de blanc. [b, c] Sept feuilles, contenant diverses études d'enfants & autres figures, à la sanguine & à la plume [b:trois feuilles, 37 livres 19 sols, Basan; c: 16 livres; Cauvet]. Trois grosses Têtes, dont [d] une à la sanguine, & les [e] deux autres au pastel [a, d, e: 145 livres; Boileau]. [f] Trois figures d'études pour les Figures des Sybilles & Prophetes, peints dans l'Eglise de Saint-Jean à Parme [15 livres 15 sols; Basan]
Barocci
Cette Collection de dessins du Baroche, est extrêmement précieuse; M. Crozat les avoit trouvés à Urbin & à Venise, chez les amateurs qui en connoissoient bien le prix.
Lot 165: Une Tête de St Francois d'Assise, les yeux tournés vers le ciel; l'expression en est merveilleuse; la conscience d'un coeur pénétré y est peinte avec les traits les plus expressifs; elle est faite au pastel mêlé de pierre noire, 39 livres; Basan; Lot 166: Une Etude de deux Têtes d'enfants, dont l'une est vue de face, & l'autre de trois quarts; la sanguine & la pierre noire, mêlées d'un peu de pastel, y sont employées avec un art infini, & les rendent d'un beau caractere [41 livres 1 sol; Basan]
Lot 167: [Niert], La copie du Dessin précédent, & une autre Tête de femme, faits au pastel d'après le Baroche, par Alex. Nyert, 10 livres 19 sols, de Tersan;
Lot 168: Six [a: deux; [b: quatre] ] grosses Têtes de Christ, Vierge, &c aussi au pastel. [a:: 19 livres; Paillet]; [b: 28 livres 2 sols, Augustin Ménageot]
Lot 171: Une Tête de vieillard à barbe blanche, de grosseur naturelle, de forme ovale, au pastel: elle est connue dans son Tableau de la Présentation de N.S. au Temple, qui est à Rome dans l'Eglise Neuve. Cette Collection de dessins du Baroche, est extrêmement précieuse; M. Crozat les avoit trouvés à Urbin & à Venise, chez les amateurs qui en connoissoient bien le prix, 143 livres 19 sols; Lempereur; Lot 609: Francesco Bassano, Etude d'une Tête de vieille, de forme ovale, faite au pastel, pour un Tableau de Pastorale qui est connu à Florence dans la Galerie du Grand-Duc [11 livres; Lempereur]
Lot 403: Fetti, Une belle Tête de Vieillard, trois crayons [50 livres; de Tersan]
Other pastels: A. Coypel, jeune fille
Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Ménars, de Vandières et de MARIGNY (1727-1781), brother of Mme de Pompadour (q.v.),
directeur général des bâtiments 1751-73. Apart from the pastels below, the posthumous inventory included drawings by Portail and Vispré which have been described as pastels.
Dictionary, genealogy Poisson
Lit.: Émile Campardon, Madame de Pomadour et la cour de Louis XV, 1867; Chardin 1979; Alden R. Gordon, The houses and collections of the marquis de Marigny, ed. Carolyne Ayçaguer-Ron, Los Angeles, 2003
Inventaire, 21.VII.1781:
Chambre à coucher du marquis de Marigny:
[249] [sans numéro] A l'egard d'un Tableau peint en pastel Sous glace dans Sa bordure doré representant Le defunt Il n'en a été fait aucune prisée mais Cet article est tiré pour memoire Cy Memoire [possibly La Tour]
Galerie
[741] 805. Item un portrait de f[emm]e assise dans un fauteuil peint à l'huile et deux autres portraits de f.e au pastel dans un ovale prisés vingt Livres Cy 20 [n. 94 suggests that these are by Boucher; vente 1782, lot 14, but inv. 817 appears to cover this lot]
[746] 810. Item une corbeille Remplie de differentes fleurs et plumes Naturelles un dejeuner Representant des fruits en pastel prisés quinze Livres Tous deux Sous Verre Cy 15 [vente 1782, lots 156, 157]
[752] 816. Item Le portrait de Colbert Ministre peint au pastel [?Nanteuil] Celui de la fontaine aux Trois Crayons par Rigaud Tous deux Sous glace prises Soix.te quinze livres Cy 75 [vente 1782, lot 356]
[753] 817. Item Trois Têtes de femmes au pastel par f. Boucher dont La Dormeuse prisée quarante huit Liv Cy 48 [vente 1782, Lots 14 (La Dormeuse + 1), 15]
[754] 818. Item Le Buste d'un Jeune homme en Guerrier au pastel Sous glace par M:lle Rosalba prisé Trente Six Liv. Cy 36 [vente 1782, Lot 96, Louis XV jeune]
[766] 830. Item un buste de femme d'apres f. Boucher Sous glace prisé quarante huit Liv. cy 48 [=? vente 1782, Lot 15, "Une autre Tête de femme charmante, aussi au pastel"]
Salon de musique
[1818] A l'egard d'un grand Tableau peint en pastel sous glace d'un autre Tableau peint sur Toile et de deux autres Tableaux ovales aussi peints sur Toile Tous quatre dans Leurs bordures Il n'en a été fait aucune prisée Comme étant portraits de famille mais Le present article a été ici tiré pour Memoire
Paris, hôtel de Ménars, Basan, Joullain, 16.III.-29.IV.1782:
François BOUCHER
Lot 14. Deux Têtes de femmes, faites au pastel, dont une vue de face, appuyée sur un coussn; l'autre, de profil, aussi sur un coussin; cette dernière paroit endormie. Sous verre de 15 pouces sur 12 de large [71 livres 19 sols; Vestris]
Lot 15. Une autre tête de femme charmante, aussi au pastel. Elle est vue de trois quarts, avec bouquet à son côté, les cheveux attachés avec un grand ruban. Sous verre de 15 pouces de 12 de large.
VIVIEN
Lot 142. Le portrait de M. de Louvois en buste, avec rabat de dentelles; au pastel. De 21 pouces sur 15 de large.
ROSALBA
Lot 96. Le portrait de Louis XV étant jeune, en buste et cuirassé, au pastel. Sous glace de 15 pouces sur 13 de large [180 livres; Joullain]
Tableaux par différents maitres
Lot 156. Une corbeille remplie de fleurs, sur un fond blanc, avec une bordure, le tout en plumes de differentes coulours, sous glace. Hauteur, 22 pouces; largeur, 18 pouces.
Lot 157. Un panier de grosses pêches, prunes et noix, au pastel. Sous verre, 20 pouces sur 17 de large. Tous deux sous verre
François BOUCHER
Lot 282. Le portrait d'une jolie femme. Il est entouré d'une guirlande de fleurs formée par les Amours et accompagné des attributs des arts. Ce charmant morceau est au pastel. Hauteur, 13 pouces; largeur, 9 pouces 6 lignes.
Lot 283. Le même sujet, qui n'est pas moins intéressant que le précédent, avec quelques différences dans la compoistion, et qui a été fait de la même manière, en 1754, et de la même grandeur.
Lot 284. Deux Amours sacrifiant sur un autel et célébrant la convalescence d'une jolie femme qui s'élève en repoussant des nuages. On lit ces mots sur l'autel: Nous renaissons. Ce dessin est aux trois crayons mêlé de pastel, par le même. Hauteur, 15 pouces; largeur, 10 pouces 6 lignes.
Lot 285.Vénus assise. Elle est accompagné de deux Amours et tient en lesse deux colombes. Charmant dessin au pastel, dans une riche bordure entourée de guirlandes de fleurs. Hauteur, 18 pouces; largeur, 13 pouces.
Lot 286. Saint Jean enfant. Il est assis; son mouton est auprès de lui. Au pastel.
Lot 287. Une jeune fille accompagné d'un enfant. Elle porte deux paniers de fleurs suspendus par un bâton. Pastel. Hauteur, 10 pouces; largeur, 8 pouces.
Lot 288. Une bergère assise et vue à mi-corps. Elle est coeffée d'un chapeau de paille et tient une corbeille de fleurs. Ce joli morceau est peint au pastel. Hauteur, 14 pouces; largeur, 10 pouces 6 lignes.
Lot 369bis. Deux paysages par Desriches et Pillement; ils sont ornés de fabriques et figures. L'un à la pierre noire et à l'estompe sur vélin, et l'autre à la pierre noire mêlée de pastel.
MARIN, secrétaire du roi [?Jacques Marin (1682-1763) or his son Jacques-François Marin (1701-1777)]
Vente p.m.; Paris, Joullain, 23.XII.1775
Lot 12: Boucher, Tableau en pastel, représentant deux Amours qui jouent avec un casque [120 livres, Carle]
Marin, vente p.m.: Paris, Serreau, Le Brun & Saubert, 22.III.1790 & seq.
Lot 662: [Anon.] Un Buste de Nêgre, au pastel, de forme ovale sous verre & bordure.
The musician Antoine-François MARMONTEL (1816-1898) and his son Antonin (1850-1907), both pianists. Antonin left a number of portraits of musicians (notably Delacroix's Chopin) collected by his father to the Louvre, as well as the Roslin painting of their ancestor, the writer Jean-François Marmontel. A number of pastels from Antoine-François's collection were sold in 1883 and 1898.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Paris, 25-26.I.1883:
Lot 157: La Tour, Mme de Pompadour; Lots 158, 159: inconnus; Perronneau, homme Louis XV
Paris, Drouot, 28-29.III.1898:
Lot 17: Chardin, ??Bachelier; Lot 39: La Tour, inconnue; Lot 44: Perronneau, homme [Van Robais]; Lot 51: Prudhon, Mme Prudhon; Lot 68: Anon, femme
P.-J. de MARNEFFE: possibly the Pierre-Joseph de Marneffe (1760- ) depicted in an anonymous pastel which may be the portrait by Legendre in the posthumous sale. In addition to forming his own regiment during the French revolution, he was also an art dealer, and father of the Belgian painter François de Marneffe.
Bruxelles, Mataigne, 24.V.1830 & seq.:
Lot 703: [Anon.] Six Pastels, dont 4 portraits; Lot 727: [Anon.] Caïn tue Abel. Pastelle; Lot 761: Le Gendre, portrait en pastelle
Alexandre MARNIER-LAPOSTOLLE, created the Grand Marnier liqueur in 1880. Among the family collection is a Vigée Le Brun pnt.
Pastels: Ducreux, Marie-Antoinette
A. MART:
Paris, 2-3.III.1882
Lot 37: La Tour
Aimé MARTINET, Geneva: acquired a number of Liotard pastels, and a La Tour Rouuseau, from around 1930 on. It is unclear if he was a private collector or a dealer.
Pietro Antonio MARTINI (1739-1797), Italian draughtsman and engraver; active in Paris; the 1797 sale took place shortly before his death in Parma.
Paris, Delaunay, Regnault, 5-6.IV.1797:
Lot 6: Baldrighi, Une Tête de Vestale, peinte en pastel [10 frs; Breard
Jean-Baptiste massé (1687-1767), miniaturist. His posthumous inventory (AN MC xcvii, 422, 31.X.1767) included two pastels by Natoire, a portrait of his brother by Lundberg, as well as miniatures by Carriera.
Dicionary, artist
Lit.: Marandet 2003b
Jean MASSON (1856-1933): industrialist at Amiens and Paris; gave an extensive collection of early drawings of the French school to the École des beaux-arts in 1925.
Lit.: Lugt 1494a; Notice des dessins, enluminures, manuscrits d'art français du xiie au xviiie siècle tirés de la donation Jean Masson, Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 1927; M. P. Lavallée, "La Donation Jean Masson - Dessins de maîtres français", in Richard Cantinelli & Émile Dacier, eds., Les Trésors des bibliothèques de France, Paris, 1928
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreil, 7-8.V.1923 :
Lots 1, 2: Aubert inconnus; Lot 64: Ducreux, du Pré
Charles MATHEWS (1776-1835), theatre manager and actor, the son of a Wesleyan Methodist printer; formed the large collection of theatrical pictures now in the Garrick Club (v. Collections for exact holdings), which included some pastels by Russell acquired in the artist's sale in 1807.
La princesse MATHILDE (1820-1904), Napoléon's niece, daughter of Jérôme Bonaparte. In 1840 she married Anatole Nikolaievich Demidov, prince de San Donato (q.v.), but they were separated in 1848. In that year her cousin Louis-Napoléon was elected president and she held court at the Élysée palace; subsequently she lived in the rue de Courcelles and the rue de Berri where "elle accueillait tous ses visiteurs avec un sansfaçon qui était l'extrême raffinement de la condescendance et de la politesse" (Abel Hermant). These visitors were the leading figrues of the worlds of art, literature and science. She was herself an amateur artist.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Vente p.m., Paris, Chevallier, 17-21.V.1904:
Pastels: La Tour, Nollet
Other pastels: Chardin, garçon; fillette
The MATTHIESEN Gallery, London, dealers in old master pictures since before 1949.
M. MAUPETIT, brocanteur.
Vente p.m., Paris, Brisse, Prault & Joullain, 18.VII.1774 & seq.
Lot 38: [Anon.]: Six Portraits au pastel, dont ceux du Chancelier le Tellier & du Président de Novion. 2 livres 12 sols
Louis-Joseph MAURICE (1730-1820), pastellist and art collector. His collection included objets d'art and curiosities, as well as paintings by Boucher and Fragonard. It is not known if it included pastels.
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Paris, 8.XI.1820
Citoyen MAURICE.
Paris, Thierry, Regnault, 16-17.I.1797
Lot 59: Une copie du fleuve scamandre, peinte au pastel, d'après Boucher; & divers dessins non-décrits, 8 frs 15
MAY, v. Ernest May
Pierre-Georges MAY: a pastel by Bernard was lent to the Paris 1927 exhibition.
Pastels: Bernard, femme 1757; La Tour, Dupouch
François MAX-KANN, dealer and expert, Paris, c.1930.
MAXE, ancien marchand e curiosités.
Vente p.m., Paris, 22-24.III.1852:
Lot 267: La Tour, inconnue
Alphonse MAZE-SENSIER (1831-1892), art historian and collector. He published Carriera's journals.
Paris, 19-20.III.1886
Paris, 13.IV.1892
Edward A. MCGUIRE (1901-1993), chairman of Brown Thomas, the Dublin retailer, senator and collector. Newtown Park, his house in Blackrock, contained pictures by El Greco, Gainsborough and Reynolds as well as rare china, glass, tapestries and objets d'art. He contributed an article on Irish 18th century pastels to the Connoisseur in 1939, and he owned a group of pastels by Forrest now in the NGI, Dublin.
London, Christie's, 20.IX.1976
Other pastels: H. Hone, Lady Lanesborough
F. R. MEATYARD, fine art dealer, London; 59 High Holborn 1912-20; Museum Street, from 1920.
Cardinal Leopoldo de' MEDICI (1617-1675) was a leading patron of the arts and sciences. He collected paintings, drawings, sculpture, coins and books; he initiated the series of artists' self-portraits now in the Uffizi, and which include a number of works in pastel. He and other members of this illustrious family owned several sheets by seventeenth century draughtsmen (Leonardo, Mola etc.) described in inventories as pastel but more probably chalk drawings. The Medici collections also included pastels by Vouet, Nanteuil, Tempesti, Fratellini, Vivien and Carriera; they are now in the Uffizi (v. Collections for holdings).
Dictionary, genealogy, Toscana
J. H. J. MELLAART, The Netherlands: dealers; handled pastels by Russell.
Paul MELLON (1907-1999), son of Andrew W. Mellon; philanthropist, racehorse owner and art collector with a particular interest in British art. An exhibition took place in the Royal Academy (London 2007a) took place on the centenary of his birth.
Lit.: London 2007a
Pastels: v. Collections, New Haven, Yale Center for British Art
Augustin MÉNAGEOT, picture dealer, father of the painter François-Guillaume Ménageot.
Paris, Chariot, Paillet, 17.III.1778:
Lot 139: Carriera, Le Portrait de l'Electeur de Cologne, peint au pastel sous glace & bordure dorée. L. 16 p. H. 21
Alphonse MENNECHET DE BARIVAL (1812–1903) married the granddaughter of the auctioneer Paillet. In 1880 he had constructed the pseudo-renaissance
château Mennechet in Chiry-Ourscamp intended to be a museum to house his collection of picture, sculpture and faïence, but the project was incomplete at his death, and the château
was destroyed by bombing during the 1914–18 war. He left three pastels to Saint-Quentin which may well have come from the disastrous La Tour sale run by Paillet.
Pastels: La Tour, Cassanéa de Mondonville; inconnu no. 21; inconnue no. 13
Anton W. M. MENSING (1866-1936): a bookbinder by training, he joined the Amsterdam firm founded by Frederik Muller in 1885. He became director and owner of the firm, expanding its activities to those of an international art auction house. He collected pictures, bookbindings as well as scientific instruments (his collection is now in the Adler Planetarium in Chicago). Two of his pastels are now in the Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen. His son Ben (1903-1972) continued the firm until c.1960.
Lit..: W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns, "The Amsterdam Scheepvaartmuseum and Anton Mensing", Journal of the history of collections, vii/2, 1995, pp. 235-41; W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns, "Frederik Muller & Co and Anton Mensing: The first international art auction house in Amsterdam, and its director", Quaerendo, xxxiv/3-4, 2004, pp. 211-39
Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 27-29.IV.1937, dessins anciens:
Lot 148: Cotes, Lady Mary Eyre; Lot 171: Ducruex, Dame; Lot 329: La Tour [Éc. fr.], homme; Lot 330: La Tour, auto; Lot 523: Perronneau, femme 1766
Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 15.XI.1938, tableaux anciens
Dr Paul MERSCH, Paris.
Paris, Georges Petit, 28.V.1909:
Lot 47: La Tour, bénédictine; Lot 65: Perronneau, homme
Armand-Louis de MESTRAL DE SAINT-SAPHORIN (1738-1805), Danish representative at the court in Dresden 1762; collector of drawings, including the Michelangelo Study of Christ and the woman of Samaria (New York, Sotheby's, 28.I.1998). While in Madrid he commissioned four pictures from Pillement.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Michaud; Danske Biografisk Lexikon
Pastels: Carriera [Vleughels}, tête de femme
Meruville, v. Petit
Albert MEYER, Paris.
Lit.: Seymour de Ricci, Dessins du dix-huitième siècle, collection Albert Meyer, Paris, 1935
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Ader, 15.VI.1938 Lot 6: Boucher attr., jeune fille à la colombe
Other pastels: La Tour, Pompadour
André MEYER (1898-1979): emigrated to the USA in 1940; head of Lazard Frères for 33 years until his retirement in 1977. He and his wife, née Bella Lehmann (1903-1980), were donors to the Louvre, musée d'Orsay, Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOMA, New York.
Exh.: Exhibition of the collection of Mr. and Mrs. André Meyer. Washington, National Gallery of Art, 10.VI.-8.VII.1962, paintings and drawings from Rmbrandt to Picasso.
Lit.: Cary Reich, Financier: the biography of Andre Meyer, New York, 1983
New York, Parke-Bernet, 22.X.1980:
Lot 8: La Tour, Camargo
New York, Christie's, 26.X.2001
Louis MEYER: lent a Perronneau enfant to the Paris 1927a and Paris 1936b exhibitions.
Herman Stern ( –1887), Barao de Stern in the Portuguese peerage, founded the London banking house of Stern Brothers. He bought Strawberry Hill in 1883. He was succeeded by his son Herbert, 1st Baron MICHELHAM (1851–1919), a banker and philanthropist. His widow, née Aimée Geraldine Bradshaw ( -1927), 20 Arlington Street, London, acquired a Carriera, James Dawkins from Agnew's in 1920. The Michelham collection was dispersed from the premises by Hamptons, 23–24.XI.1926, and included an anonymous French pastel, The telescope.
Henri MICHEL-LÉVY (1845-1914), painter.
Paris, Drouot Salle 9, 25.V.1905:
Lot 35: Boze, femme âgée, Lot 36: La Tour, auto [B&W 234, rejected]; Lots 37, 38: Anon., a/r Fragonard, jeune fille tenant une marmotte; petit garçon accoudé sur une cage
Paris, Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreil, experts Féral, Paulme, 12-13.V.1919
Lot 41: Boucher, jeune fille brune
Léon MICHEL-LÉVY (1846-1925).
Lit.: Chardin 1979
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 17-18.VI.1925:
Lot 39: Boucher, jeune fillebrune; Lot 40: Boucher, ?Mme Deshays au bonnet; Lot 41: Boucher, jeune fille au pigeon; Lot 44 Chardin, auto au chevalet; Lot 48: Ducreux, fillette; Lot 77: La Tour, Silvestre; Lot 84: Peronneau, Mme Laruette; Lot 85: Perronneau, Mme Dutillieu; Lots 104, 105: Vigée, actrices
Émile MICHELOT, Bordeaux.
Vente p.m., Paris, 14-17.II.1881:
La Tour, homme
Edwin MILGROM, endocrinologist, and his wife Monique donated a painting by François de Troy to the musee de l'Île-de-France, Sceaux, where their collection, particularly rich in paintings of the French XVIIe, was exhibited; it included a version of Van Loo's pastel, Mme de Prie.
