"Jean-Marc Nattier was a favorite portraitist of King Louis XV of France. He held the lucrative position as the court painter for Queen Mary Lesczynski, the daughter of the exiled king of Poland. The portrait was long thought to be of Madame Henriette de France, one of the daughters of Louis XV and Queen Mary Lesczynski, but this identification is no longer accepted and the sitter remains unknown. There has been considerable confusion over the identity of many of Nattier's sitters, as they tend to conform to an idealized concept of female beauty." [1]
Possibly Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, Duc de Dino (Paris, France).
Possibly Frederick H. Allen (Pelham Manor, New York).
Duveen Brothers (New York, New York), sold to Commodore and Mrs. Louis Dudley Beaumont.
Commodore and Mrs. Louis Dudley Beaumont (Cap d'Antibes, France).
Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1948.
Exhibition history
Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, October 1-November 5, 1950: "Twentieth-Anniversary Celebration," ct. no. 23.
University of Michigan Museum of Art, (Ann Arbor), Nov. 1-Nov. 28, 1951: "Italian, Spanish, and French Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries," cat. no. 40. Grand Rapids (Michigan) Art Gallery, Dec. 12, 1951-jan 9, 1952.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Philbrook Art Center, April-May, 1953: "18th and 19th Century French Painting," no catalogue.
Art Institute of Zanesville, (Ohio), April 4-April 28, 1954: "Masterpieces of Paintings Owned by Ohio Museums," (no catalogue).
35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).
Artlens Exhibition 2019. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer).
Credit line
Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation 1948.183
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