Group Portrait in a Landscape with Amorous Couple

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Group Portrait in a Landscape with Amorous Couple

ca. 1737

oil on canvas

frame: 26 3/4 x 33 3/4 x 4 5/16 in. (67.95 x 85.73 x 11 cm)

Nicolas Lancret
(Paris, France, 1690 - 1743, Paris, France)

CULTURE OR GROUP:

French

OBJECT NAME:

oil paintings (visual works)

CREDIT LINE:

Museum Purchase through the Ellnora D. Krannert Fund

OBJECT NUMBER:

1967-3-5

IMAGE USE:

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WWII Provenance Project

By 1905, Comtesse d’Hautpoul (Paris) [1]; 29 June 1905, Madame Jonas, by purchase from Hôtel Drouot (Paris), 29 June 1905, Comtesse d’Hautpoul sale, lot 44 [2]; 1906, Duveen Brothers (London) [3]. By 1929-30 to 1936, Galerie Cailleux (Paris). 16 March 1967, Palais Galleria (Paris), Timary de Binkum sale, March 16, 1967, lot 28 [4]. 1967, Newhouse Galleries (New York). 1967, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois (Champaign IL), by purchase from Newhouse Galleries (New York) with Ellnora D. Krannert Fund.

Notes:
[1] Previously attributed to Bourbon-Conti Family first. See the denial by Wintermute, 154-5. The Bourbon-Conti connection was based on Duveen’s likely incorrect assertion that a later owner, the Comtesse d’Hautpoul, was a descendant of the Bourbon-Conti. An Exhibition of Masterpieces by French Painters, no. 15. The old title of the painting was based solely on this weak assertion.
[2] Wildenstein, Lancret, 107, no. 562. Check cat. 528 for more on Jonas and Lancret.
[3] An Exhibition of Masterpieces by French Painters, no. 15.
[4] Rand, “The Bourbon-Conti Family,” p. 98.

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DIMENSIONS

framed, frame: 26 3/4 x 33 3/4 x 4 5/16 in. (67.95 x 85.73 x 11 cm)

BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST

Selected bibliographic references:

Marlen Schneider. Belle comme Vénus: Le portrait historié entre Grand Siècle et Lumiéres. Belle comme Vénus: Le portrait historié entre Grand Siècle et Lumiéres Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme. Paris, 2020
Alice Insley and Martin Myrone. Hogarth and Europe. Hogarth and Europe Tate Publishing. London, 2021

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