Lit.: Sceaux 2007; Gazette Drouot, 11.VII.2008, pp. 130-31
Eric George MILLAR (1887-1966), keeper of manuscripts in the British Museum, 1944-47; collector. He donated or bequeathed over 300 items to the British Museum.
Lit.: "The Eric George Millar Bequest of Manuscripts and Drawings 1967", British Museum quarterly, XXXIII, 1968
Pastels: Downman (8 pastels)
Regina V. G. [Mrs Clarence] MILLHISER (1874-a.1965). The Millhiser fortune was based on a lumbar, dry goods and retail business in Richmond started by Clarence's father, Moses Millhiser. In 1920 Mrs Millhiser was the victim of theft by an employee at a New York hotel involving jewelry worth $350,000. After her husband's death (c.1924), Mrs Millhiser travelled frequently to Europe. Several pastels by Ducreux were donated by her estate to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 1965.
Joseph Leeson, Viscount Russborough 1760, Earl of MILLTOWN (1711-1783), MP 1743-56, collector. He had six Carriera pastels, now in National Gallery of Ireland (v. Collections).
MILNES-COATES, v. Cotes
MINOT, Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Paris, 25-26.IV.1887:
Lot 42: La Tour attr., officier
Charles-Edmond MITANTIER (1817-1887), notary and bibliophile: his widow donated an important collection of early printed books to the bibliothèque municipale de Troyes. The musée des Beaux-Arts received a group of six pastels by Petit de Villeneuve.
La comtesse André MNISZEK, née Anna Potocka, wife of the Polish émigré portraitist Andrzej Mniszek (1823-1905). A number of Marteau pastels of members of the Mniszek or Potocki families were in her posthumous sale; others were recorded by Fournier-Sarlovèze in 1906.
Vente succession, Paris, Drouot, Baudoin, 9-10.V.1910:
Marteau, Lot 1: Mme Geoffrin; Lot 2. La comtesse François Potocka; Lot 3: La comtesse Pélagie Potocka; Lot 4: Aniéla Lodochowska; Lot 5: Sophie Potocka; Lot 6: jeune fille; Lot 7: La comtesse Ursule Mniszech
Charles MOISSON (fl. 1878-94) published a catalogue of the pictures at the musée Jeanne d'Aboville, La Fère, in 1889.
Pastels: Ducreux, Manuel; Frey, Mmes Adélaïde, Sophie, Victoire
Hender Delves MOLESWORTH (1907-1978), keeper of sculpture, V&A 1931-66, and his wife Eve, a designer and decorator: owned a Mengs pastel (Ismael Mengs).
Il marchese Giovanni Carlo MOLINARI (1715-1763), arcivescovo tit. di Damasco, Nunzio Pontificio à Bruxelles, subject of a portrait by Carriera.
Bruxelles, H. Vleminckx, 15.VII.1763:
Lot 38: Carriera, Deux Pastels pareils, représentans l'Hiver, dont l'un peint par la fameuse Rosalbe, & l'autre copié d'après elle, cadre noir avec glace [30 Dfl, Flamand?]
Henri-Roger Conquéré de MONTBRISON (1837-) owned a pastel by La Tour (Mme Louise) in 1888; his daughter, Marianne, Lady Ashbourne (8 1896 William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne), gave it to the Louvre in 1920. A Nanteuil (Montpezat) now in Reims was acquired in 1907 from E. de Montbrison, possibly Roger's son, Édouard (1887- ).
Lit.: Burke's Peerage; Donateurs 1989
MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC. This ancient house included a number of collectors. The Paris, 19.III.1897 sale by the widow of Adrien-Edgar, marquis de Montesquiou-Fezensac, née Anne-Marie de Rohan-Chabot included pastels of inconnues by Boucher and La Tour. Adrien-Edgar's first cousin, comte Odon, married Marie Bibesco (1845-1929), château de Courtanvaux; her sale (Paris, Georges Petit, 9-10.XII.1929) included two anonymous pastels (Rosamée de Montesquiou-Fezensac and la marquise de Lastic). Odon's nephew was the Symbolist poet and collector, comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1855-1921). A second cousin, comte Blaise de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1886-1974), bibliophile, antiquary, author and collector, 9 rue de Chaillot, Paris 16e in 1922; married Anne de Vogüé; she lent the Vivien pendants, M. & Mme Bombarde, to the 1927a exhibition.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Léonard Drouet, comte de MONTGERMONT ( -1943) succeeded his father, also Léonard (1832-1897). The Annuaire de la noble association de secours mutuels des chevaliers pontificaux for 1934/35 has a portrait of him. The château de Montgermont at Pringy still belongs to the family.
Pastels: Prud'hon, Lagnier
Jean-Gabriel MONTJOIE (fl.1767-95), pastellist who was a pupil and collector of La Tour.
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Jean-Baptiste-François de MONTULLÉ or Montulé (1721-1787), secrétaire des commandements de la reine, associé-libre 1764, honoraire-amateur 1781 de l'Académie royale de peinture, heir to the estates of his uncle Jean-Baptiste Glucq, related also to Jullienne (q.v.) at whose sale he acquired a number of pastels.
Dictionary, genealogies, Jullienne, Montullé
Paris, Le Brun, 22-30.XII.1783:
Lot 101: Hallé Quatre têtes de jeunes filles, pstl/ppr bl., 2 vus de face, deux de profil;
Mérelle d'après Boucher:
Lot 107: Deux Pastels, représentants, l'un Jupiter & Callipso; & l'autre Jupiter et Léda. Hauteur 22 pouces, largeur 26 pouces, sous verre;
Lot 108: Un Pastel, représentant une femme nue & couchée, détachée d'un arbre par un homme. Hauteur 22 pouces, largeur 26 pouces, sous verre;
Lot 109: La Dormeuse; & la figure qui lui fait pendant, tableaux retouchés et figuré par Boucher. Hauteur 14 pouces, largeur 11 pouces, sous verre;
Lot 110: Une femme vue à mi-corps et couchée sur son lit. Hauteur 20 pouces, largeur 16 pouces, sous verre
Charles [??; Jeanne] Natoire d'après Rosa Alba:
Lot 111: L'Hiver & le Printems, représentés par deux figures de femme, vue à mi-corps. Hauteur 17 pouces, largeur 13 pouces, sous verre
Other pastels:
Parrocel, L'ambassadeur turc, trois crayons, coloré d'un peu de pastel
Glain, Caillot; femme se regardant dans un miroir
Étienne MOREAU-NÉLATON (1859-1927), artist and collector, 73 bis faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris 8e in 1922. By donation in 1906 and bequest he gave a large collection of mainly nineteenth century pictures to the Louvre.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Paris, Chevallier, 11-15.V.1900
Lot 118: Mallet, Constance Mayer
MOREL.
Paris, Le Brun, 3.V.1786 & seq.
John Hill MORGAN (1870-1945): art historian, author of monographs on early American artists, curator of American painting at the Yale University Art Museum, to which his collection of drawings was donated by his widow.
Lit.: Sarasota 2006
Pastels: Blackburn, lady; Copley, man; Johnston, Mrs Gibbs
John Pierpont MORGAN (1837-1913), banker and collector. His rare book collection began after his father's death in 1890, and now forms the Morgan Library housed in a building he constructed in 1900. In the next 13 years he formed one of the largest collections of highly prized works of art, including in particular English and French eighteenth century paintings The collections were inherited by his son J. P. Morgan, Jr (1867-1943), but parts were disposed of (for example the miniatures were sold by Christie's, 24.VI.1935). The old master drawings collection which was acquired from Charles Fairfax Murray remains in the Morgan Library (v. Collections).
Lit.: Grove 1996
Charles-Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau, comte de MORVILLE (1686-1732), de l'Académie française, diplomat, statesman and collector. The son of Fleuriau d'Armenonville, he was ambassador to Holland before being appointed ministre de la Marine 1722, des Affaires étrangères 1723-27. He was protecteur de l'Académie de Bordeaux. He owned the celebrated Carriera pendants (inv. p.m., 8.III.1732, AN MC CXV 476); soon after his death they graced the cabinet of Jean de Boullongne, and are now in Dijon. His collection was left to his widow, née Charlotte-Élizabeth de Vienne (1687-1761); inv. p.m., 7.I.1762; it also included two pastels by Coypel, Maroulle; L'Amour précepteur.
Dictionary, genealogy Fleuriau
Louis-Gustave MÜHLBACHER (1834-a.1907), industrialist and art collector. The Mühlbacher coach business was founded in Paris in 1797 by a carrossier from Strasbourg, and it became one of the most prestigious coach-makers in Paris, supplying Napoléon III and royal families across Europe.
Paris, 28.II.- 5.III.1881: sale of 1158 prints
Paris, Chevallier, 15-18.V.1899:
Lot 61: La Tour, attr., femme, hst; Lot 156: La Tour, auto; Lot ?: Le Barbier, fille
Vente p.m., Paris, Chevalier, Lair-Dubreuil, 13-15.V.1907:
Lot 33: Labille-Guiard, jeune femme
Mr Charles Allen MUNN (1881-1924), editor of Scientific American: An extensive collection of Americana, including drawings by Trumbull, Peale and Benjamin West, is now in the Fordham University Libraries. Two pastels by Du Simitière were owned in 1922. Two by Sharples, among a large collection of painting, prints and silver, were donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1924.
Lit.: C. Louise Avery, H. B. Wehle and Alice Newlin "The Charles Allen Munn Bequest", The Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin, xx/1, .I.1925, pp. 17-26
Charles Fairfax MURRAY (1849-1919), painter, pupil of Burne-Jones and Rossetti. In 1873 Ruskin sent him to Rome and Siena to copy frescoes, and he settled in Florence. He was active as a portraitist, but also as a dealer, advising Colnaghi and Agnew. His collection of more than 1400 old master drawings was bought by J. P. Morgan (q.v.) in 1910.
Sir John MURRAY SCOTT (1847-1912), eldest son of a physician based in Boulogne; he became Sir Richard Wallace's secretary and after his death, advisor to his widow. He was the residual legatee for her estate, which included all the collections apart from those at Hertford House. He was instrumental in establishing the Wallace Collection and was also a trustee of the National Gallery. One pastel was in his sister's sale in 1942.
Pastels: a/r Liotard, Belle chocolatière
Miss K. T. Scott; Willis's, 27.VIII.1942
Lot 127: C. Van Loo, lady
M. M***
Paris, Boileau, Paillet, 9.IV.1793 & seq.:
Lot 174: copie d'après Boucher: Deux petits morceaux ovales, peints au pastel
Chevalier de M***
Paris, 15.III.1852:
Lot 16: La Tour, inconnues
A. M...
Paris, 16-17.III.1857:
Lot 128: La Tour, inconnue
Ernest NAEF, from Geneva, acquired the château de Mont, Mont-sur-Rolle in 1911. The château had belonged to a Liotard subject, Joseph Bouër, in the eighteenth century. Ernest's son Bernard, author on Liotard, gave a pastel by Dupan to the Société des arts in Geneva in 1984.
Pastels: Dupan, Sellon; Liotard, Mlle Lavergne; Maria Theresia; Dame turque; Petitot, Sterky; hommes (2); femmes (2)
Charles-Joseph NATOIRE (1700-1777), peintre. In 1751 he returned to Rome as directeur of the Académie de France; the anonymous sale of pictures from the collection of "M. Natoire, faite avant son départ pour Rome" contained a number of pastels, mostly without attributions.
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Paris, 11.IX.1751:
[Anon:]
Lot 181: 2 Pastels en ovale bordure dorées et verres. [48 livres]
Lot 220: Deux Pastels, une chanteuse & [?]. [250 livres; Joullain]
Lot 221: Natoire, Deux Sujets de M. Natoire en Pastel. [562 livres 1 sol]
Lot 222: Sujets d'après Watteau en pastel [120 livres; Huls]
Lot 223: Bacchus et Adrianne en ovale en largeur en pastel [250 livres 5 sols avec le lot 232]
Lot 224: Une [sic] pastel [124 livres]
Lot 225: Une Païsanne d'après La Rosalba [30 livres]
Lot 226: Repos de Diane Pastel
Lot 227: Deux pendans d'après Rubens et Wandick pastel [60 livres; Devins]
Lot 228: La victoire pastel
Lot 229: Une dame tenant un bouquet, pastel
Lot 230: Une dame d'après Larosalba, pastel [48 livres]
Lot 231: Un Tableau de Fleurs pastel [18 livres; Joullain]
Lot 232: Triomphe d'Amphitrite pastel [250 livres 5 sols avec le lot 223]
Lot 233: Une petite nimphe en buste pastel [54 livres]
Lot 234: Une dame tenant un Peroquet pastel [30 livres]
Mansuetus de NECKER, Dutch cleric.
Brugge, François Eeck, 12-14.I.1802:
Lot 99: [Anon.]: Un Solitaire et une Pièce en Pastel
Jan Izaak. de NEUFVILLE BRANTS (1768-1807), Amsterdam, grandson of the Amsterdam collector Jan Isaac de Neufville (1706-1772), of Herengracht 130. His major collection of Dutch pictures was inherited by the banker Jan Jacob Brants, who married Anna Maria de Neufville (1742-1813). A number of Troost pastels from the de Bruijn collection were with J. S. de Neufville Brants in 1829, and may have been acquired by Jan Izaak c.1798.
Pol-Louis NEVEUX (1865-1939), romancier, inspecteur général des bibliothèques de France. He lent a La Tour inconnue to the Paris 1927a exhibition. His widow bequeathed some French XVIIIe furniture to the musée des Beaux-Arts in his native Reims, and his large collection of sale catalogues is now in the bibliothèque municipale.
Lady Dorothy NEVILL (1826-1913): daughter of Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, she was a collector of plants and pictures
and a well-known salonnière, entertaining politicians and society figures with her finely honed conversation. Her son Ralph edited her memoirs.
The Perronneau which she sold to Duveen, now in the National Gallery, seems to have been acquired by her husband, her cousin Reginald Henry Nevill (1807-1878), who
"was very fond of pastels and bought at a time when they were not valued as they are now."
Lit.: Lady Dorothy Nevill, "My collection", Connoisseur, II, 1902, pp. 151–57
London, Christie's, 13.VI.1913
Pastels: Carriera, Walpole; Hoare, Sir Edward Walpole; Perronneau, jeune fille au chat
NEYMAN, Amsterdam. His sale included 1266 drawings. Apart from these, he owned another six Troost scenes which he acquired in the Johan van der Marck sale, 1773.
Paris, Basan, 8-11.VII.1776
Lot 1064: H. van der Mijn, femme; Lot ?Troost, 2 scènes
Henry Fiennes Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln, 2nd Duke of NEWCASTLE (1720-1794): The collection of pictures at Clumber included pastels by Carriera, Hoare and Lion; they are now in Nottingham, University Art Gallery (q.v.).
Dictionary, genealogies, Clinton; Pelham
Lit.: Nottingham 1992
Grand Duke NIKOLAI MIKHAILOVICH (1859-1919), historian, cousin of Tsar Alexander III, Mikhailovsky Palace, Petrograd. His art collection was seized after his execution, and entered the Hermitage in 1923.
Pastels: J. P. Bardou, Galitzin; Geiger, Maximilian I.; Grassi, P. P. & E. A. Bakunin; German sch., Dame
Pierre de NOLHAC (1859-1936), de l'Académie française, conservateur au château de Versailles 1887-1920, directeur du musée Jacquemart-André, 1920, author.
Sir Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount NORTHCLIFFE 1918 (1865-1922sp), v.q. Harmsworth. His wife, Mary Elisabeth Milner ( -1963), married Sir Robert Hudson in 1923.
London, Christie's, 20.IV.1923:
Lot 48: Labille-Guiard, auto [Mme Mitoire]
M. de NORZY, agent de change, collectionneur.
Paris, 12-17.III.1860
Jean-Baptiste-François NOURRI (1697-c.1784), secrétaire du roi, conseiller au parlement de Paris, art collector. His posthumous sale included 168 paintings and 1037 lots of drawings (among them a Leonardo).
Lit.: Favre-Lejeune; Lise Bicart-Sée, "Some archival references for Jean-Baptiste-François Nourri", Master drawings, XLV/1, 2007
Paris, 1779:
Patel, neuf paysages
Vente p.m., Paris, 24.II.- 14.III.1785:
Antoine Coypel, femme; some pastels
Livio ODESCALCHI, duca di Ceri e di Bracciano (1653-1713), collector. His inventory (Rome, 1713) included a "pastel" by Mola.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Getty provenance index
Mme OGER, née Louise-Suzanne de Bréart ( -1886), mistress of the 4th Marquess of Hertford (q.v.), who previously owned the Coypel pastel in her sale.
Paris, 14 place Malesherbes, 17-22.V.1886:
Lot 11: Coypel, L'Amour précepteur
Julius OEHME Galleries, New York (fl.1908): handled pastels by Russell.
Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán, Conde-Duque de OLIVARES (1629-1687), ambassador to Rome 1674-82 and Naples 1682-87, art collector. Most of the sheets described as pastels in his inventory are probably chalk drawings.
Dictionary, genealogy Guzmán
Inv., Rome, 7.IX.1682 - 1.I.1683; inv., Naples, 17.XI.1687 - 20.II.1688
Pastels: Correggio, testa; Leonardo, testa; Mola, 3 pstls; Reni, 2 pstls; Rosa, 4 pstls; Zuccaro, 2 pstls; Italian sch., testa
Dr Hugo OLTRAMARE (1887-1957), Geneva, member of the executive committee of the Croix-Rouge, grandson of Gustave Ador (1845-1928), president of the Croix-Rouge.
Pastels: Petitot, femme
Cardinal Luigi Alessandro OMODEI (1608-1685), art collector, patron of Poussin.
Inv., Rome 2.V.1685
Pastels: Barocci
Mme OROSDI. Possibly the widow of Léon Orosdi, whose collection of modern French pictures was sold p.m. in Paris, Drouot, 25.V.1923 (v. Henri Lapauze, "La Collection de Léon Orosdi", La Renaissance de l'art français, Paris, .V.1923). Of Austro-Hungarian origin, the Orosdi family made its fortune in retailing and perfume exporting.
Pastels: Perronneau, Tassin
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of ORFORD (1717-1797), connoisseur, writer and collector. Third son of Sir Robert Walpole, prime minister, he undertook a Grand Tour from 1737 to 1741 with the poet Thomas Gray. In Venice he sat to Rosalba Carriera In Florence he met Horace Mann, as on a later trip to France he met Mme du Deffand, and Walpole's correspondence with these and other friends is his lasting monument. His inheritance on his father's death allowed him to lead the life of a connoisseur, cataloguing Sir Robert's art collection and creating his own Gothic fantasy at Strawberry Hill. He finally inherited his father's title in 1791. His collection descended to Earl Waldgrave, and much of it sold in 1842.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Ketton-Cremer 1940; Adams & Lewis 1970; Mowl 1996; Brownell 2001
Eleventh day's sale - 6.V.1842 (pp. 113-23)
Lot 69: Mrs Tonelli: Portrait of two young ladies [?b/i; no price recorded]
Thirteenth day's sale - 9.V.1842 (pp. 132-39)
The collection of cabinet pictures and drawings
Lot 1. Rosalba: Lady Brown, crayons [1 gn]; Lot 21: Rosalba: Madame Suarez, a Florentine beauty, exquisitly drawn and finished [2 gns; Thorne]; Lot 43: Rosalba, Corregio's Magdalen, a beautiful drawing in crayons, from this extraordinary picture [£11/-/6; Sell]
Eighteenth day's sale - 14.V.1842 (pp. 179-86)
The pictures, drawings, models &c. in the Green Closet
Lot 73: Joseph Harris, the comedian, in the character of Cardinal Wolsey [£5; Forster]
Hamilton: Lot 88: Lady Mary Bruce, Duchess of Richmond, crayons; Lot 89: Anne Chambers, Countess Temple, crayons [£1/4/- the pair; Forster]
Lot 98: Sir Jeffrey Barwell, grandfather of Sir Robert Walpole, and Mary his wife, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Derchaugh of Colton Hall, Suffolk [£2/10/-; Forster]
Lot 108: Sir John Shorter and his lady, pair, crayons; Lot 109: Sir Robert Walpole's father and mother, pair, crayons [15/- the pair; Forster]
Twentieth day's sale - 17.V.1842 (pp. 195-206)
The interesting pictures of the Library, Holbein Chamber and Great North Bed Chamber
Lot 2: Sir Robert Walpole when a boy, crayons [£2; Dent]
Twenty-first day's sale - 18.V.1842 (pp. 207-18)
Pictures and portraits, in old carved frames
Rosalba: Lot 1: Six curious and interesting sketches, drawn at Venice, Portraits of the Earl of Lincoln, Horace Walpole, John Chute, Joseph Spence, Mr Chaloner and Mr Whitdsend [Whithed] [1½ gns; Cholmondeley]; Lot 3: A curious drawing, Group of Heads, sketch for the story of Diana and Calisto [5/-; Wheeler]; Lot 73: John Low [Law], the inventor of the Mississipi scheme, and Prime Minister to the regent, Philip, Duke of Orleans, crayons, glazed, considered one of the best pictures of this master [18 gns; Brown]; Lot 74 [73* in 2nd ed.]: Francis Seymour Conway, Earl of Hertford, in court costume, glazed [15 gns; Fuller]; Lot 86: Lady Sophia Fermor, as the Goddess Juno, crayons, eldest daughter of Thomas Earl of Pomfret, and second wife of John Earl of Granville, Prime Minister to George II [13 gns; ?Foster]
[added in 2nd ed.]: Liotard: Lot 74: Bashaw Bonneval, in crayons, and glazed [1½ gns; Luxmoore]; Lot 74*: Henry Fox, Lord Holland, in crayons, and glazed [4½ gns; Colnaghi]
Twenty-second day's sale - 19.V.1842 (pp. 219-28)
Pictures and drawings
Lot 8: Barwell Walpole, elder brother of Sir Robert [14/-; Money]
Lot 10: Horace Walpole, when a child, in a white frock, drawn about 1720, crayons coloured drawing [10/-; ?Bell]
Lot 52: Madame de Prie, with a Bird, crayons, a charming picture [?b/i; no price recorded]
Lot 56: Russell: Diana, a clever drawing in crayons [5 gns; Jeremy]
Philippe, duc d'ORLÉANS (1674-1723), regent during the minority of Louis XV, started his collection while duc de Chartres. He is said to have learned painting from Antoine Coypel, an artist whom employed to decorate the Palais-Royal which housed the Orléans collection and where Rosalba Carriera was welcomed on her trip to Paris in 1720-21. On Coypel's death in 1722 his son Charles was appointed premier peintre du duc d'Orléans. The next duc, Louis (1703-1752), supported Nattier, while his son Louis-Philippe (1725-1785) was particularly intersted in architecture. His son Philippe-Égalité (1747-1793) succeeded to the title at a time of political and financial turmoil, and in 1790 he asked James Christie to purchase the Orléans paintings collection. for 100,000 guineas In the event they pased through the hands of a Belgian banker, then to Laborde (q.v.) before being sold in a difficult market in London over the next decade. Many of the family portraits were left, and Vatout's catalogue includes a number of pastels.
Dictionary, genealogy, France
Lit.: Reitlinger 1961; Grove 1996
Jean Vatout, Catalogue historique et descriptif des tableaux appartenans à S.A.S. Mgr le duc d'Orléans, Paris, 1823-26, 4 vol.
193. Marie-Victoire-Sophie de Noailles, comtesse de Toulouse
193 quater. La même, au pastel, 24 p. x 19 p.
215. Mlle de Clermont peint en 1823 par Sophie Allard d'après le pastel de Rosalba
215 bis. La même au pastel par la Rosalba, 20 p. x 16 p. (PR)
216. Mlle de Charolais
216 bis. La même au pastel par la Rosalba, 21 p. x 16 p. (PR)
218. La Rosalba peint en 1823 par M. Laby d'après le pastel peint par elle-même
178 [i.e.218] bis. La même au pastel par la Rosalba, 27 p. x 20 p. (PR)
226. Louis-Philippe duc d'Orléans, equestre, par Roslin, 112 p. x 88 p.
226 bis. Le même, Nattier
216 5°. Le même par Mme Lebrun
216 6°. Le même par Mme Lebrun
216 8°. Le même (au pastel), 21 p. x 17 p. (PR)
227. Louise-Henriette de Bourbon-Conty, duchesse d'Orléans, en Hébé, par Nattier
227 6°. La même au pastel, 17 p. x 14 p. (PR)
230. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
230 bis. La même peint par M. le comte Louis de Girardin, d'après La Tour, 11 p. x 8 p. (PR)
240. Marie-Thérèse-Louise de Savoie-Carignan, princesse de Lamballe, par Mlle Victorine Lemoine
240 ter. La même, en peignoir, au pastel, 20 p. x 17 p. (PR)
251. Stéphanie-Félicité Ducrest, comtesse de Genlis, 37 p. x 30 p. (PR)
251 bis. La même, au pastel, 24 p. x 20 p. (PR)
258. Antoine-Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier
258 quater. Le même, pastel, peint à Newyork, en 1797 par M. Sharples, 9 p. x 8 p. (PR)
259. Louis-Charles d'Orléans, comte de Beaujolais
259 ter. Le même, ovale au pastel, 22 p. x 18 p. (PR)
259 5°. Le même, au pastel par M. Sharples New York 1797, 9 p. x 8 p. (PR)
260. [Eugénie-Adélaïde-Louise] Mlle d'Orléans
260 ter. La même au pastel, 21 p. x 17 p.
Inconnus:
22. Une femme en deshabillé, caressant un chat, (Pastel), 20 p. x 16 p. (PR)
ORRY, comte de Vignory (1689-1747), ministre d'État, contrôleur général, directeur des Bâtiments du roi 1737-45. Financial pressures on the state's funds prevented Orry from spending liberally at the Bâtiments, but he was instrumental in establishing annual salons at the Académie royale. La Tour's pastel of him was shown in 1745. He also ensured that Lundberg was reçu despite the religious obstacle.
Lit.: Grove 1996
Principessa ORSINI [des Ursins], née Anne-Marie de la Trémoïlle-Noirmoutier (1641-1722). A number of unattributed pastels were in her estate inventory (Rome, 1723) and subsequent Orsini inventories (9.XII.1822).
Ortiz-Patiño, v. Patiño
Charles-Clément OULMONT (1883-1984), professeur à la Sorbonne, writer, musician and art historian, author of monograph on Heinsius, friend of the painter Eugène Carrière, a number of whose works he donated to the musée de Saint-Cloud in 1969. Charles was the nephew of Paul Oulmont (1849-1917), a medical doctor from Épinal based in Paris, and assisted him in creating the collection of French drawings donated to the musée d'Épinal in 1917
Literature: Épinal 2007
Pastels (CO): Coypel, Lecouvreur; Ducreux, auto; Frédou, Foulon;
Pastels (PO): Lenoir, Foulon; Vigée, du Boisbaudry
Richard OWEN, Paris art dealer, lent pastels by Oudry (paysage) and Boucher (Mme Favart) to Paris exhibitions in 1927 and 1929. He also owned a Rosalba femme, and a version of Fragonard's Adeline Colombe. His photographic archive is now at Harvard.
Lit.: French drawings of the 18th century from the collection of Richard Owen of Paris, Rhode Island School of Design, 20.I.-3.II.1933, exh.
Basil Heneage Dixwell OXENDEN (1874-1919), collector; his pictures were inherited by his sister, Lady Capel Cure (q.v.).
Lit.: Manners 1915
Pastels: Ashfield, Sir James & Lady Arabella Oxenden
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of OXFORD (1689-1741), connoisseur, collector and patron.
Pastels: Faithorne, Sturt
PAIGNON DIJONVAL.
Lit.: Bénard, Cabinet de M. Paignon-Dijonval, Catalogue, 1810:
3383: Boucher, deux femmes; 3540: Pierre, Dix têtes de vieillards, femmes et enfants, pastel, 11 pouces sur 8 pouces; 8428: La Tour, Prince Charles
Vente p.m., Paris, Bonnefonds, 17.XII.1821 & seq.
Mme de PAIMPART.
Paris, Drouot, 18.III.1908:
Lot 1: Allais, inconnue 1752
Edward Grosvenor PAINE (1911-c.1989), based in London, 106 East 60th Street, New York, and Jackson Square, New Orleans. Trained as a milliner, he became a dealer and collector of portrait miniatures. He disappeared under mysterious circumstances. He owned a pastel by Sharples (Summers).
London, Christie's, 15.X.1996
Jacques-Augustin-Catherine PAJOU (1766-1828), painter, son of the sculptor.
Vente p.m., Paris, 12.I.1829:
Lot 104: La Tour, 4 dessins
Félix PANHARD (1842-1891): collector of miniatures, including some copied after Vigée Le Brun and Boze pastels.
Paris, Galliera, 5.XII.1975
Henry PANNIER, Paris. With his brothers Georges and Gaston, Pannier owned L'Escalier de Cristal, a decorative arts workshop that made objects in metal and glass under the influence of oriental design. He was also interested in art history, contributing a catalogue of Fragonard works at auction to Nolhac's monograph. He owned several pastels formerly in the Favart family, some via Mme Lambotte.
Lit.: Lemoisne 1918; Céline Lefranc, "À l'Escalier de cristal", Connaissance des arts, 638, 2006, pp. 94-99
Pastels: Mme Favart, Favart, père; La Tour, Saxe; Liotard, Favart
Denis-Pierre-Jean PAPILLON DE LA FERTÉ (1727-1794). As intendant des Menus-Plaisirs from 1756 he was responsible for commissioning a number of pastels. He was also an amateur draughtsman and collector.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Grove 1996
Paris, Le Brun, 20.II.1793
Henri PARGUEZ: historian, author of several monographs on Poissy; lent a pastel by Regnault (homme) to the Paris 1927a exhibtion.
Louis PASQUIER ( -1755), négociant à Rouen, député du commerce de Rouen à Paris, collector.
Vente p.m., Paris, Remy, 10.III.1755 & seq.:
Lot 5: Rosalba Carriera, Deux Tableaux, peints en pastel, par Mlle Rosalba, de 24 pouces de haut sur 18 de large. Ils sont traités allégoriquement; l'un représente la Paix, & l'autre la Justice, composés chacun de 2 Figures, vues à demi corps. Ils viennent du Cabinet de feu M. le Cardinal de Polignac, qui les apporta de Rome. Ils peuvent être regardés sans contredit, comme des chef-d'oeuvres de cette habile Artiste. Ils sont sous glace, 24 pouces de haut sur 18 de large [2416 livres; Godefroy pour le duc de Tallard]
Mme Anne-Marie PASSEZ, author of monographs on Mme Labille-Guiard and Vestier.
La Flèche, Hôtel des ventes, Manson, 22.IV.2001:
Lot 131: Capet, homme
Tours, Odent, 25.VI.2001:
Lot 44: Hoin, Mme Hoin
Antenor PATIÑO (1896-1962), Bolivian tin magnate and art collector. He was married to the duquesa de Dúrcal, and their daughters married the prince de Beauvau-Craon and Sir James Goldsmith. Patiño acquired La Tour's Mme Rouillé from his compatriot Granier-Ballivián c.1927. A Nattier pastel (Mme Royer), acquired from Bardac, descended to his nephew Jaime Ortiz-Patiño (1929- ) before its sale in 1992. Important sales of rare books and silver followed in 1998.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Paul-Émile-Marius PAULME (1863-1928), one of the most influential experts in French eighteenth century drawings. He formed the largest single collection of drawings by J.-A.-M. Lemoine, having "une particulière prédilection" for this artist. Gimpel commented dismissively of the "prix énormes pour ces petites cochonneries" in the 1923 sale. His main sale, in 1929, included a small number of pastels, one of which (Perronneau, d'Aubais) is visible on the wall in his study (10, rue Chauchat) in a contemporary photograph. A further sale took place in 1949 after the death of his widow, née Léontine-Marie-Marguerite Barjot (1869-1948).
Lit.: Lugt 1910, 1910S; Le Gaulois Artistique, 28.V.1929, p. 310; Gimpel 1963; Donateurs 1989
Paris, 23.XI.1923
Paris, Georges Petit, F. Lair Dubreil, 13-15.V.1929:
La Tour, Lot 119: auto; Lot 120: Rousseau; Lot 121: jeune femme; Lot 195: Perronneau, d'Aubais; Rosalba Carriera, Lot 225-226, L'Hiver; & L'Automne; Lot 227: jeune femme
Vente succession, Paris, Drouot, Ader, 23-24.III.1949
Abate Giuseppe PAULUCCI. His inventory (Rome, 8.III.1695) included "pastels" by Mola.
PAWSEY & PAYNE: London art dealers active in the first half of the 20th century, supplying clients such as James Thursby-Pelham (q.v.).
Ricardo PENARD Y FERNANDEZ (1882-1960), collector, born in Buenos Aires, of 21 rue Cognacq-Jay, allied to Pierre Verlet.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Isaac PEREIRE (1806-1880) and his brother Émile (1800-1875) were important bankers, financing the early development of the French railway system and founding the Compagnie des Paquebots transatlantiques. A sale took place (Paris, 6-9.III.1872) of works belonging to the brothers as Galerie Pereire. Isaac, Émile's son Henry (1841-1932) and grandson André (1891-1987) were all donors to the Louvre of old master paintings, drawings, antiquities and objets d'art. A version of La Tour's pastel of Duval was acquired by one of the Pereires at the Beurnonville sale in 1881, as of Buffon; they also owned a préparation for the Duval pastel.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Pastels: La Tour, Duval (2)
Johann Anton de PETERS (1725-1795), peintre en miniature, pastellist.
Dictionary, artist
Paris, Remy, Basan, 9.III.1779 & seq.
Lot 110: Boucher, deux femmes, "l'une représente une femme, vue de face demi-raccourci. On la nomme la Thérese", 12 p. x 9 p. [La Dormeuse & La Voluptueuse]
La comtesse de PÉTHION: bought two dozen sheets at the Goncourt sale, including two Van Loo drawings with pastel.
Paris, Lair-Dubreuil, 14-17.V.1902:
Lot 22 bis: Van Loo fillettes
Galerie Georges PETIT, Paris. Established as a picture dealer in 1846 by François Petit ( -1877), it was taken over by his son Georges ( -1920) in 1877. Its spacious premises were at 8, rue de Sèze, and numerous presitigious auctions were held there in preference to the Hôtel Drouot. After Petit's death, the business was continued (by Étienne Bignou and Gaston and Josse Bernheim-Jeune) until it finally closed in 1933.
Louis PETIT DE BACHAUMONT (1690-1771), writer and critic, with a particular interest in art. He was Crozat's executor, a friend of Charles Coypel and a supporter of Boucher, and his views on the administration of the arts were regularly submitted to the surintendants des Bâtiments and others. His lasting monument is the series of Memoires secrets which were continued by several other writers after his death. In his salon critiques he showed a decided preference for La Tour, who had exhibited his portrait, over Perronneau. In 1748 he expressed concern over the longevity of pastels, and recommended they be fixed using La Tour's secret method.
Lit.: Chatelus 1991, pp. 305ff; Grove 1996; Burns 2007
Charles PETIT DE MEURVILLE ( -1927), lawyer, of 4 rue Montesquieu, Bordeaux, collector of pictures, sculpture, objets d'art etc.. Parts of his collection were presented to the musée des Beaux-Arts and the musée du vieux Bordeaux. His 1904 sale contained an unusually large number of pastels.
Paris, Drouot, Lair-Dubreuil, 26-28.V.1904:
Lot 24: Labille Guiard [Hall], Mme Roland de Villarceaux; Lot 24 bis: Mlle Roland de Villarceaux, fille de la
précédente; Lot 30 bis: La Tour, école, homme; Lot 30 ter: femme; Lot 36: Mlle Loir, femme;
Lot 37, femme; Lot 44: Perronneau,: Camiran; Lot 45, jeune femme [?marquise d'Anglure]; Lot 46: Pillement,
paysages, 2 pendants; Lot 47: Pougin de Saint-Aubin, femme en savoyarde; Lot 48: Roslin, attr., homme; Lot 49:
Roslin, école: femme; Lot 58: Vestier, Lamour et sa femme; Lot 59: Mme Vigée Le Brun, école, femme;
Lot 60: Vigée, homme; Lot 61: Anon., peintures ou pastels non catalogués
Jacques PETITHORY: donated an important collection of drawings to the musée Bonnat.
Paris 1997c
Pastels: Luti, tête de femme
Louis-François PETIT-RADEL (1740-1818), landscape and architectural painter, pupil of De Wailly; inspecteur général des musées nationaux.
Paris, Petitcuénot, Dubois, 8 February 1819 & seq.
Lot 101: Greuze, attr., Une tête de jeune fille, peinte au pastel. Hauteur, 38 centimètres
Anna Maria, Marchesa PETROSINI MINUTILLI CAFFARELLI. Her estate inventory (Rome, 14.IV.1731) included eight pastels by Parmigianino, no doubt chalk drawings.
Paula Fentriss PEYRAUD (1947–2008), of Chappaqua, New York, collector specialising in books and pictures relating to English Georgian writers, in particular the Burney family, Jane Austen, Mrs Thrale, Maria Edgeworth, Hannah More, Johnson, Garrick, Thrale and Burney.
New York, Bloomsbury, 6.V.2009:
Lot 7: Beauclerk, boy; Lot 18: Cotes, Mrs Burges;
Sir Thomas PHILIPPS, Bt (1792-1872), antiquary and bibliophile, of Thirlestane House, Cheltenham; trustee of the British Museum; some of his collection passed to his grandson, Thomas Fizroy Fenwick (q.v.)
Pastels: Lutterell, man 1694
Le baron Jérôme PICHON (1812-1896), président de la Société des bibliophiles françois.
Paris, 29.III.-10.IV.1897:
Lot 47: La Tour, Mme de Pomadour; Lot 1405: Ducreux, Louis XVII
M. PIGACHE, négociant, marchand de vin en gros, collector in particular of natural history. The catalogue of his collection was illustrated by Saint-Aubin.
A portrait of a Mme Pigache by Glain descended to the writer Lucie Coueffin from Bayeux.
Paris, Chariot, Joullain, 21.X.1776 & seq.:
Boucher:
Lot 432: Vénus couchée; elle est nue, vue de face & tient une colombe: dessin au pastel, 14 p. x 19 p. [69 livres]
Lot 435: Un joli buste de femme, vu de face, au pastel, 11 p. x 9 p.
Lot 436: Un groupe de deux enfans volans, au pastel, 14 p. x 11 p. [12 livres 16 sols]
Lot 473: Deux jolies têtes de femmes, de profil; elles sont au pastel & sont pendans, 8 p. x 5 p. 6 [38 livres 10 sols]
Lot 476: Un groupe de trois amours volans, l'un d'eux tient une guirlande de laurier & une fleche; à la pierre noire mêlé de pastel, 11 p. 6 x 8 p. 6 [36 livres 4 sols]
Chantreau
Lot 482: Quatre différentes compositions & études, à la pierre noire & au pastel [3 livres 1 sol]
Armand-Edmond PIGALLE (1844-1921), préfet honoraire d'Alger, légion d'honneur. He lent pastels of Baron Martin's parents by Prud'hon to the Paris 1908a exhibition. A third Prud'hon pastel was bequeathed to the musée Baron Martin in 1921. His mother was a Martin.
Jean-Baptiste PIGALLE (1714-1785), sculptor and collector.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Chardin 1979
Inv. p.m., AN lvii, 574, 29.VIII.1785
Isidore PILS (1813-1875), peintre.
Paris, Boussaton, 20.III.-1.IV.1876:
Lot 1058: La Tour, Pompadour
Dominique PINEAU (1718-1786), de l'Académie de Saint-Luc, decorator and maître-sculpteur. Pastels by Mérelle of members of this family, and by Nattier of Dominque's daughter, Mme Moreau le jeune, indicate a predilection for the medium.
Lit.: Emile Biais, ed., Les Pineau, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs des Batiments du Roy, Graveurs, Architectes (1652-1886), Paris, 1892
Paris, Sauvgrain, 28.III.1786
Cardinale Carlo PIO DI SAVOIA (1622-1689) a member of a Roman family which formed one of the great private art collections in the 17th century. Apart from 126 old master paintings which remained in Rome and are now in the Capitoline Museum, Prince Gilberto moved most of the collection to Madrid in the middle of the 18th century. A few pictures and a large collection of furniture and objets were disposed of from the estate of Princess Pio De Savoia in a series of sales in London c.2000.
Inv. Rome, 1.III.1689
Pastels: Barocci
London, Sotheby's, 5.VII.2000:
Lot 250 Folower of Carriera, lady; Lot 251: Italian sch., Maria Teresa; Lot 252: Bigatti, 2 pstls
Jacques PINGAT ( -1751), peintre de l'Académie de Saint-Luc, and art dealer in Paris. He was assoicated with Gersaint, and employed
Pierre Rémy, the leading expert of the next generation. His stock was inventoried after the death of his wife, Catherine de Mortain, in 1733,
and again after his own, 2.IV.1751; his hier was his brother, Michel Pingat. The 1751 inventory contained "son portrait au pastel" and
"un autre portrait du même".
Lit.: Glorieux 2002; Guiffrey 1915; Marandet 2003
Stéphane PIOT, 83 boulevard Hausmann, Paris 8e in 1922
Camille PLANTEVIGNES, a wealthy tie-maker; collector, particularly of silver. Proust challenged him to a duel over some remarks made by his son Marcel Plantevignes.
Pastels: La Tour, Dumont le romain
Cornelis PLOOS VAN AMSTEL (1726-1798), collector, son-in-law of Cornelis Troost, who made a pastel portrait of him.
Dictionary, genealogy
Pastels: Lely, chancellor
Mathias POLAKOVITS (1921-1987), connoisseur and collector. More than 3000 French drawings from his collection were donated to the École nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
Lit.: Princeton 1977; Paris 1989a
Pastels: Vigée Le Brun, étude pour La Paix
Christiane de POLÈS ( -1936). In addition to the pictures and a number of exceptional pieces of XVIIIe furniture sold in her 1927 sale, that year Mme de Polès sold a Velasquez to Wildesntein; it is now in the NGA, Washington.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 22-24.VI.1927:
Lot 7: Copypel, auto
Vente succession, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 17-18.XI.1936
La princesse Edmond de POLIGNAC, née Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943), heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune, amateur artist and
early enthusiast for Manet. She married first prince Louis de Scey-Montbeliard and then, in 1893, entered into a "marriage blanc" with prince
Edmond de Polignac (1834-1901), companion of comte Robert de Montesquiou and an amateur composer. Their salon at 3 rue Cortambert, Paris was
particularly important musically, with new works performed by composers from Fauré to Poulenc, and is now the seat of the Fondation
Singer-Polignac. Edmond's nephew comte Jean de Polignac (1888-1943), owner of a La Tour autopotrait, married the daughter of the dress
designer Jeanne Lanvin; they too were actively interested in music and art, supporting Poulenc in particular. A sale of Souvenirs de Mme Lanvin et de sa fille, la
comtesse Jean de Poulignac (Paris, 8.XII.2008) included a number of anonymous pastels.
Thérèse, princesse de Polignac (1916- ) married Pedro de Barros in 1948; she owned a Vigée Le Brun pastel (duchesse de Guiche).
The Vigée Le Brun pastels of the two Polignac children were also in the family until 2004.
Lit.: M. de Coosart, "Princesse Edmond de Polignac, patron and artist", Apollo, .VIII.1975, pp. 133-35; Donateurs 1989; Sylvia Kahan, Music's modern muse: a life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, Rochester, 2003
v.q. Fellowes
L'abbé François-Emmanuel POMMYER (1713-1784), honoraire amateur de l'Académie royale de peinture, collector of paintings by Chardin, friend of La Tour and Cochin.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Jeffares 2001
Pastels: La Tour, Pommyer; Nattier, Maupeou
La marquise de POMPADOUR, née Jeanne-Antoinette (1721-1764). She became mistress of Louis XV in 1745, and played a central role in the arts for the rest of her life. Her protector Le Normant de Tournehem (she was married to his nephew) was appointed directeur général des bâtiments in 1745, and her brother, the marquis de Marigny, succeeded him in 1751. She was an amateur engraver, an activity alluded to in La Tour's monumental portrait of her in the Louvre. In view of her enlightened interest, it is perhaps surprising that there were few pastels in her own collection.
Dictionary, genealogy France; Lenormant; Poisson
Lit.: Émile Campardon, Madame de Pomadour et la cour de Louis XV, 1867; Versailles 2002
Inv. p.m. (AN MC LVI 113-4, 26.VII.1764), ed. Jean Cordey, Paris, 1939
Paris, Remy, 28.IV.1766:
Lot 56: Coypel, Un Repos en Égypte, peint en pastel par Charles Coypel. Il est sous glace et porte 22 pouces de haut sur 27 de large.
POPE
Vente p.m., Paris, Le Brun, 30.I.1792
Sir John Wyndham POPE-HENNESSY (1913–1994), Italian renaaissance scholar, director of the V&A 1967–73, British Museum 1974–76, curator at MMA
London, Christie's, 7.VII.1998, Lot 85: Vanni, Crogi
Albert PORCHER (1834-1895), painter from Orléans. He owned four Perronneaus (M. & Mme Chevotet; M. & Mme Demadières) which he lent to the Orléans 1876 exhibition.
Henri PORGÈS [=? Henri (Heinrich) Porgès (1828-1901), 16, rue François Ier, Paris, born in Vienna, moved to Paris, brother of Jules (1839-1921), diamond magnate (his business became the De Beers Company), art collector.
Paris, 9.V.1885:
Lot 72: La Tour attr., inconnue
Baron Roger PORTALIS (1841-1912), art historian, author of numerous monographs on French XVIIIe artists (Fragonard, Hoin, Labille-Guiard) and co-author with Henri Béraldi (q.v.) of Les Graveurs du xviiie siècle.
Lit.: Lugt 2232
Paris, Chevallier, 14.III.1887:
Lot 133: La Tour, inconnue
Paris, Drouot, Lair-Dureuil, 2-3.II.1911:
Lot ?: Hoin, homme; Lot 121: Hoin, femme
Other pastels: Ducreux, auto; Greuze, jeune fille
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of PORTLAND (1709-1762) married Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley (1715-1785), one of the most avid collectors of both fine art and natural history. Her posthumous sale (London, Skinner, 24.IV.-8.VI.1786) lasted 38 days, and included the Portland Vase now in the British Museum. The remaining collections, exhibited at the Harley Gallery at Welbeck, are particularly rich in portrait miniatures. The Bentinck family commissioned pastels from artists from Pond to Perronneau.
Dictionary, genealogy, Bentinck
Lit.: Goulding 1936
Pastels: v. Collections, s.n. Welbeck
Claude POTIER, lawyer, wealthy collector of pictures, drawings and prints; 8 Marie Moreau ( -a.1755).
Lit.: Marandet 2003
Vente p.m.: Paris, Helle & Glomy, 28.II.-15.III.1757:
Lot 55 [part]: Quatre Desseins Vénitiens; savoir un bain de Diane du Tintoret, d'une belle composition & d'une touche legere: un portrait au pastel du Padouan; une feuille d'Etudes parfaitement dessinée à la plume, & lavée de bistre, du jeune Palme; & une belle composition, dans la maniere du Zuccaro. [24 livres; Glomy pour Silv[?]; Lot 156 [part]: Noel-Nicolas Coypel, deux Etudes au pastel [37 livres, whole lot]; Lot 159 [part]: François Le Moine, une jolie tête au pastel [11 livres 19 sols, whole lot]
James-Alexandre, comte de POURTALÈS-GORGIER (1776-1855), from a Swiss family of Huguenots; his father was an industrialist, ennobled by Friedrich Wilhelm II. His collection of over 1000 works included paintings by Rembrandt, Botticelli and Quentin Massys; they were kept in his residence in the place Vendôme before the construction of a Florentine-inspired hôtel at 7 rue Tronchet. Some of the pictures in his estate sale were subsequently owned by comte Edmond de Pourtalès ( -1895), Paris - others such as Hals's Laughing cavalier - were acquired by the Marquess of Hertford.
Lit.: NGA website; Rieder 2000
Vente p.m., Paris, 27.III.-4.IV.1865:
Lot 375: La Tour, inconnue
Pierre PRAULT (1683-1768), imprimeur-libraire des fermes du roi: owned a cabinet d'œuvres d'art et de curiosités; which passed to one of his sons; a sale of part of the collection in 1780 included portraits and other pastels by Mérelle.
Lit.: Biais 1892
Paris, Le Brun, 27.XI.1780
Alexandre-Denis Abel de PUJOL (1787-1861), peintre.
Paris, 7.XII.1861:
Lot 56: La Tour, femme
M. QUENTIN DE LORANGERE ( -1744), patron and collector. His cabinet of curiosities included shells (which he had bought from Gersaint in 1737), maps and prints as well as an important collection of Flemish paintings, and the catalogue by Gersaint advanced the standards of description.
Vente p.m., Paris, Gersaint, 2.III.1744 & seq.:
Lot 21: Deux pastels de M. Boucher, de 14 pouce 1/2 de haut, sur 11 pouces 1/2 de large, montés en bordures unies, & verre blanc [104 livres]; Lot 48: Vingt-cinq Desseins représentant différentes Têtes & Portraits, tant au Pastel, qu'au Crayon, par Mignard, du Moutier, de Troyes, &c.
Pierre-Louis-Paul RANDON DE BOISSET (1708-1776), receveur général des finances, collector of books, pictures, sculpture etc. He travelled to Italy and The Netherlands, and was a friend of Greuze and Hubert Robert as well as of Boucher, whose drawings were heavily represented in his collection. His posthumous sale, one of the most celebrated of the era, was particularly rich in Dutch paintings.
Lit.: Chatelus 1991, pp. 291f; Grove 1996
Inv. p.m. AN lxxxiv, 546, 18.X.1776
Paris, Chariot, Remy, Julliot, 27.II.-25.III.1777
Lot 23: Rosalba, Femme vue en buste, la poitrine découverte, la tête presque de face; ses cheveux sont ornés de fleurs
Lot 201: Boucher, Garçon avec un panais
H. RASCH, Stockholm.
Pastels: Perronneau, M. Sarazin
Paul RATOUIS DE LIMAY (1881-1963), a descendant of Perronneau's patrons, the Cadet de Limay family, conservateur de la bibliothèque de l'Union centrale des arts décoratifs, expert and author of numerous publications on French XVIIIe pastels, 80 rue de Grenelle, Paris 7e in 1922.
Pastels: Perronneau, Mme Cadet
Gustav RAU (1922-2002), doctor, collector and philanthropist. The son of a wealthy German industrialist, he took over the business, but, at the age of 40 he retrained to become a paediatrician. He sold the family business to establish a medical charity, and worked himself in Nigeria and Zaire for 20 years. During this period his only indlugence was the collection of paintings of all schools which he assembled and stored in Switzerland. In 1985 he constructed a building to house the collection in Marseille, but subsequently his collection was donated to Unicef in Köln with the intention of its being sold to raise funds. Exhibitions of the collection took place in Paris 2001, Dayton, Bergamo 2002.
London, Sotheby's, 9.VII.2008:
Pastels: La Tour, Collin
Gustave de La Croix, baron de RAVIGNAN (1868-1912). His widow owned a Perronneau (femme) in 1923.
Joseph REGENSTEIN (1889-1957), Chicago industrialist, whose fortune was made in the paper, plastics and chemicals industries, and his wife, née Helen Asher (1896-1982), established the philanthropic foundation which donated an important collection of drawings to The Art Institute of Chicago.
Lit.: McCullagh 2000
Dr Laurent REHFOUS, Geneva, expert and antiquaire, held pastels by Huber, Liotard and Petitot in the 1930s.
Jacques-Louis-Étienne de REISET (1771-1835), régent de la Banque de France, had a number of children, among whom were several notable collectors. Gustave-Armand-Henri, comte de Reiset (1821-1905), ministre plénipotentiaire, writer about XVIIIe figures, owned several pastels. His brother Frédéric Reiset (1815-1890) was conservateur in the Louvre, first of drawings, then paintings, before becoming Directeur des musée nationaux in 1874. He sold a large collection of pictures to the duc d'Aumale (q.v.). Of two brother, Jacques (1811-1868), receveur de finances, also owned a La Tour (auto), while Jules de Reiset (1818-1896) was a député and author; a sister Colette married baron Étienne Martin de Beurnonville (q.v.). Jacques-Louis-Étienne's younger brother, Antoine, vicomte de Reiset (1775-1836), was a soldier; his son Antoine-Justin-Henry (1815-1869) inherited the title of vicomte de Reiset, which passed to his son Tony-Henry-Auguste (1858-1925), historien, homme de lettres.
Jacques de Reiset; vente p.m., Paris, Drouot, 29-30.IV.1870:
Lot 39: La Tour, auto
Comte de Reiset, ministre: Vente p.m., Paris, Drouot, Lair-Dubreuil, 30.I.-2.II.1922:
Pastels: La Tour, Mme de Pompadour; Éc. fr., comtesse de Provence
Two sons of the banker Albert REITLINGER and his wife Emma Brunner became important collectors. Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1885-1950), a mining engineer, was both a collector and scholar of old master drawings. He established a trust which operated the Reitlinger Bequest Museum between 1951 and 1987; parts of the collection, including French satirical prints, Japanese woodcuts, ceramics etc., were given to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1991. Other works from Reitlinger's personal collection were sold at Sotheby's. Gerald Reitlinger (1900-1978), artist, writer and art collector, published an extensive study of the prices of works of art over two centuries. He donated his important collection of ceramics to the Ashmolean, and his gift included a pastel by Vispré (Farr).
Lit.: Oxford DNB (Gerald)
Pastels in Fitzwilliam Museum: Russell, woman; cry of London; English sch., Grey; woman
Other pastels: Lawrence, man; Russell, ballad girl; B. Vallant, femme; W. Vallant, femme; English sch., man; lady
REMOISSENET, marchand d'estampes.
Paris, Regnault, 7 prairial an XI [6-11.VI.1803]:
Hall, jeune fille
Pierre REMY ( -1797), Paris art dealer and auctioneer. The son of maître peintre-doreur Louis Remy, he was reçu by the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1749. Between 1755 and 1791 he conducted more than 130 sales, and acted also as valuer and adviser to a number of collectors.
Lit.: Marandet 2003a
Ernest RENTON, London art dealer, King Street, St James's in 1893; lent a number of pastels to the Paris 1911 exhibition.
Paul Julius Baron von REUTER, né Israel Beer Josephat (1816-1899), founder of the Reuters news agency. He left Germany after the 1848 revolution and took British citizenship in 1757. His title was conferred by the Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha in 1871.
Vente p.m., London, Christie's, 1.VII.1899:
Lot 105: La Tour [Coypel], marquise de Lamure
Other pastels: Russell, Persian Sibyl
Sir Joshua REYNOLDS (1723-1792). Starting seriously around 1752, Reynolds formed one of the largest and most important art collections of its day. He visited Paris to attend the Crozat de Thiers sale in 1771. The collection was particularly rich in figurative drawings, which Reynolds viewed as an important working aid, and the Italian masters of the 16th and 17th centuries were well represented. Some 6000 old master drawings were included in the sales between 1794 and 1798, as well as more than 400 paintings. These sales took place in 1795, at a period when prices for eighteenth century portraits were very depressed. A further sale took place 16-26.V.1821 after the death of his niece, Mary Palmer, Countess of Thomond, where the mythological paintings attracted much higher prices than the portraits.
Dictionary, artists
Sale p.m., London, Christie's, 11-14.III., put back to 13-17.III.1795:
Rosalba
Lot 32: Two heads in crayons, elegant [£7/17/-; Dr Stevens]
Lot 35: Two, the portraits of Marco and Sebastian Ricci, in crayons [£6; Clarke]
Lot 61: A Frame with Fifteen Elegant Subjects and Portraits, small, in crayons [£21/10/-; Timothy Collopy]
London, Phillips, 26.V.1798
Lot 1946: Ashfield, Cromwell
Other pastels: Bassano, figure
REY-SPITZER. Possibly the architect Adolphe-Augustin Rey-Spitzer; owned a pair of pastel inconnues in 1904, over-ambitiously given to La Tour [Éc. fr.].
James Henri RICAU (1916-1993), from New Orleans; lived in Greek Revival house on Hudson River; collector of mainly nineteenth-century American paintings and sculpture, much of it now in the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. He owned a drawing by Wright of Derby.
Seymour de RICCI (1881-1942): art historian, born in England but raised in Paris by his mother of Italian origin, educated at the Sorbonne. He took French citizenship in 1901. He initially studied antiquities, Egyptology and bibliography, later turning to mediaeval and rennaissance manucripts. In 1929 he published a catalogue of the musée Cognacq-Jay. He seems to have dealt, or acted as agent, for a number of collectors. A number of sheets from his own collection were sold at Drouot, 10.VI.2009.
Lit.: dictionaryofarthistorians.org; Oxford DNB; Gazette Drouot, 19.VI.2009, p. 67
Le chevalier RICHARD de Lédans [Lédan] ( -1816), lieutenant-général d'infanterie, gouverneur des pages de Madame, best known for the collection of Carmontelle portraits which he assembled after the artist's death; they passed to Pierre de La Mésagnère, were acquired at acution by Major Gordon Duff and then sold through Colnaghi to the duc d'Aumale (q.v.). His posthumous sale also included a few pastels.
Paris, Benou, 3-18.XII.1816:
Lot 520 Coypel, auto; Duhamel, auto; Gautier-Dagoty, Delaverdi; La Tour, duc de Bourgogne; Lot 525: La Tour, Dom Calmet; Lot 546: La Tour, auto; Lot ?: Regnault, Mlle Lacour
Jonathan RICHARDSON Jr (c.1665-1745), artist and collector.
Dictionary, artists
Pastels: Bassano, figure
Antoine RIVALZ (1667-1735) and his son Jean-Pierre, chevalier Rivalz (1718-1785), artists and collectors in Toulouse.
Dictionary, artists
Christophe-Paul, marquis de ROBIEN (1698-1764), président à mortier au parlement de Bretagne, collector of antiquities, natural history specimens and drawings.
Lit.: Paris 1972; Gauthier Aubert, "From Crozat to the musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes: the origins of the drawings collection of the marquis de Robien", Master drawings, xlv/1, 2007
Pastels: F. Lemoyne, St François
Sir John Charles ROBINSON (1824-1913), curator at the V&A. A number of drawings, including a coloured chalk drawing by Lely (Greenhill), were presented to the British Museum by his executors in 1925; others entered the Museum through the purchase in 1895 of the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch (1805-1893) from his son Colonel John Wingfield Malcolm.
Mme RODOCANACHI (fl.1933-62): several members of this Greek family were art collectors.
Pastels: Perronneau, Mlle Pinchinat
Jean-Alphonse ROËHN (1799-1864), fils, peintre, pupil of Regnault and Gros.
Vente p.m., Paris, 13-14.III.1865:
Lot 21: La Tour, abbé
Charles ROGERS (1711-1784), collector, who acquired many of the sheets in Gabburri's collection.
Lit.: Turner 1993
Sale p.m., London, Warwick Street, T. Philipe, 15.IV.1799 & 8 subsequent days
Pastels: Conca, self-portrait
Frederick H. ROHLFS (1904-1983), lawyer and philanthropist, and his wife Marguerite ( -1995); her estate sale was for the benefit of Brown University. She also bequeathed Sharples portraits (Mr & Mrs John Adams) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Lillian ROJTMAN BERKMAN ( -2001) and her first husband, Marc B. Rojtman ( -1967), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, president of the American Tractor Corporation, established The Rojtman Foundation in 1956, which made substantial donations to Marquette University and the Haggerty Museum of Art. Mrs Berkman furnished her house on East 64th Street with a large collection of old master paintings, mostly purchased in the 1950s and 1960s from The Central Galleries, a New York dealer; a number of the attributions have not survived. The Rojtman Medieval Sculpture Gallery was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1964, and statues by Canova were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the NGA, Washington.
Estate of Lillian Rojtman Berkman: New York, Sotheby's, 28.I.2005
Lot 627: pnt. a/r Fragonard pstl; Lot 734: Mengs, Hoffmann
A. S. W. ROSENBACH Company: US dealers.
Einsatzstab Reichsleiter ROSENBERG ("ERR"): A number of pastels were among the collections seized by the Nazis from Jewish collections in Paris during the war. The task of recuperation is not complete.
Lessing J. ROSENWALD (1891-1979), of Jenkintown, Philadelphia, businessman and collector, heir to the Sears-Roebuck retailing fortune. He was a bibliophile and chess enthusiast as well as a collector of paintings, drawings and more than 20,000 prints, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Mme Alexandre ROSLIN, née Marie-Suzanne Giroust (1734-1772), pastellist.
Dictionary, artist
Lit.: Lundberg 1957
Vente succession, Écouen, Quériot, 8.VI.1890:
Lot 7: Mme Roslin, sa fille
Paris, Drouot, 1.VII.1920
Auguste-Louis, marquis de ROSSEL DE CERCY (1736-1804), naval captain and marine painter.
Paris, Jean Gabriel Blanc, François Léandre Regnault Delalande, 21-22.VII.1803:
Lot 6: [Anon.]: Cornellie en pleurs, Tableau peint à l'huile; et un Chien peint au pastel et sous verre [14 frs 10; Datte]
Jean ROSSIGNOL (1908-1984), businessman and collector, particularly of French XVIIIe furniture. His sale, 21 years after his death, produced some €12.5 million.
Paris, Hôtel Dassault, Artcurial, 13.XII.2005:
Pastels: Boze, Louis XVI; La Tour, Dumont le romain
Claude Dickason ROTCH (c.1880—1961) of The Elms, Park Road, Teddington, Middlesex: inventor, scholar, dog owner and art collector.
A patent application made in 1927 concerns rubber paving blocks. He was also a freemason and author of studies on the history of masonry.
As an art collector, his interests ranged from furniture and silver to old master paintings. He made major donations to the Fitzwilliam
Museum (1942), to Trinity Hall, Cambridge (where he matriculated in 1898), the National Gallery (1962) and to the V&A (1957-63).
Lit.: R. W. Symonds, "Mr. C. D. Rotch's collection of furniture", Country life, 7.VI.1924, pp. 937-39
Pastels: Cotes, man 1750; man in blue coat; lady; Hamilton, Carr; Monck; Hoare, Chesterfield; Miss Gower; Luti, man; Read, Duchess of Rutland; Russell, Eidingtoun; Everett; Taylor; Wells; barrister; man; Smith, man; The tryst; Italian sch., man
Gustave ROTHAN (1822-1890), from Alsace, ministre plénipotentiaire in Berlin, historian and art collector.
Paris, Georges Petit, 29-31.V.1890:
Lot 133: Coypel, [??] Adrienne Lecouvreur
Frédéric Rodolphe, comte de ROTHENBOURG (1710-1751), ambassadeur à Berlin, instrumental in Friedrich der Große's acquisitions of French art.
Lit.: H. Börsch-Supan, "Friedrich Rudolf, comte de Rothenbourg", L'Œil, .XII.1969, pp. 12-19; Chardin 1979
The extended dynsaty established by the Frankfurt banker Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD (1744-1812) is probably both the most numerous and the best known family of art collectors. Of the various branches that founded in France by James de Rothschild (1792-1868) is particularly significant. His daughter Charlotte, la baronne Nathaniel (1825-1899), painter and pupil of Nélie Jacquemart, was also a collector; her grandson Henry (1872-1946) and his son Philippe organised the 1929 Chardin exhibition; Henry wrote a monograph on the artist under the pseudonym of André Pascal. His Chardin autoportrait was sold in 1966, while his La Tour Duval de l'Épinoy is now the glory of the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. Charlotte's nephew Édouard (1868-1949) owned the celebrated Greuze pastel study for L'Heureuse Mère (now in the NGA, Washington). Her brother Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934) bequeathed to the Louvre his collection of some 40,000 prints and 3000 drawings; he lent a La Tour duc de Bourgogne to the Cent pastels exhibition (Paris 1908a), while a Liotard (Mariette de Bassompierre) is now in Geneva. Other parts of his collections were inherited by his son James A. de Rothschild and are now at Waddesdon, which he inherited from Miss Alice (1847-1922) of the Viennese branch, whose brother Ferdinand had moved to England and constructed Waddesdon (v. Collections; the pastel holdings range from Gardner to Grimod de La Réynière). Alfons (1878-1942) and Eugène (1884-1976), Vienna, owned a group of six pastels of the Imperial family by Pierre Bernard in 1946; Eugène also owned Labille-Guiard's Mme Mitoire. James A.'s brother Maurice (1881-1957) was among those whose collections were subject to Nazi seizure during the war, including La Tour's président de Rieux now in the Getty (others were Boucher, Le Départ; Carriera, jeune fille; Fragonard, femme; Hodges, Mr & Mrs Patterson; La Tour, marquise de Rumilly; Russell, his nephew; Mme Roslin's autoportrait; he also lent a La Tour Mme de Pompadour to the Cent pastels exhibition). Adolph (1823-1900), from the Naples branch, also owned a Rosalba (Ceres). From the English branch, Mayer Amschel (1818-1874) built Mentmore, which passed to his son-in-law Lord Rosebery (Ducreux, auto; Russell, Col. Thornton) and was offered to the nation before the notorious sale in 1977.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Chardin 1979; Donateurs 1989; Niall Ferguson, The world's banker. the history of the house of Rothschild, London, 1998; Michael Hall, ed., "Bric-a-brac: a Rothschild's memoir of collecting", Apollo, .VII.-.VIII.2007
Henri ROUART (1833-1912), civil engineer and director of a metallurgical business in Paris; he was also active as an artist, exhibiting at the official salons 1868-72 and then with the Impressionists, with whom he was particularly assoicated through his school friend Degas. A large collection was sold after his death.
Paris, Galerie Manzi Joyant, 9-11.XII.1912 Paris, Galerie Manzi Joyant, 16-18.XII.1912
Lot 146: La Tour, auto; Lot 296: Vigée, inconnu
Paris, Drouot, 21-22.IV.1913
M. "de ROUSSEL, fermier général", probably Jacques Roussel ( -1768), father of Jacques-Jérémie Roussel de La Celle et Roquencourt (1712-1776), fermier général 1736-67 and the subject, with his wife, of pastels by La Tour.
Vente p.m., Paris, Glomy & Buldet, 13-22.III.1769:
Lot 220: Oudry, Un Paysage agréable, avec des animaux peints au pastel, par J.B. Oudri, sous glace [78 livres]; Lot 221: Boucher, Neuf Têtes de femmes de figures gracieuses, dont huit pastel; savoir, quatre de M. Boucher, sous glace, les quatre autres dans sa maniere, & une peinte à l'huile, par Bachelier, représente une Jeune Fille étudiant de la Musique: elles seront détaillées à la vente. [74 livres]
Sir George RUSSELL, 4th Bt (1828-1898), of Swallowfield, married Constance ( -1925), daughter of Lord Arthur Lennox and Adelaide Constance Campbell; she wrote about Swallowfield and its occupants (1901). Inspired by her interest in mineralogy, her son Sir Arthur, 6th Bt (1878-1964), formed an important collection of minerals. Lady Russell owned a group of pastels of members of her mother's family; these descended to Sir Arthur's widow Marjorie before some appeared in a sale in 1972.
London, Christie's, 6.VI.1972:
Lot 10?: Liotard, Lady Coventry; Cotes: Lots 105, 106, Gunning; Lot 107, Mrs Travers
Other pastels: Cotes, Mrs Travers; Hamilton (Argyll) and Read (Ancaster; Campbell)
John RUSSELL (1745-1806), pastellist. His posthumous sale included a number of his own pastels (not listed below).
Dictionary, artists
London, Christie's, 14.II.1807
London, Christie's, 25.III.1807:
Lot 89: Carriera, The Judgement of Paris, in 4 pictures, m/u [£3]
Johannes Catharinus de RUYTER DE WILDT (1877-1950), chemical engineer, member of a family of Dutch naval officers; an anonymous Dutch pastel (Parker) is now in the Rijksmuseum.
Frank T. SABIN ( -1915), English dealer active in America from 1848. Frank M. Sabin was later senior partner.
Paul J. SACHS (1878-1965), professor of fine arts at Harvard, associate director of the Fogg Art Museum, collector of drawings.
SACKVILLE GALLERY, Max Rothschild: exhibited several English pastels in the Paris 1911 exhibition (Alefounder, 2 pstls); also had pastels by Russell etc.
Daniel SAINT (1778-1847), miniaturist, pastellist.
Dictionary, artist
Paris, 4.V.1846:
La Tour:Lot 33, Mlle Sallé; Lot 34: homme; Lot 35, inconnue
Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, duc de SAINT-AIGNAN (1684-1776).
Dictionary, genealogy
Paris, Florentin, Le Brun, 17.VI.1776:
Lot 114 [part]: Un portrait de femme peinte au pastel par la Rose-Alba, hauteur vingt-deux pouces, largeur seize pouces [499 livres 19 sols]
Lot 163 [incorrectly as 161 in the catalogue]: Augustin, Le Portrait de cet Artiste peint par lui-même au pastel, en Italie, hauteur vingt-deux pouces, largeur seize pouces [15 livres]
Lot 312: Cinq Desseins & Pastels, faits par Mesdames de France [24 livres]
Louis-Philippe Rousselin de Corbeau, vicomte de SAINT-ALBIN (1822-1879), librarian to Empress Eugénie; scholar and collector.
The family lived in the rue vieille du Temple, and Philippe inherited from his father, founder of the Constitutionnel, the papers and
portraits associated with the Revolution collected by Barras (some of which are now in the musée Carnavalet). He donated a sanguine drawing by
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin after Coypel's Adrienne Lecouvreur to the Comédie-Française in 1849. His sister and heir was Mme Achille Jubinal, and a
number of pastels were in the Jubinal de Saint-Albin collection (and had passed to her daughter Mme George Duruy by 1923). Two pastels thought
to be by La Tour were donated to the musée de Bagnères-de-Bigorre in 1864. A collection of curiosties, scientific instruments etc. was sold at
auction in Paris, 18.II.1960.
Dictionary, genealogy, Corbeau
Lit.: Sara Yorke Stevenson, Maximilian in Mexico, 1897; Dreyfus 1905; Donateurs 1989
Pastels: Boucher, 2 jeunes filles; Mérelle, ses enfants; La Tour [Éc. fr.], ??Le Riche de La Pouplinière;
chevalier; Perronneau, comtesse de Corbeau de Saint-Albin; Éc. fr., Rousselin de Saint-Albin
Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of ST ALBANS (1740-1802): in addition to family portraits, he acquired a Rosalba in the Dalton sale and several at his brother-in-law, the Earl of Bessborough's sale which were sold soon after.
Dictionary, genealogy, Beauclerk
London, Christie's, 27.III.1802:
Rosalba
Lot 67: A woman with children playing [18 gns, b/i]
Lot 68: Portrait of a lady [£6/16/-]
Pastels: Carriera, lady in the character of Ceres
Augustin de SAINT-AUBIN (1736-1807), draughtsman and engraver.
Dictionary, artist
Paris, Claude-René Debonnaire & Guillaume-Jean Thuret, François-Léandre Regnault Delalande, 4-9.IV.1808:
Lot 13: [Anon.]: 14 Tableaux, Sujets et Etudes de têtes d'hommes et de Bacchantes, Paysages, etc. Plus, une Tête de femme peinte en pastel, (elle est sous-verre) [Fr2]
Saint-Julien, v. Baillet
Charles-Paul-Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de SAINT-MORYS (1743-1795). His collection of XVIe-XVIIIe Italian, French and
Netherlandish drawings was seized when he emigrated during the Revolution, and is now in the Louvre; it includes pastels by Lafosse (jeune
femme), Nanteuil (Talon), W. Vaillant (magistrat) and Vouet (homme). He may also have owned a sheet by Jean I Dubois.
Lit.: Françoise Arquié-Bruley & al., La Collection Saint-Morys au cabinet des dessins du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1987; Lise Bicart-Sée, "Charles-Paul-Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys and his drawings", Master drawings, xlv/1, 2007
Jean-Claude Richard, abbé de SAINT-NON (1727-1791): artist, patron and collector.
Dictionary, artists; genealogy Richard
Lit.: Grove 1996
Paris, Paillet, 2.V.1792 & seq.:
Tableaux à l'huile & au pastel [Lots 39-48], par M. de St-Non, d'après Boucher, Robert, Fragonard, &c. &c.
Lot 39: Un Tableau ovale, peint au pastel, ainsi que les suivans; il représente un portrait de jeune femme ajustée d'un mantelet noir.
Lot 40: Un Sujet allégorique au Dessin, & pour pendant un Repos de Vénus. Ces deux morceaux, d'après Boucher, sont dans des cadres noirs.
Lot 41: Cinq Têtes de fantaisie, d'après Boucher, Fragonard & Greuze.
Lot 42: Deux Bustes de femmes, l'une occupé à écrire, l'autre lisant une lettre.
Lot 43: Deux autres Bustes; l'un représente un Vieillard, l'autre un Espagnol.
Lot 44: Une belle Femme tenant des fleurs, copie très soignée, d'après Rosa Alba.
Lot 45: Portrait d'une jeune femme qui tient un oiseau sur le doigt.
Lot 46: Deux Têtes de fantaisie, d'après Boucher.
Lot 47: Un Buste de femme, d'après Greuze.
Lot 48: Le Portrait de Francklin, d'après Duplessis.
Saint-Saphorin, v. Mestral
Jacques SALMANOWITZ (1884-1966), originally from Latvia, moved to Romania before settling in Geneva where in 1919 he established the Swiss branch of the Société Générale de Surveillance, a cargo inspection business. He was succeeded by his son Grégoire. A considerable number of pastels by Liotard (and one by Guillibaud) have passed through several generations of this family.
William SALOMON (1852-1919), American banker, amassed a superb collection of renaissance and rococo treasures in his home at 1020 Fifth Avenue; an album of photographs was privately printed in 1912, but the house was demolished after his death, and the collection sold at auction.
Lit.: Gimpel 1963
New York, American Art Association, 4-9.IV.1923:
Lot 371: La Tour [Coypel], inconnue; Lot 373: Nattier [Rotari], Louise-Marie Gouthier; Lot 374: Nattier, jeune fille; Lot 375: Coypel [Anon.], jeune fille aux perles; Lot 389: La Tour attr. [Anon], Mlle Chastagner de Lagrange
Cardinale Duca Alamanno SALVIATI (1669-1733)
Inv., Rome, 17.IV.1749
Pastels: Balestra, Abramo
Jacques-François-Joseph SALY (1717-1776), chevalier de Saint-Michel, sculpteur du roi; he worked in France, Italy and Denmark. There is a portrait by Jens Juel.
Vente p.m., Paris, Domain, Joullain fils, 14-18.VI.1776:
Lot 22: Une étude précieusement faite au pastel, de l'Enfant Jesus & Saint Jean, faisant partie d'un tableau de la Saint Jean, faisant partie d'un tableau de la Sainte Famille par Raphaël, qui est au Palais Royal, & dont l'estampe par N. de Larmessin est gravée dans le Cabinet Crozat. Cette étude est peinte par A. Coypel, & sous glace [37 livres]
Lot 23: Une tête de Christ & une autre tête de Saint Sébastien, au pastel, par le même [18 livres 15 sols]
Lot 24: L'Amour menaçant, tableau de forme ovale, par C. Coypel. Il a été gravé par J. Daullé. Hauteur 14 pouces, largeur 11 pouces 6 lig. Bordure dorée & verre [36 livres 1 sol]
Lot 25: Deux têtes de femmes d'un beau caractère, par le même [9 livres 1 sol]
Lot 31: Joseph accusé par la femme de Putiphar. Dessin mélé d'un peu de pastel par C. Coypel, sous glace [52 livres; De Gourville]
Jules SAMBON, numismatist and dealer in Paris; his son Arthur (1867-1947) became president of the Chambre des experts d'arts de Paris, and acted for J. P. Morgan and Gulbenkian. Arthur founded the journal Le Musée which appeared between 1904 and 1909. His sale included antiquties, Persian illuminations, sculpture, bronzes, ceramics and marbles of all ages and schools. They owned pastels by Roslin acquired in the period 1905-23.
(JS): Paris, Drouot, 1-3.V.1911:
Lot 1030: Labille-Guiard, Le Kain
(AS): Paris, Georges Petit, 25-28.V.1914:
Lot 218: Liotard [Roslin], von Fries
Other pastels: Carriera; Poleni, La Tour, Brémontier; Éc. fr., Goldoni
Samuel, v. Bearsted
Victorien SARDOU (1831-1908), playwright. Trained as a doctor, he was passionately interested in the theatre, and wrote a number of comedies and historical dramas, interpreted by actresses such as Réjane and Sarah Bernhardt. Fédora (1882) and Tosca (1887) were both turned into operas. He was admitted to the Académie française in 1877. He married the daughter of M. Soulié, conservateur du musée de Versailles. He assembled a collection of works of art relating to the theatre.
Lit.: Lugt 2262, 2263; the 1909 sale catalogue has an introduction by G. Lenôtre and Georges Cain
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreil, Baudoin, 27.IV.1909:
Lot 57: Mme Filleul, Madame Royale;
SAUVAGE, peintre
Paris, Chariot, 6.XII.1808 & seq.
A. SAVARD: possibly the composer Augustin Savard (1861-1942).
Pastels: La Tour, Frère Fiacre; Valade, Mme Fontaine de Cramayel
William H. SCHAB Gallery, New York: their 30th anniversary exhibition, in 1969, was devoted to 18th century pastel and gouache drawings.
Ary SCHEFFER (1795-1858), peintre.
Pastels: La Tour, sa mère; acteur
Baron Basile de SCHLICHTING (1857-1914), born in St Petersburg, counsellor of state to the Tsar. He moved to Paris around 1900. He bequeathed his collection to the Louvre, including 68 paintings, 125 drawings and 47 fine miniatures on ivory.
Lit.: Lugt 1886; Donateurs 1989; Jean-Richard in Bordeaux 1995
Pastels: Nattier, jeune fille
Robert SCHUHMANN, married Alice-Marie Lehmann, daughter of the collector Albert Lehmann (q.v.).
Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier, 7.XII.1934:
Lot 100: Perronneau, homme; Lot ?: Boucher, ?Mme Baudouin
SCHWEITZER Gallery, New York, art dealer
Louis-Auguste, baron de SCHWITTER (1805-1889), portraitist and amateur, Paris, collector of drawings and prints. The only entry in the Dictionary is of a coloured chalk drawing by Aubert.
Lit.: Lugt 1768
James SCHWOB D'HÉRICOURT, industrialist, with interests in wool manufacture and in the Mumm champaigne house, uncle of Capitaine Dreyfus. A Jewish community was formed on his property in the canton of Héricourt (Haute-Saône) in 1906. During World War II, art treasures owned by Maurice Schwob were looted by the Germans.
Pastels: La Tour, Mlle Ferrand
Lieut.-Col. Alexander Malcolm SCOTT ( -1975), of Inkpen, Berkshire, an officer in the Scots Guards, was commandant of Camp Z (Mytchett Place), where Rudolf Hess was imprisoned. in 1941. In 1975 his residual bequest to the National Art Collections Fund included a number of pastels which were assigned to museums in Bristol, Kendal and Enfield.
Pastels: Gardner, Miss Denby; Mr & Mrs Henchman; Mrs Tollemache; man; lady; Hamilton, pendants
James SCOULER (1741-1812), miniaturist.
Dictionary, artists
London, Hutchins, Wells, Fisher, 10-11.IV.1797:Framed and glazed - Rosalba
Lot 4: Two portraits of ladies, plate glass
Lot 6: Two heads in crayons
Lot 8: The portrait of a lady, plate glass
Lot 9: A ditto, ditto
Lot 13: A head of Diana, plate glass
Lot 14: A ditto
Götz Burkhard Graf von SECKENDORFF (1842-1910), soldier, diplomat and artist. Son of Theodor von Seckendorff, Prussian minister in London; he was appointed Oberhofmeister to Kaiserin Friedrich, whom he accompanied on her travels after the Kaiser's death. His watercolours are represented in the Royal Collection in Windsor.
Lit.: Hildegard Reinhardt, in Victoria von Preußen 1840-1901 in Berlin 2001. Cat. K. Müller & F. Rothe, pp. 232-91
Pastels: Perronneau, homme
Charles SEDELMEYER (1837-1925), of 6 rue de La Rochefoucauld, Paris, one of the most important pre-war dealers, his clients included Pierpont Morgan and the Kanns. His enormous collection was dispersed in seven sales in Paris and Vienna in 1907. Conforming with, and perhaps forming, the taste of the day, he held pastels by Boucher, Carriera, La Tour and Vigée Le Brun as well as Russell and Hamilton. His daughter Emma married the dealer Eugène Fischhof (q.v.).
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Robert René Meyer SÉE, author of monograph on English pastels. He was employed by Xavier Haas to catalogue his collection of Romney drawings.
Pastels: Gardner, Mrs Penton
Count Antoine SEILERN (1901-1978), of 58 Princes Gate, art historian and collector. His extensive collection of old master paintings and drawings was donated anonymously to the Courtauld Institute, the National Gallery and the British Museum (which received a Lutterell pastel in 1946).
Jacques SELIGMANN (1858-1923) was the son of a German flour merchant. He moved to France early and worked for the auctioneer Paul Chevallier at the Hôtel Drouot., and then for Charles Mannheim. In 1880 he set up independently from premises in the rue des Mathurins, moving c.1900 to the place Vendôme. A split with his brother Arnold (1860-1935) in 1912 resulted in the creation of two firms, Arnold Seligmann & Cie remaining in the place Vendôme, while J. Seligmann & Cie conducted business from the palais de Sagan; a New York branch was opened in 1913. Jacques's elder son Germain Seligman [sic] (1893-1978) continued the business, while André (1898-1945) established his own gallery on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
Lit.: Germain Seligman, Merchants of art: 1880-1960, New York, 1961; Germain Seligman, Oh! Fickle taste, New York, 1952; John Richardson, ed., The collection of Germain Seligman, New York, 1979; Donateurs 1989
SÉNAC, lecteur du roi [?Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan (1736-1803), maître des requettes 1764, lecteur du dauphin 1763, intendant de Hainaut 1775, fermier général]
Vente p.m. [?], Paris Alexandre, 3.XII.1783 & seq.:
Lot 56: Boucher, Une jolie Tête de femme, vue de profil: elle est peinte au pastel
Monsignor Lodovico SERGARDI (1660-1726), collector, writer under the pseudonym Quinto Settano. His nephew, abate Lattanzio Sergardi (1695- ), compiled a list of the pictures from his inventory which he wished to retain, which included the Barocci sheet..
Lit.: Susan M. Dixon, Between the real and the ideal: The Accademia degli Arcadi and its garden in eighteenth-century Rome, Delaware, 2006, p. 125
Inv., Rome, 8.I.1727
Pastels: Barocci, tre puttini
Giuseppe I Sforza Cesarini Savelli, duca di SFORZA CESARINI (1705-1744), Neapolitan ambassador to the Holy See. His posthumous inventory shows 15 "pastels" by Carlo Maratti.
Dictionary, genealogy, Sforza
Rev. Thomas SHEEPSHANKS (1819–1913), Park Place, Harrogate, 1894: nephew of the collector John Sheepshanks, who presented some 600 pictures to the nation in 1857; he owned Russell pastels of members of his family, as well as of a St Giles songstress. John Sheepshanks (1787-1863), of Rutland Gate, London, son of a wealthy cloth manufacturer at Leeds, formed a collection of pictures which he wished to offer to the nation.
Lit.: Gentleman's magazine, .XI.1863, p. 664; Bryan 1905
René SIBILAT, Paris, president of the Chambre des Assureurs maritime de France, bibliophile. He was the nephew of Émile Straus, second husband of Bizet's widow Geneviève (1845-1926), model for the duchesse de Guermantes. Sibilat's collection of some 800 first editions of modern fiction, many dedicated to Mme Straus, was presented to the Bibliothèque nationale in 1949.
Lit.: Mina Curtiss, Other people's letters: in search of Proust, 2005
Pastels: Perronneau, M. & Mme Michel de Grilleau
Philippe SICHEL (1839/40-1899), art dealer; handled pastels by Carriera, Ducreux, La Tour, Vivien and Éc. fr.
Paris, Georges Petit, 22-28.VI.1899:
Augustin-François, baron de SILVESTRE (1762-1851), de l'Institut, bibliothécaire du cabinet du roi, son of Jacques-Augustin de Silvestre (q.v.). His collection of over 100 paintings and 250 drawings was sold in 1851.
Dictionary, genealogy
Vente p.m., Paris, 4-6.XII.1851, postponed to 11-13.XII.1851:
Lot 233: La Tour, dame âgée; Lot 234: Anon., Mme Louise, abbesse des Carmélites
Jacques-Augustin de SILVESTRE (1719-1809), maître à dessiner des Enfants de France, engraver, great-nephew of Louis de Silvestre (q.v.); father of baron de Silvestre (q.v.). An active art collector, he owned some 16 Chardins.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Chardin 1979; Regnault-Delalande, Catalogue raisonné d'objets d'arts du cabinet de feu M. de Silvestre, Paris, 1810
Vente p.m., Paris, 28.II.- 25.III.1811:
Pastels: Chardin, auto; & Mme Chardin [R&T 194, 198]; Hallé; Oudry, études de divers animaux
Other pastels: A. Coypel, Vieillard; C. Coypel, Çelebi; Le Brun, femme; numerous drawings with touches of pastel by various masters
Louis de SILVESTRE (1675-1760), history painter; he rose to become directeur of the Académie royale before moving to Dresden where he was appointed premier peintre. Although not himself a pastellist, both his wife and daughter (qq.v.) were.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: R.-A. Weigert, "Documents inédits sur Louis de Silvestre (1675-1760) suivis du catalogue de son œuvre", Archives de l'art français, xvii, 1932, pp. 362-488
Norton SIMON (1907-1993), industrialist and philanthropist, maintained a private collection of drawings in addition to the works now in the eponymous museum (v. Collections)
Nikolai SINEBRYCHOFF, of Russian origin, settled in Helsinki in the early 19th century and made a fortune from the brewing and distilling monopolies he acquired in 1819 and 1822. His grandson Paul Sinebrychoff (1859-1917) continued to run the brewery, but also shared a passion for collecting art with his wife, the actress Fanny Grahn (1862-1921). The collection, comprising Swedish, Dutch and Flemish portraits and miniatures, silver and porcelain, was given to the state in 1921 (two years after the Prohibition Act was passed in Finland) together with their home, in a park in central Helsinki.
Pastels: v. Collections, Helsinki
Le marquis de SINETY (fl. 1957), château de Misy.
Pastels: Frédou, duc de Bourgogne; Nanteuil, Marolles
Isaac Merritt SINGER (1811-1875), founder of the Singer sewing machine company. Among his 22 children from various marriages and liaisons were Isabelle-Blanche, duchesse Decazes (q.v.), mother of Mrs Daisy Fellowes (q.v.) and Winnaretta Singer, princesse Edmond de Polignac (q.v.). His widow Isabella Eugenie Boyer (1841-1904) subsequently married the duc de Camposelice and Paul Sohège (q.v.).
Jean-Claude Gaspard de SIREUL (c.1720/30-1781), valet de chambre du roi, collector, particularly associated with Boucher whose works he collected with a "passion violente…aux depens de sa propre aisance".
Lit.: Grove 1996
Vente p.m., Paris, 3.XII.1781:
Boucher pastels:
Lot 45: Le Portrait de Mme de Pompadour, vue de trois-quarts. Elle est représntée coiffée en cheveux, et la gorge à demi découverte [200 livres; Boileau fils]
Lot 46. Le Portrait de Mademoiselle ***, vu de face, coiffée en cheveux et vêtue d'une robe bleue. Hauteur 14 pouces, largeur 12 pouces. [21 livres 1 sol; Charlier]
Lot 47: Le Portrait de Madame de *** en petit et vu de face. Elle est représentée coiffée en cheveux et en habit de Bergère, ayant le bras droit passé dans une corbeille de fleurs. Le fond du tableau offre un paysage…. La plupart des Amateurs n'ignorent pas que ce fur un homage de l'amité de M. Boucher pour M. de Sireul. Hauteur 14 pouces, largeur 12 pouces
Lot 49: Deux jolis dessins…dans l'un on voit une jeune paysanne portant un panier d'une main, et tenant de l'autre un petit garnçon qui fait voler un oiseau au bout d'un fil et suivi d'un autre enfant; l'autre représent un jeune fille portant un enfant dans ses bras et suivie d'un autre qui marche près d'elle, 10 p ½ par 6 p. ½ [180 livres; Dulac]
Lot 62: Un dessin précieux…représentant une jeune fille de profil, les cheveux tressés et ornés de fleurs, colorié au pastel sur papier bleu, 10 p. x 8 p. [48 livres 1 sol; Robert]
Lot 64: Buste d'une jeune fille, coiffée en cheveux et la gorge nu, colorié au pastel sur papier bleu, 9 p. x 8 p. [22 livres 1 sol; Paillet]
Lot 158. [Un dessin colorié], représentant un buste de femme, vue de face, ayant l'épaule et la gorge découvertes, les cheveux tressés avec un ruban bleu [19 livres 1 sol; Paillet]
Fragonard, 2 pastels
Jan SIX (1618-1700), mayor of Amsterdam, art collector and patron of Rembrandt. Many members of this family were collectors or art historians. Lucretia Johanna van Winter (1785-1845), married to Hendrik Six van Hillegom, was also a collector; she is the subject of a pastel by Tischbein now in the Six Foundation, Amsterdam. Other pastels owned by members of the family included pendants by Hodges (Pieter ter Borch & wife).
Lit.: Priem 1997, pp. 103-196
Sir Hans SLOANE, Bt (1660-1753), doctor and collector; his collection formed the nucleus of that of the British Museum. He owned Faithorne's pastel of John Ray.
Joseph SMITH (1682-1770), British consul in Venice, collector of pictures, books, coins etc., and patron of the arts. Smith lived in Venice from 1700, and was finally appointed Consul in 1744. His enormous collections of books and pictures were bought by George III: the books now form part of the British Library, while the pictures are now in the Royal Collection. The Nazzari pastels he commissioned are each of artists Smith patronised: Smith was instrumental in bringing Zuccarelli to London, Visintini redesigned the façade of Smith's Palazzo Balbi, and worked with Giandomenico Tiepolo at the Villa Valmarana in 1757. Visintini also engraved 38 vedute by Canaletto, an artist for whom Smith was agent.
Lit.: Frances Vivian, Il Console Smith mercante e collezionista, Vicenza, 1971; London 1993b; Oxford DNB
Jean-Baptiste SLODTZ ( -1759), Paris art dealer and restorer, partner of Pierre Remy, described also as peintre du duc d'Orléans. Among the works he restored was a pastel by Carriera.
Lit.: Marandet 2003a; Wildenstein 1966
Dudley SNELGROVE ( -1992), fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
London, Sotheby's, 19.XI.1992:
Lutterell, Lot 165: boy & girl of the Evelyn family; Lot 168: Mortimer & sister; Lot 171: Jeffreys; Lot 284: Smith, man
Paul SOHÈGE, violinist, in 1893 became fourth husband of Isabella Eugenie Boyer (1841-1904), widow of Issac M. Singer (q.v.) and
the duc de Camposelice.
Paris, Drouot, Bernier, Sortais, 1.IV.1909:
Lot 23: Ansiome, homme; Lot 26: Perronneau, ?Louis Journu; Lot 27: Vigée Le Brun [M. V. Lemoine], fillette
Other pastels: Perronneau, Puente-Fuerte
Henri-Augustin SOLEIROL, chef de bataillon du génie, expert on Molière. Joseph Francois Soleirol (1781-1863) formed a large botanical collection. J.-H.-M. Soleirol assembled a "Galerie théatrâle", consisting of 755 prints and 641 drawings and miniatures of drawings and prints, sold in Paris (1-4.XII.1862, 30.XI.-3.XII.1864).
Vente p.m., Paris, Delbergue, 29.IV.-2.V.1861:
Lot 563: La Tour, Richer de Rhodes; Lot 578, Van Loo, Le Kain[ auto]
SOPHIA DOROTHEA von Hannover (1687-1757), Königin von Preußen as wife of Friedrich Wilhelm I., left some 806 pictures in Schloß
Monbijou and Berliner Schloß her posthumous inventory (27.II.–3.IV.1758, among them 19 pastels, mostly anonymous; four seem to be by Lundberg.
Lit.: Börsch-Supan 1994
SORBET, chirurgien des mousquetaires gris.
Paris, Chariot, Remy, 1.IV.1776 & seq.
Boucher
Lot 46: Une Femme tenant un papier de musique; elle est vue presque de face; des fleurs ornent sa tête: ce beau Buste est peint au pastel, 16 p. 6 x 13 p. 3
Le Propriétaire les tient directement des mains de feu M. Boucher aux Nos suiv. 215, 216, 217, 218 & 219.
Lot 218: La Voluptueuse & la Dormeuse, buste en pastel sous verre, 15 p. x 11 p.
Lot 219: Deux autres bustes de femme, dont une tient un perroquet.
SORIN DE BONNE: family associated with the pastellist Mme Filleul (q.v.).
Dictionary, genealogy
Georges SORTAIS, expert and dealer; his opinion on Leonardo's La Belle Ferronnière led to the celebrated defamation case against Duveen.
Paris, Drouot, 22.V.1925:
Lot ? Carriera; Lot 15: Ducreux, Du Moustier; Lot 34: Perronneau, ??Duclos
SOUCHAY, de Lyon.
Paris, Chariot, Joullain, 4-14.I.1775:
Lot 7: Un buste de femme coëffé & vêtue dans le costume Vénitien: ce Tableau au pastel par Mademoiselle Rosalba, est d'une touche fondue admirablement: il port 11 pouces de haut, sur 9 pouces 6 lignes de large, sous glace
Lot 8: Deux paysages d'une aimable couleur, peints au pastel par M. Pillement. 12 pouces de haut, sur 16 pouces 6 lignes de large
Jacques-Germain SOUFFLOT (1713-1780), architecte du roi.
Vente p.m., Paris, Le Brun, 20.XI.1780:
Pastels: Loir, 2 bustes de femmes
Henri-Joseph SOUQUES (1806-1876), conseiller à la cour d'appel d'Orléans; bequest to the musée des Beaux-Arts, 1876.
Lit.: Klinka-Ballesteros 2005
Pastels: Perronneau, Mme Fuet
Greve Gustav Adolf SPARRE (1746-1794), collector. His fortune was derived from the Swedish East India Company, and enabled him to build one of the most important Swedish art collections (rich in Dutch painting but also including family portraits and pastels by Lundberg), originally housed at Göteborg but later moved to Kulla Gunnarstorp until sold in 1837 to the Wachtmeister family, slot Vanås.
Lit.: I. Hasselgren, Konstsamlaren Gustav Adolf Sparre 1746-1794. Hans studieresa våning och konstsanling i Göteborg, Göteborg, 1974; Chardin 1979; Grove 1979
Maximilian Freiherr SPECK VON STERNBURG (1776-1856), wool merchant, agriculturalist and art collector. His collections, acquired by the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig in 1996, included two Pillement landscapes in addition to paintings, prints and drawings from Cima to Christian David Friedrich.
James Breckinridge SPEED, prominent Louisville businessman and philanthropist. His widow Hattie Bishop Speed ( -1942) founded the Speed Art Museum in 1925 in his memory. Mrs Berry Stoll, née Alice Speed, their granddaughter (best known as the victim of a sensational kidnapping in 1934), left more than $50 million to the museum in 1996.
Pastels: v. Collections, Louisville, The Speed Art Museum, 1996
Johan Conrad SPENGLER (1767-1839), curator of the Danish royal Kunstkammer. He formed a large collection of old master drawings, many sold at auction in 1839, a number of which now form part of the Statens Museum for Kunst. Among these are pastels by Barocci and Juel.
Lit.: Lugt 1434
Francesco Carlo SPINELLI, principe di Tarsia.
Inv., Naples, .III.1732
Pastels: Reni, Madonna
Walter A. STAEHELIN, Bern, expert on Chinese export porcelain.
Pastels: Pillement, paysage
STANISLAW II. AUGUST, król Polski 1764-95 (1732-1798): avid art collector. Before his abdication Desenfans and Bourgeois (qq.v.) assembled for him the collection of old master paintings which is now at Dulwich. Réau's inventory contains more than 30 pastels by Louis Marteau as well as works by Kucharski, Mme Gault de Saint-Germain and Perronneau (Biron). He also owned a pastel by P. J. Bardou.
Dictionary, genealogy, Polska
Lit.: Louis Réau, "Catalogue des œuvres d'art français du roi de Pologne Stanislas-Auguste", Archives de l'art français, XVII, 1932, pp. 227-248; Mánkowski 1932
Edgar STERN (1854-1937), Paris collector, acquired several pictures from the Goncourt sale in 1897 and was also a lender to the Goncourt exhibition in 1933 as well as to the Brussels exhibition of 1912
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Jacques Leon STERN, collector.
New York, Parke Bernet, 3-4.XI.1950
Mrs Carl STERN, née Anne Bigelow Rosen (1917–2009), daughter of the collector Walter Tower Rosen and Lucie Bigelow Dodge; she married two musicians and was a lifelong supporter of the arts.
Sale, Thomaston, Maine, 7–8.XI.2009, Lot 210: Carriera, Diana
STERN, v.q. Michelham
Henri STETTINER, art dealer, 27, rue de Choiseul, who advertised that he had a house in London "où il vend les choses anglaises achetées à Paris". He acquired pastels by Cotes, Ducreux, Gardner, La Tour, Lawrence and Vigée in sales from 1911. Among his clients were Sir Richard Wallace and Ernest Cognacq.
Lit.: Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, "Un amateur de céramique à Paris: Lady Schreiber", Revue de la Société des amis du musée national de céramique, 14, 2005, pp. 68ff
Dr STEVENS.
London, 3-5.III.1796 [part]
Lot 371: A female head, Rosalba, highly finished [Framed and Glazed] [£2/12/-; Cole]
Lady STRACHEY, née Jane Maria Grant (1840-1928), authoress; married Lieut.-Gen. Sir Richard Strachey; mother of Lytton Strachey. She acquired a collection of some 63 Gardner pastels from Lord Carlingford (q.v.); they were dispersed at Christie's on 17.VII.1911.
Casimir I. STRALEM (1886-1932), of 14 East 82nd Street, New York, partner in the banking firm of Hallgarten & Company; Edith, Mrs Stralem was the daughter of his partner, Sigmund Neustadt; their son Donald S. Stralem (1903-1976), New York; Mrs Donald S. Stralem.
London, Christie's, 13.XII.1984:
Lot 158: Jacques-André Portail [Boucher], jeune femme; Lot 181: Rosalba, femme au perroquet; Rosalba, L'Été
Tony Banks, Lord STRATFORD (1943-2006), English politician, his collection of political portraits and cartoons included three pastels of Charles James Fox.
London, Bonhams, 3.V.2007:
Lot 30: S. Cotes, Fox; Lot 38: Smith, Fox; Lot 81: S. Cotes, Fox
Émile STRAUS, v. Sibilat
Isidor STRAUS (1845-1912) founded the Macy's department store business with his brother. He was killed with his wife on the Titanic. Two of their seven children were collectors. Herbert Nathan Straus (1881-1933), youngest of the Straus brothers, and his wife, née Therese Kuhn (1884-1977), were collectors of French drawings, some of which are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Four dozen French drawings, including works by Boucher, Fragonard and Saint-Aubin, were donated to the Fogg Art Museum in 1978 (Herbert was at Harvard), along with ten sculptures. Jesse Isidor Straus (1872-1936) was US ambassador to France 1933-36. His widow, née Irma S. Nathan (1876-1970), kept the collection of French drawings, complemented by French XVIIIe furniture, boiseries and objets d'art, in her Park Avenue apartment.
Lit.: Seligman 1961
(Irma Straus): New York, Parke-Bernet, 21.X.1970:
Lot 19: La Tour, Mme de Lafrète
Jules STRAUS:
Paris, Georges Petit, 3-4.VI.1929
Lot 73: La Tour, Voltaire
R. E. SUMMERFIELD ( -a.1989), antiques dealer in Cheltenham who amasssed a very large collection of objects.
London, Christie's, 27-28.X.1989: prints, watercolours etc.; 2.XI.1989: pictures.
London, Christie's, 5.XII.1989:
Lot 62: Liotard, jeune femme
Alfred SÜSSMANN ( -1921), banker, 64 avenue Malakoff. His sale included a wide range of furniture, pictures, objets d'art etc.
Paris, Petit, 18-19.V.1922:
Lot 50: Russell, Cavendish sisters
George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of SUTHERLAND (1786-1861), v. Lenoir
Birger SVENONIUS (1870-1952), Stockholm, lawyer and collector.
Berlin, Wertheim, 30.IV.1930:
Lot 109: Mme Roslin, Peill
Sylvestre, v. Silvestre
Owen SWINEY (1676-1754), impresario. He departed from London in 1713 when his theatre at the Haymarket was in debt, and travelled in Italy and France for a number of years. He acted as agent for Rosalba Carriera and her English clients (among them, the Duke of Richmond) from about 1721 for the rest of his life, both in Italy and back in London.
Lit.: Sani 1985; Ingamells 1997
London, Langford, 28.II.-1.III.1755:
Carriera
Lot 53: A head of Lord Boyne, in Crayons, 3 qrs; a head of the Earl of Huntingdon, in Crayons, 3 qrs
Lot 54: Ditto of Mr Barnard. Ditto of Mr Wynn
Lot 55: Ditto of the Earl of Radnor. Ditto of Mr Chambers
Lot 56: Ditto of Mr Graham
L. TABOURIER, expert.
Vente p.m., Paris, 20-22.VI.1898:
Pastels: Vigée Le Brun, sa fille
Richard, 5th Baron TALBOT DE MALAHIDE (1846-1921) of Malahide Castle, near Dublin: a large collection of Hamilton pastels was recorded in 1912, mostly family portraits.
Dictionary, genealogy, Talbot
Marie-Joseph d'Hostun, comte de Tallard, 2e duc d'Hostun, dit de TALLARD (1684-1755). A soldier, he was promoted to the Saint-Esprit four years before the death of his father, the maréchal de Tallard, in 1728. His weaalth allowed him to assemble a spectacular collection of old master pictures from sales such as those of Verrue and Crozat. Carriera was almost the only contemporary artist he included.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Simon Jervis, "Mariette's annotated copies of the Tallard and Jullienne sale catalogues", Burlington magazine, cxxxi/1037, .VIII.1989, pp. 559-61; Grove 1996
Vente p.m.: Paris, Grignard, Remy, 22.III.- 13.V.1756:
Rosalba Carriera
Lot 117: Deux Tableaux des plus précieux de cette Fille célebre, peints au pastel; chacun desquels est composé d'un grouppe de deux Figures de femmes en demi-corps, qui caractérisées par des attributs convenables au sujet, représentent dans le premier Tableau la Paix & la Justice, & dans le second les deux poésies; celle qui chante les louanges de Dieu, & celle qui ne connoît que les plaisirs & les jeux. Cette dernière est courronné de fleurs, & la tête de sa Compagne est environnée d'étoiles. Ces deux morceaux sont sous des glaces, ils viennent du Cabinet de M. Pasquier. Ils avoient été apportés en France par M. le Cardinal de Polignac. Il seroit difficile de trouver deux plus beaux pastels que ceux que nous annonçons. Ils ont cela de singulier, que ce sont des compositions, & que les autres pastels du même auteur ne consistent pour la plupart qu'en une seule tête. Les talents supérieurs de Mlle. Rosalba, dans la peinture au pastel, sont universellement reconnus. L'on trouve dans ses ouvrages le gracieux de la composition, joint à une touche spirituelle, & à un coloris seducteur. Notre Académie Roiale se trouve infiniment flattée de compter au nombre de ses Membres cette excellente Artiste. [1800 [ou] 2800 livres; Silvestre pour Mme la Dauphine];
Lot 204: Six Tableaux, qui seront divisés à la Vente; savoir, cinq Portraits des Dames de France, tant à l'huile qu'au pastel, couverts de glaces, dont un sans bordure; la premiere Fille de M. le Dauphin, peinte à l'huile: M. le Duc de Bourgogne, d'après M. Natier: un Portrait de Louis XIV à Cheval; & une Femme dans le Bain [392 livres]
Lot 456: Daniel Dumoustier, Deux très beaux Portraits de Vieillards au pastel [100 livres; Glomy pour M. Silvestre]
Lot 466: Deux Pastels fort bien touchés dans la maniere de Teniers par M. Aubert, l'un représente une vieille Femme, & l'autre un Vieillard [17 livres; Basan; Bazan rachettés pr de Vence 24 livres]
Lot 497: Frederic Baroche d'Urbin, Une belle tête au Pastel fort bien conservée [23 livres 19 sols; Glomy pour M. Silvestre]
Lot 498: Frederic Baroche d'Urbin, Quatre têtes au Pastel, du Baroche et de son Ecole [19 livres; Remy/?Silvestre]
Lot 658: Jacques del Ponte, dit le Bassan, Deux Desseins, dont un légerement touché au pastel, est une Etude pour une Adoration des Bergers [10 livres 1 sol avec les lots 659 & 660; Remy]
TAVERNI DE BOULLONGNE.
Paris, 30-31.VIII.1796
Mrs Elizabeth M. TAYLOR: gave large groups of sketches by William Artuad to the British Museum and Nottingham Castle in 1972/73. Possibly related to the artist Richard Taylor (*.1872-1901), whose copy of one of the Artaud drawings was also included.
E. TENCÉ.
Paris, Lechat, Pillet, 27.IV.1882:
Lot 32: La Tour, inconnu
Greve Carl Gustaf TESSIN (1695-1770), celebrated connoisseur, Swedish ambassador in Paris 1739-42, with his wife, née Ulrika Lovisa Sparre (1711-1768). In 1741 Tessin sent the pictures he had bought in Paris back to Stockholm; the list is reprinted below. Some (marked LU) were sold to Lovisa Ulrika (collection catalogued by C. W. von Düben). The remainder were dispersed at public sales, at Åkerö, 4-16.II.1771 or at Stockholm, Académie des Arts libéraux, 1786. Tessin's support for Lundberg was critical in establishing that artist's position in Paris. Their relationship remained close after Tessin returned to Sweden, with Lundberg following a few years later. Lundberg made innumerable portraits of Tessin, his wife and members of their family.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Lespinasse 1911, p. 319-37; Chardin 1979; Chatelus 1991, pp. 178, 287f; Grove 1996
Catalogue général de tous les objets qui ont été expédiés à Stockholm de Paris, .VIII.1741.
Pastels: Ballot no. 10
9. Une tête de femme, peinte par Boucher, cadre doré et glace (156 livres)
Ballot no. 12
24. Portrait de la Princesse de Rohan, au Pastel, copié d'après La Tour, cadre doré et glace [350 livres]
Vendu à la vente publique de 1786
25. Portrait au pastel de ma belle-sœur Augusta, en Marchande de Marmotte, par Lundberg, cadre doré et glace [480 livres]
Ballot no. 13
33. Portrait de Carle Sparre. Pastel, glace et cadre [33 livres]
46. Portrait du dauphin, au pastel, cadre doré et glace [60 livres]
Ballot no. 18
80. Portrait de madame Boucher, au pastel, glace et cadre [150 livres]
Ballot no. 25
83. Vénus qui tient un pigeon, peint au pastel par Lundberg, glace et cadre [556 livres]
84. Portrait de Mlle Clermont au pastel, glace et cadre doré [250 livres]
85. Mlle Du Fresne, qui tient un chien, au pastel, glace et cadre doré [60 livres]
Vente succession, Åkerö, 4-16.II.1771:
Des portraits à l'huile:
Buste d'un abbé français, de grandeur naturelle, qui appuie sa tête sur une main et baisse les yeux. Peint sur carton par Charles Coypel et découpé.
Des portraits dessinés:
5 bustes de filles Wingåker, en divers costumes, originaux, peint par M. l'Intendant de cour Lundberg. 21 ½ p.h., 12 p. l., cadre doré et glace.
Pierre TESTARD (1697-1778), art dealer in Paris, active in first half 18th century.
Lit.: Marandet 2003a
Richard THALMANN, banker, and his wife, née Lucie Emma Heilbronn (1875-1947). The Thalmann collection was seized during the war but recuperated.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Pastels: Bornet, dame; Greuze, femme; Labille-Guiard, vicomtesse de Gand; La Tour, Pommyer
Eugene Victor THAW, connoisseur, collector and art dealer since the 1950s. His distinguished collection of 300 European master drawings was presented to the Morgan Library in 1993. His philanthropy has also extended to native American art, presented to the Fenimore Museum in Cooperstown, and he has also donated works to the Frick, the NGA, Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Amtmand Magnus THEISTES.
Copenhagen, 19.III.1792:
Skilderier i Vand, Pastel, og Oliefarve:
Lot 1: [Anon.]: Kong Christian den 6te og Dronning Sophie Magdalene
THÉVENIN.
Paris, Drouot, 28.IV.1906
Coypel [Lundberg], jeune femme; Mme Roslin; Lundberg
Alphonse Wyatt THIBAUDEAU (c.1840-c.1892), dealer
Baron THOMITZ: client of Duveen
Pastels: Frey, Beringhen
Théophile Bürger, dit THORÉ (1807-1869), art critic and collector.
Lit.: F. Haskell, Rediscoveries in art, London, 1976; Chardin 1979
Rev. Robert John thornton (c.1768-1837), MD. Dr Thornton's Illustrations of the sexual system of Linnæus, 1799; was exhibited 1804 and finally sold by lottery in 1811. The illustrations included four pastels by Russell (Shaw; Thornton; Frontispiece; the nocturnal Cereus).
Mme Paul THUREAU-DANGIN, née Anne-Louise Henriquel-Dupont (1853-1928), wife of the historian Paul Thureau-Dangin (1837-1913), secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie française, mother of François Thureau-Dangin, the assyriologist, and daughter of the engraver and friend of Ingres. She donated a pastel by Nanteuil to the Louvre. The Labille-Guiard acquired at the Garreta sale may have belonged to her son, the assyriologist François Thureau-Dangin (1872-1944).
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Pastels: Labille-Guiard, Vibert; Nanteuil, Dorieu
James Augustine Harvey THURSBY-PELHAM (1869-1947), of Cound Hall, Shropshire and 55 Cadogan Gardens, London, an expert on early English furniture. He also collected portraits of aristocratic subjects before and after the First World War, many acquired from the dealers Pawsey & Payne. Tweny pastels (and a number of watercolours by Downman and others) from this collection (passing via his daugher Emily, Mrs Guy Argles) were sold at Christie's, London, 7.XI.1995 and a further group were sold on 28.XI.2000. The Hamilton portrait of the Marquess of Downshire was the highlight, reaching £377,750.
London, Christie's, 7.XI.1995 (with biographical note):
Ashfield: Lot 39: Stuart; Lot 40: Sir J. & Lady Oxenden; Lot 41: Beale; Lot 42: Lutterell, Baker; Ch. Beale, attr.: Lot 43: Temple; Lot 44, North; English sch.: Lot 45, boy; Lot 46: Camden; Lot 47: Russell, child; Lot 48: a/r Hamilton, Mrs La Touche; Lot 49: Hamilton, Canova; Gardner: Lot 50: Parker; Lot 51, ?Burke; Lot 52, Smith; Lots 53-56, 58, 59: Downman, watercolours; J. R. Smith: Lot 57: Mrs Parkyns; Lot 60: Fox; Lot 61:, Burdett; Lot 67: Tischbein, lady; Lot 69: J. R. Smith, lady; Lot 70: Beauclerk, boy
London, Christie's, 28.XI.2000:
Lot 2: Hamilton, Downshire; Gardner: Lot 17: Mrs Sheridan; Lot 18: Lady Talbot; Lot 19: Lady Williams-Wynn; Lot 20: girl
Other pastels: Gardner, Shaftesbury; Hoare, man
Baron Hans Heinrich THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA (1921-2002), industrialist and art collector. Most of the (more than 1000) paintings, formerly known as the Sammlung Schloß Rohoncz and held at the Villa Favorita, Lugano, are now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. The collection originally included pastels by Carriera and Troost.
Lit.: Heinemann 1930; Heinemann 1969
Jan Willem Reinier TILANUS (1823-1914), professor of surgery at the University of Amsterdam, married Johanna Victoire Liotard,
great-granddaughter of the artist, who inherited most of the Liotard family collection in 1873, with the exception of 16 works bequeathed
to the Rijksmuseum. A few Liotards were included in the large sale in 1934.
Lit.: R&L
Amsterdam, 24.X.1934 & seq.
Eugène TONDU.
Vente p.m., Paris, Pillet, Febvre, 24-26.IV.1865:
Lot 127: Fragonard, La Fête à Rambouillet
Pierre-Henri TONDU-LEBRUN (1754-1793), ministre des affaires étrangères.
Pastel: La Tour, auto
Jeronimus TONNEMAN (1687-1750), collector. In addition to his own portrait, he owned a number of pastels by Troost.
Arthur TOOTH & Sons, London art delers, active c.1928
M. TOURNELLE [Fournelle or Cournelle in Lugt].
Paris, Joullain, 14.X.1776 & seq.
Lot 46: [Anon.]: Plusieurs tableaux en pastel & en mignature; Lot 118: Chantreau, Six compositions & études, au pastel & à l'encre de la Chine, 3 livres 1 sol avec le lot 119; Lot 201: Natoire, Tête de femme, au pastel, 8 livres 3 sols avec le lot 202; Joullain
TOURNIER.
Paris, Chariot, Joullain, 14-21.IV.1773:
Lot 72: Frederic Baroche d'Urbin, La Visitation de la Vierge & une belle tête d'Ange, au pastel
Charles TOWNELEY or Townley (1737-1805), antiquarian, art collector, Dilettanti. Of Jacobite origin, Townley was educated in Douai and
was in Paris until 1758, and travelled several further times to France and Italy. Several pastels of Prince Charles (Hamilton, La Tour) were at
Towneley Hall.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Ingamells 1997
Charles TOWNLEY (1746-c.1800), little-known painter and engraver, recorded in Italy 1773-76, where he borrowed money from his namesake. An engraving of Cunningham's portrait of Friedrich August Herzog zu Braunschweig-Öls suggests that he may have lived in Berlin when he lent the Hainchelin pastel to the Berlin salon.
Lit.: Ingamells 1997
Pastels: Hainchelin, Baumann
Édouard, 5e duc de TRÉVISE (1883-1946) inherited the title (created for maréchal Mortier in 1807) from the 4e duc in 1912; the 1917 posthumous sale was that of his aunt, widow of the 3e duc, née Marie Adèle Emma Le Coat de Kerveguen.
Vente p.m., Paris, Mauger, 7.V.1917:
Lot 26: Prud'hon, Joséphine
London, 9.VII.1936:
Lot 116: La Tour, Jolyot de Crébillon
Paris, Charpentier, 19.V.1938:
Lots 39, 40: Nanteuil, hommes
Charles Aloysius Barnewall, 18th Baron TRIMELSTOWN (1861-1937), of Turvey House, County Dublin, and Trimelstown Castle, County Meath.
London, 2.II.1907
Lot 151: La Tour, inconnu
The Liotard pastel of François TRONCHIN (1704-1798) alludes to his collection by a Rembrandt on the easel. In addition to numerous family portraits by artists from Liotard and La Tour to Juel, various generations have owned pastels by Liotard and Carriera.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Chatelus 1991, p. 287f
Louis-François TROUARD (1729-1794), architect and collector.
Lit.: Chardin 1979
Paris, Chariot, Paillet, 22-27.II.1779:
Lot 1: Rosalba Carriera, Deux belles Têtes, peintes au pastel: l'une paroît considérer un chien, l'autre est vue de profil, hauteur 12 pouces, largeur 9, 300 livres
Jean-François de TROY (1679-1752), artist and collector.
Dictionary, artists
Vente p.m., Paris, Remy, 9.IV.-5.V.1764:
Rosalba Carriera
Lot 26: Un Tableau des plus parfait de cette illustre Fille, peint au pastel, représentant une femme à mi-corps, coeffée en cheveux & couronnée de laurier, le bras droit est nud; elle tourne le feuillet d'un livre: ce morceau, qui est sous glace, vingt quatre pouces de haut sur dix neuf de large
Barocci
Lot 344: Une Tête en pastel, par Frederic Baroche d'Urbin
Deshays
Lot 503: Le Portrait de Louis XV peint au pastel, il est vu presque à mi-corps & en cuirasse, sous glace, vingt quatre pouces de haut sur dix neuf pouces six lignes
Lot 504: Le Portrait de Madame la premiere Dauphine, peint aussi au pastel, sous glace, & de même grandeur
Jean-Charles-Philibert TRUDAINE DE MONTINGY (1733-1777).
Dictionary, genealogy
Paris, 20-24.XII.1777:
Lot 33: Boucher, [La Voluptueuse & La Dormeuse], 15 p. x 12p., sur vélin
Brigadier C. E. TRYON-WILSON (c.1910-2001), of Dalham Tower, Cumbria.
London, Sotheby's, 4.VII.2002:
Lot 107: Read, Fitzroy children
Other pastels: Gardner, Lady Bromley; Wilson
Mme G. de T...
Bordeaux, Duval, 22-23.IV.1915:
Lots 118, 119: La Tour, inconnus
Mrs Alec TWEEDIE, née Ethel Brilliana Harley (1860-1940), artist, traveller, sportswoman and writer; daughter of Dr George Harley, physician. Her home at Devonshire House, Mayfair was filled with treasures and mementoes of her extensive travels.
Mackworth, Hansons, 10.VI.2009:
Lot 500: Scouler, pendants
Le comte Alfred TYSZKIEWICZ. Various members of this Lithuanian family were collectors; the Egyptian collections of count Michal (1828-1897) are of particular importance.
Paris, Georges Petit, 13.XII.1922:
Russell, Lot 7: Mrs Jackson; Lot 8: Miss Russell
Professor Dr. Emerich ULLMANN (1861-1937), Vienna, pioneer in renal transplantation
Lit.: L. Grünstein, Die Bildnisminiatur und Ihre Meister: Die Sammlung Prof. Dr. Emerich Ullmann, Wien, 1925
Léandre VAILLAT (1878-1952), art historian, co-author of works on pastels with Ratouis de Limay (q.v.).
Jean VALADE (1710-1787), pastellist and art dealer.
Dictionary, artists
Inv. p.m., 17.XII.1787
Carriera[??], ??Bordoni; Coypel, Jésus
Mme la baronne VALDELOMÁR.
Vente p.m., Lucerne, Fischer, 31.VII.1923
Lot 32: Vigée [?Glain], homme; Lot 33: Vigée [?Lenoir], dame; Lot 37: Perronneau, femme
Cardinale Silvio VALENTI GONZAGA (1690-1756): his collection of over 800 paintings forms the nucleus of the Pinacoteca Capitolina. His inventory included a number of items described as pastels. A celebrated painting by Giovanni Paolo Panini shows his picture gallery in 1749; in it Rosalba's Continents are visible. His protégé Subleyras painted his portrait.
Lit.: Olsen 1951; Mantua 2005
Pastels: Barocci; Bramer; Carriera; Isabella Farnese; Rembrandt; Sacchi; Italian sch.
Jean-Pierre-Émile VALLET, conservateur du musée de Bordeaux.
Paris, Chevallier, 25.I.1884:
Lot 48: éc. de La Tour, femme
Bordeaux, Duguit, Barancou, 17-19.V.1899:
Fragonard, femme; Éc. fr., étude
VALLET & al.
Paris, Chariot, Joullain, 7.IV.1774
Tableaux au pastel, à gouache, & en miniature
Lot 55: Le Buste du Roi d'après M. le Moine; il est peint en grisaille au pastel, hauteur 19 pouces, largeur 14 pouces [6 livres 1 sol]
Lot 56: Un Portrait de Femme; elle tient un masque [3 livres 11 sols]
Lot 57: Le Portrait d'une Dame qui se passe un anneau au doigt. [6 livres 11 sols]
Lot 68: Deux Têtes de jeunes Filles, vues de profil; elles sont dessinées au crayon noir & blanc mêlé d'un peu de pastel, par M. Grillet [14 livres 19 sols]
John James VALLOTTON ( -1828), a fashionable haberdasher, of Clifton House, Old Brompton, acquired a number of John Russell pastels at the sale on 14.II.1807. His son Howell Leny Vallotton (1795-1858), a fancy warehouseman, of 6 Hyde Park Gate, was responsible for developing a large part of Kensington; the pastels were with his daughter Eliza (1818-1902), of 4 Essex Villas, Campden Hill, in 1894.
Cornelius VANDERBILT (1794-1877) built the shipping and railroad businesses tht established the fortune of this New York family. His grandson William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849-1920) was a founder of the Jockey Club in 1894, and later established the Haras du Quesnay near Deauville. His daughter Consuelo (1877-1964) married the Duke of Marlborough. His second wife, Anne Harriman, lent a La Tour pastel (dame) to an exhibition in New York in 1907.
Benjamin VAN DER GUCHT (1753-1794), artist and collector.
Dictionary, artist
London, Christie's, 11-12.III.1796:
Lot 2, Two of the seasons in crayons by ditto [Old V.D. Gucht], after [Rosalba] [£2/12/-; Ammigion?]
Jean-Baptiste VAN LOO (1684-1745), peintre, some of whose picture collection appeared in the posthumous sale of his son Louise-Michel (1707-1771).
Dictionary, artists
Lit.: Chardin 1979
(LMvL): Vente p.m., Paris, 24.XII.1772
Gérard VAN SPAENDONCK (1746-1822), peintre.
Vente p.m., Paris, Coutelier, 15.VII.1822:
Lot 36: La Tour, Watelet
Jean-Antoine VASSAL DE SAINT-HUBERT (1741-1782) owned pastels by Chardin, Mme Fragonard and Rosalba. In his 1774 sale, which achieved a total of 92,149 livres, paintings of all schools were represented, including some 64 of the finest Dutch pictures as well as the most modern French artists. Several subsequent sales (1779, 1783) included large numbers of drawings. He lived in the rue Vivienne in 1774.
Dictionary, genealogy
Lit.: Durand 1996, p. 535
Paris, Remy, 17-21.I.1774:
Lot 128: Koasqui, Polonois [Kucharski]: Le portrait de M***. pastel, hauteur 22 pouces 6 lignes, largeur 17 pouces, ovale
Paris, Remy, 29.III.-13.IV.1779:
Rosalba Carriera
Lot 249: Le portrait d'une Angloise aimable, vue de trois quarts, & ayant des fleurs dans ses cheveux; elle est vêtue d'une robe d'écarlate, garnie d'hermine, qu'elle soutient avec sa main droite; ce morceau est précieux, tant par la fraîcheur des teintes, que par sa conservation, pastel, vingt et un pouces de haut sur seize pouces six lignes [580?/1101? livres; J. Desmarets]
Lot 250: Buste de Femme, tenant des fruits, peint aussi par Carriera, pastel, dix sept pouces de haut sur treize pouces de large [200?/280? livres]
Copies par Mme Filleul d'après Rosalba:
Lot 261: Une Femme en demi-figure, caressant un lapin blanc [120 livres 1 sol]
Lot 262: Autre tête de femme. [79 livres]
Paris, 24.IV.1783:
Lot 99: Carriera; Lot 100, Boucher, buste de femme vue en face, portant de sa main droite une draperie, un bouquet orne ses cheveux, 22 pouces sur 17 pouces ovale; Lot 101: Chardin, homme à la toque; Lot 102: goût de Fragonard, Buste de jeune femme orné d'une fraise, 11 pouces 9 sur 8; Lot 103: Greuze, femme en chemise, 14 pouces 3 sur 11 pouces 6; Lot 104: deux bustes de femme, 14 pouces sur 11 pouces 3; Lot 105: Pillement, 2 pstls; Lot 106: goût de Greuze; Lot 107: buste de femme; Lot 174: Lépicié, Buste de fille, vue presque de face, elle a sur la tête une espèce de voile, dessin aux trois crayons
Charles-Joseph VATEL (1816-1885): trained as a lawyer, he became interested in the French Revolution and wrote numerous pieces about Charlotte Corday. His donations to the Louvre (now in the château de Versailles) and the musée Lambinet in 1883 included several pastels of Revolutionary figures.
Pastels: Boze; Bounieu; Brard; Brou; Langlois; Éc. fr.
Joseph-Hyacinthe-François-de-Paule de Rigaud, comte de VAUDREUIL (1740-1817), patron and collector. Many of his pictures were acquired under the influence of Le Brun, with whose wife he was also closely allied. Financial pressures forced the sale through Le Brun of his main collection (24-25.XI.1784); many of these northern paintings are now in the Louvre. Calonne's fall led to his exile three years later, and the sale of his remaining collection.
Dictionary, genealogy, Rigaud
Lit.: Grove 1996
Paris, Le Brun, 26.XI.1787 & seq.
Arthur VEIL-PICARD (c.1861-1944), of 63 rue de Courcelles, banker and "le premier amateur de Paris" according to Gimpel 1963, he was also much involved in horse racing.
Pastels: Boucher, Mme Baudouin; Carmontelle; La Tour, Rouillé de l'Etaing; M. & Mme Roussel de Courcy; Schmidt; marquise de Sesmaisons; Watelet; inconnue; Perronneau, M. et Mme Boyer; Boyer enfant; Mme Roslin, Mme Robert; Russell, Mrs Currie; Emily de Visme; Anon., Pierre Boyer
Claude-Alexandre de Villeneuve, comte de VENCE (1703-1760), lieutenant-général des armées du roi, commandant à la Rochelle, colonel du régiment royal-Corse, collector; subject of portraits by Bernard and Vialy
Dictionary, genealogy, Villeneuve
Vente p.m., Paris, Remy, 9-17.II.1761:
Lot 176: Coypel, jeune asiatique [21 livres 2 sols; Basan]
Nicolas VÉNEVAULT (1697-1775), miniaturist.
Paris, rue Saint-Thomas du Louvre, Hubert, 26.III.1776
The firm of VERDÉ-DELISLE & Cie was celebrated for its lace-manufacture, resulting in the Légion d'honneur for its founder Paul Joseph (1829-). Gaston Verdé-Delisle (1862-1928) and his wife, née Antoinette du Buit (1873-1962), owned a préparation for La Tour's Mme de Mondonville in 1908-28. Two La Tour préparations were with Jean in 1928.
Louis-Gabriel, marquis de VÉRI-RAIOUNARD (1722-1785).
Lit.: Rosenberg & Bailey, Burlington magazine,.IV.2001
Paris, Boileau, Paillet, 12-14.XII.1785
Dr P. VÉRON.
Paris, Drouot, 17-18.III.1858:
La Tour (Antoine de)
Lot 75: Mme Grimod de la Reynière [Fr2650]
Lot 76: Mlle Sallé [Fr1550]
Mrs Robert Newlin VERPLANCK, née Katherine Brinckerhoff: donation to Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1941.
Dictionary, genealogy, s.n. Crommelin
Lit.: Joseph Downs, "The Verplanck room", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, xxxv/12, .XII.1940, pp. 234-36
Pastels: Anspach, Crommelin
La comtesse de VERRUE, née Jeanne-Baptiste-Geneviève d'Albert de Luynes (1670-1736), famous connoisseur of Dutch and Flemish art, and a noted bibliophile, with a library of over 18,000 volumes; mistress of Vittorio Amedeo II, duca di Savoia, who allowed her to keep many of her pictures after she fled from Turin.
Dictionary, genealogy, Albert de Luynes
Lit.: Barbara Scott, "The Comtesse de Verrue", Apollo, .I.1973; Constance Rubini, "Les collections de la comtesse de Verrue", in Dijon 2001, pp. 132ff.
George VERTUE (1684-1756), engraver, antiquary and art historian. He made some 500 portrait engravings. He joined Kneller's academy in 1711, and was appointed engraver to the Society of Antiquaries in 1717. He recorded his researches on the development of art in Britain from about 1713. His notebooks (acquired by Horace Walpole, and used as the primary source for much of Walpole's Anecdotes) were published by the Walople Society, 1929-52; they are in some respects parallel to Mariette's Abécédario. Vertue owned Faithorne's pastel of Milton.
Mme H. VIAN.
Vente p.m., Paris, Drouot salle 1, 18.XII.1919:
Lot 36: Ch. Coypel, attr., homme
Alfred Henry VICKERY ( -1868): bequeathed the Russell petite fille aux cerises to the Louvre.
VIDAL, premier violon de la Chapelle de Charles X.
Vente p.m., Paris, 3-5.II.1868:
Lots 138, 139: La Tour, inconnus
Citoyen VILLERS, amateur painter and collector.
Lit.: Bénézit
Vente p.m., Paris, Blanc, Regnault, 2.XII.1795:
Lot 30: Deux Têtes de Femmes, Etudes librement peintes en pastels, par Hall. [5500 frs]
Marie-Joseph-Frédéric VILLOT (1809-1875), engraver, conservateur de la peinture au musée du Louvre 1848-61, best known as a friend of Delacroix, who portrayed Villot c.1832 (Prague, National Gallery). He published an article on Hall in 1867.
Lit.: "Delacroix et Villot, le roman d'une amitié", Musée national Eugène-Delacroix, 8.IV.-20.VII.1998
Paris, Delbergue, Vignères, 16-18.V.1859:
Lot 115: Fragonard, L'amour de l'or
Paris, Pillet, Laneuville, 25.I.1864
François-André VINCENT (1746-1816), painter.
Dictionary, artist
Vente p.m., en son domicile, Paris, 1 rue de Seine, 17-19.X.1816
Portraits au pastel par feue Mme Guyard, femme Vincent
Lot 53: Le portrait de Monsieur, maintenant Louis XVIII; Lot 54: Mme Victoire; Lot 55: Mme Adélaïde; Lot 56: Mme Élisabeth; Lot 57: Vien, peintre; Lot 58: Deux autres portraits de femmes
Madeleine-Julie-Julienne VINCENT DE SAINT-VINCENT.
Paris, Bonnefons, 13.X.1815:
Lot 32: [Anon.] Deux pastels, une tête & deux gravures et un Christ [7 frs 55]
Jules-Henry VIOLETTE (1809- ), chimiste, commissaire des poudres et salpêtres, de la Société des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts de Lille, adjoint au maire de Lille. He bequeathed two pastels of the actor Carlin and his wife (Glain, Éc. fr.) to the musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille in 1880. A M. Violette, curé de Notre-Dame de Saint-Quentin, owned the La Tour auto (now in the Norton-Simon Museum) before Boitelle (a.1866).
Peter VISCHER-SARASIN (1753-1823), dealer and collector of prints and drawings, Basel. Much of his collection was inherited by his son Peter Vischer-Passavant (1779-1851).
Lit.: Lugt 2115
Pastels: Pillement, paysage
Joseph Raphaël, baron VITTA (1860-1942), patron contemporary artists from Rodin to Besnard and of Jules Chéret in particular, and benefactor of a number of French museums. He also owned an important violin by Guarneri, now in the Library of Congress.
Paris, Ader, Schoedler, 15.III.1935, tableaux modernes
Pastels: La Tour (2); Lenoir
Auguste VITU.
Paris, 30.XI.1891
Paris, 4.XII.1891
VOGÜÉ: A distinguished family including a number of historians and writers, as well as art collectors. The family own the château de Vaux-leVicomte. Melchior, marquis de Vogüé (1829-1916), de l'Académie française, was an historian and archaeologist; his son, Louis marquis de Vogüé (1868-1948), owned a version of La Tour, Perrinet de Jars. A cousin, Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé (1848-1910), de l'Académie française, had a Nattier. A Labille-Guiard (princesse de La Trémoïlle) descended within her family to comte A. de Vogüé in 1973, possibly Adalbert, Louis's brother. An anonymous sale in 2008 had several pastels of members of this family.
Lit.: Rieder 2000
(EMvtedeV): vente p.m., Paris, Drouot, 27.VI.1910:
Lot 5: Nattier, princesse de Beauvau
Paris, Drouot, PIASA, 25.VI.2008:
Lot 10: Éc. fr., Mme de Vogüé; Lot 21: M.-V. Lemoine [Kucharski], vicomtesse de Béranger
François-Marie Arouet, dit VOLTAIRE (1694-1778): among the philosophe's pictures now at Ferney (v. Collections) were several pastels. He himself was the subject of a vast iconography, including notably several pastels by La Tour. He also wrote about some very minor pastellists who portrayed him at Ferney (Barat; de Wyl, qq.v.).
Dictionary, genealogy
François-Hippolyte WALFERDIN (1795-1880), physicist, inventor of several thermometers, and editor of Diderot (whose bust by Houdon he bequeathed to the Louvre). He was one of the very first collectors of Fragonard, owning 79 of his pictures, not counting miniatures, almost 200 drawings, pastels and engravings.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Paris, 18.V.1860:
Lot 53: Deshays, Jeune fille; Lot 54: Ducreux, Mlle Maillard
Paris, Drouot, Escribe, 12-16.IV.1880:
Fragonard: Lot 346, Sophie; Lot 347, Le Premier Baiser; Lot 348, jeune paysanne; Lot 351, Mlle Olivier
Greuze, auto
Sir Richard WALLACE, Bt (1818-1890), art collector, illegtimate son of 4th Marquess of Hertford (q.v.). His widow (8 1871), née Julie-Amélie-Charlotte Castelnau (1819-1897), inherited the collection; at her death, the pictures at Hertford House were bequeathed to the nation (and are now the Wallace Collection), while the remaining collections, including those in the rue Laffitte, passed to John Murray Scott (q.v.). There were no pastels were in the first group, and only a handful in the second.
Lit.: Duffy & Hedley 2004
(RW): Paris, Pouchet, Mannheim, 26-28.II.1857.
London, Christie's, 16.VI.1900:
Lot 78: Russell, Mrs Eidingtoun
Other pastels: Labille-Guiard, femme; C. Van Loo, dame
Walpole, v. Orford
William Thompson WALTERS (1819-1894), railway tycoon, and his son Henry (1848-1931), founders of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. Henry acquired a Masqerier pastel of Mme Tallien in 1922. Mrs Henry Walters, née Sarah Jones: her sale in 1941 included French furniture, sculpture, taperstries, Sèvres, oriental art as well as picutres by Boucher, Fragonard and Greuze.
Lit.: William R. Johnston, William and Henry Walters: the reticent collectors, Baltimore, 1999
New York, Parke-Bernet, 30.IV.-3.V.1941:
Lot 1202: Russell, Miss Russell
Adolph WARNECK, dealer; E. Warneck was a dealer in antiquities, bronzes, objets d'art etc. His widow's sale in 1905 contained a number of pastels.
Paris, Bonnefons, 10-11.IV.1849
Lot 137, 138: La Tour, inconnus
Mme E. Warneck: vente p.m., Paris, Chevalier, 3-4 & 10-11.V.1905:
La Tour, Lot 111: Brémontier; Lot 112: Mlle Fel; Lot 113: Perronneau, femme; Carriera, Lot 114: femme; Lot 115: homme; Lot 116: Poleni; Lot 117: Troost, justice; Lot 118: Vigée, Daubenton; Lot 119: Vigée Le Brun, sa fille; English sch., Lot 120/121: man; woman
Vienna, Schidlof, 11.IV.1924: miniatures
Paris, Georges Petit, 27-28.V.1926, Tableaux anciens et modernes, including many Dutch pictures
Claude-Henri WATELET (1718-1786), de l'Académie française, receveur général des finances d'Orléans, author and amateur artist and engraver. As an habitué of Mme Geoffrin's salon, and at his own country house near Paris, Le Moulin-Joli, he mixed with the leading Enlightenment figures. He contributed on art to the Encyclopédie, and attempted a Dictionnaire des beaux-arts, finished by Levesque. He travelled widely, and was a member of the academies in Berlin, Cortona and Bologna, of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence, as well as an honorary member of the l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. He collected avidly, particularly the works of his contemporaries, and engravings by Rembrandt were particularly well represented. La Tour exhibited his portrait in the Salon de 1753.
Lit.: Grove 1996
Paris, Paillet, 23.V.1780 & seq.
Vente p.m., Paris, Hayot, Paillet, 12.VI.1786 & seq.
Lot 58: Cinq études de têtes de vieillards, pastel sur papier bleu, par Pierre
Lot 207: Cinq têtes de femmes & vieillards à barbe, au pastel, par le même
WEBBE.
Vente p.m., Paris, 13-14.IV.1849:
Lot 172: La Tour, auto; Lot 181: La Tour, inconnue
de WEBER:
Paris, 14-16.III.1844
Lot 159: La Tour, garçon
John Kellerman WEDDERBURN (1818-1891), of 41 Cadogan Place, London.
Sale p.m., London, Christie's, 3.VI.1892:
Lot 44: La Tour, inconnue
André WEIL: Galerie André Weil, Paris, mounted exhibitions of Carmontelle (1933), Hoin (1934) and eighteenth century gouaches (1936).
Paris, Galliera, 26.III.1963:
Lot 13: La Tour [Allais}, ??Mme Le Riche de La Pouplinière
Francis WELLESLEY, of Westfield Common, Woking: collector specialising in silhouette, plumbago and coloured chalk drawings and miniatures; donated 6 drawings to the British Museum and a pastel to the NPG. His collection was dispersed in numerous London sales between 1914 and 1925.
Lit.: Horace Hart, One hundred silhouette portraits selected from the collection of Francis Wellesley, 1912; G. C. Williamson, "Mr Francis Wellesley's collection of miniatures and drawings", Connoisseur, lii/206, 1918
Pastels: F.-H. Drouais, Marie-Antoinette; Faithorne, man; Gardner, Henderson; Edward Gibson, self;
Hoskins, Henrietta Maria; Humphry, Upcott; Lawrence, Stell; Miss Steel; Perronneau, boy;
Prud'hon, Mme Bougeart; Russell, Lady Hill; Mr & Mrs Medley; The coquette; Saunders, Clementina Walkinshaw
J. WENTWORTH SMITH: his collection of Russells was acquired from prestigious dealers such as Wertheimer.
London, Christie's, 14.XII.1928 :
Lot 64: Gardner, Mrs Hale; Lot 65: Russell, Miss Darby; Lot 66: Mrs Sarah White; Lot 67: Bonar children; Lot 68: Lace makers; Lot 69: Love songs and matches; Lot 70: Persian Sibyl
Samson WERTHEIMER (1811-1892), born in Bavaria, set up a furniture business initially in Greek Street, London. His two sons continued as collectors and dealers.
Charles John Wertheimer (1842-1911), of Norfolk Street, Park Lane, collected china, objets d'art and pictures, a number of
which were stolen in 1907. His large group of English pastels included four sold by Christie's in 1912, with the remainder presumably inherited
by his brother Asher Wertheimer (1844-1918), who had taken control of their father's business. At his posthumous sale in 1920, the £861 fethced by three Russells were
consistent with the "marked depreciations" noted by the Connoisseur.
Some of their pastels descended to Mrs Conway, née Joan Cicely Young (1898–1995), widow of Asher Wertheimer's son Conway
Joseph Conway (1881–1953), barrister, of Turville Court, Henley-on-Thames, before the 2000 sale; one was presented to the Ashmolean Museum, to which Mrs Conway had
donated rococo silver in 1959.
Lit.: Gimpel 1963; Sargent exh. cat. 1998, ed. Elaine Kilmurray & Richard Ormond
(CJW): London, Christie's, 10.V.1912:
Cotes, lady; Russell, three pastels
(AW): London, Christie's, 18.VI.1920:
Carriera, Horace Walpole; Russell, three pastels
London, 14.XII.1928:
Russell, numerous pastels
(Mrs JC): London, Sotheby's, 22.III.2000:
Lot 86: Russell, Faden; Lot 87: Onslow; Lot 88: Shaw; Lot 89: Dupuis; Lot 90: ?Maria Russell; Lot 92, 93: B. & G. Sydenham; Lot 94: Johnson; Lot 95: man 1794; Lot 96: Read, Miss Beatson; Lot 97: Cotes, man
Other pastels: Boucher, jeune fille; Carriera, Robert Walpole; Cotes, Lady Bridges; Sarah Cotes; Lady of Phipps family; Hamilton, Downshire; Hoare, E. Walpole; Lawrence, Mrs Boucherette; Countess of Suffolk; Liotard, Mlles Lavergne; Russell, Mrs Best; Countess of Carlisle; Lady H. E. Cavendish; Misses Earle; Mrs Earle; Garnett family (6); Mr & Mrs Medley; Mrs Raikes; Mrs Robinson; Sarah White; Withers; jeune berger; Persian Sibyl; market girl with pigs 1794; ballad girl; fillette (2); deux fillettes; jeune femme et enfant; Sixc, dame
W. WHEELER & Son, London art dealer c.1958.
Pastels: Belle, dame
Frederick Anthony WHITE (fl.1855-1920) donated a Ducreux autoportrait to the Louvre through the NACF.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Jeffrey WHITEHEAD ( -1915), of Southwood, Bickley, Hampshire, 1894; East Grinstead, Sussex 1915, collector.
Sale p.m., London, Christie's, 6.VIII.1915:
Lot 52: Cotes, lady
Other pastels: Russell, Duchess of Devonshire; Sheridan; Mrs Siddons; officers (2); girl with cherries; filial affection
Forsyth WICKES (1876-1965). His extensive collection of French art was bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where it was installed following the decorative schemes of his own homes - in Paris, rue Weber; the château de Courtmoulins; Tuxedo Park in New York, and Starbord House, Rhode Island - where pictures, furniture and porcelain were intermingled. He had a particular taste for pastels, of which he owned a dozen (v. Collections, Boston, MFA for a list).
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Joseph Early WIDENER (1871-1943), Philadelphia, inherited a fortune from his father derived from provisioning the army during the American civil war. Joseph was a racing enthusiast and a collector of furniture, sculpture, books and drawings; benefactor of the National Gallery of Art.
Nathan WILDENSTEIN (1851-1934), a tailor, left his native Alsace around 1870 and moved to Paris, where, in 1875, he opened a shop
dealing in contemporary French paintings. By 1900 the business had broadened into one of the leading Eropean dealers in old master pictures.
Galleries were opened in New York in 1903, London in 1925 and subsequently in Tokyo and Buenos Aires. His son Georges (1892-1963), art
historian and connoisseur, established an important library and photographic archive, and published the catalogue raisonné of La Tour (1928).
Georges's son Daniel (1917-2001) became chairman of the firm in 1968. He published catalogues on Monet and Renoir and revised and expanded
catalogues on Chardin and Fragonard. His son Guy took over the business in 1990. The firm has handled a number of the most important French
XVIIIe pastels, including La Tour's président de Rieux.
Lit.: New York 2005
Dr George Charles WILLIAMSON (1858-1942), of Burgh House, Hampstead; author of numerous books on pastellists, miniaturists and painters, principally of the English school; he was also bibliophile and collector of drawings and coins.
London, Sotheby's, 31.I.1945
Other pastels: Faithorne, Sturt
John W. WILSON ( -c.1881), English collector and dealer, who was born in Brussels and lived in The Netherlands for over 30 years. He assembled a collection of Dutch, English and French pictures, most of which he bequeathed to the City of Brussels. The closing sale from his galerie in the avenue Hoche numbered some 199 works.
Lit.: Donateurs 1989
Paris, 3 avenue Hoche, 14-16.III.1881:
La Tour, Philippe; Lot 20: Perronneau, Bastard
Levin Yardley WINDER, Virginia; acquired a group of pastels by Sharples when Felix, the artist's son, defaulted on a loan.
H. WINTERFIELD, Nice.
London, Sotheby's, 9.XII.1936:
Lot 96: La Tour [Allais], Mme Le Riche; Lot 97: Lawrence, man; Lot 103: Perronneau, Mme Rancourt; Lot 104: Perronneau, dame avec serviteur
Grenville L. WINTHROP (1864-1943) donated his collection of mainly nineteenth-century art to the Fogg Art Museum in 1943. A travelling exhibition of highlights was in London, National Gallery, 2003. A small number of eighteenth century pastels were included in the Fogg donation.
Pastels: Chardin, ??Bachelier; Copley, Mrs Scollay; La Tour, Garnier d'Isle; Jullienne
Sir Robert Clermont WITT (1872-1952), of 32 Portman Square, lawyer and collector of old master drawings which he left to the Courtauld Institute (v. Collections) in 1952, together with his vast collection of reproductions of pictures.
Pastels: Boze; Hamilton; Hickey, Cosway; Jervas; Lawrence; Russell; E. Sharples; J. R. Smith
Frantz WITTOUCK lent pastels by Gainsborough (Queen Charlotte) and Peters (Mrs Hadden-Brown) to the Paris 1911 exhibition. Paul Wittouck lent a pair of Russells (Mr & Mrs Wilson) to the same exhibition, which descended to E. Wittouck before a 1985 sale.
Samuel WOODBURN ( -1853), major expert and dealer in old master drawings in the 19th century; among his clients was the banker Thomas Dimsdale.
Ian WOODNER (1903-1990), architect and real estate developer. Born in New York, he was educated at the universities of Minnesota and Harvard, and lived for many years in Minneapolis. He became interested in old master drawings in the 1950s. His collection, amounting to more than 1000 sheets, was inherited by his daughters Dian and Andrea, who have loaned or donated 145 works to the NGA, Washington.
Lit.: Washington 1995
Lionel WORMSER HARRIS (1861-c.1940), son of an Irish financier appointed Lord Mayor of Dublin; bequeathed a Russell pastel (Lawrence) to the Tate.
Charles (1895-1986) and Jayne WRIGHTSMAN, major benefactors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lit.: Fahy 2005; Stourton 2007
Pastels: Liotard, Lady Coventry; Perronneau, Journu
George Washington WURTS (1843-1928), US Secretary of Legation at Florence and Rome 1862-82, chargé d'affaires in Russia 1884-89, and his wife, née Henriette Tower (1858-1933): their collection, including a number of pastels, was bequeathed to the Italian state in 1933, and is now in the Palazzo di Venezia (v. Collections).
Dr Michael WYNNE (1937-2003): Irish art historian, keeper and research curator of the National Gallery of Ireland.
Dublin, James Adam, 28.IX.2005:
Lot 35: Frye, man; Lot 95: Lawranson, lady
Miss Emilie YZNAGA ( -1944), sister of Consuelo, Duchess of Manchester ( -1909), daughters of Don Antonio Yznaga del Valle of Cuba and Ravenswood, USA. She owned a Ducreux autoportait in 1935, and presented a number of French paintings to the National Gallery, London (among them the Nattier portraits of Manon Balletti), the Tate, the musées Carnavalet and musée des Arts décoratifs (including five Pillement oils).
M. ZARINE's collection included porcelain, objets d'art as well as pictures.
Paris, Drouot, Boudin, Dubourg, Lair-Dubreuil, 5.XII.1917:
Lot 21: Jacques-André Portail [Boucher], jeune femme