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Portrait of a Woman

c. 1748

Jean-Marc Nattier

(French, 1685–1766)

France, 18th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 108 x 92.5 x 11 cm (42 1/2 x 36 7/16 x 4 5/16 in.); Unframed: 82 x 65 cm (32 5/16 x 25 9/16 in.)

Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation 1948.183

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Though the sitters in his portraits often lack individualized traits, Nattier was fervently sought by French aristocratic women.

Description

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.

Provenance

Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, Duc de Dino, Paris, France, to second wife, Ms. Adele Livingston Sampson

? - 1912

Ms. Adele Livingston Sampson, by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Frederick H. Allen

1912 - 1930

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Allen, Pelham Manor, New York, from whom purchased by Duveen Brothers

1930 - ?

Duveen Brothers (New York, NY), sold to Commodore and Mrs. Louis Dudley Beaumont

Commodore and Mrs. Louis Dudley Beaumont, Cap d'Antibes, France

? - 1948

Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1948.

1948 -

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Henry S. Francis, "A Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XXXV (1948), 221-25, illus. p. 225. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 481 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 136 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 136 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 179 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 104; Mentioned: p. 105

Exhibition history

New York World's Fair: Pavilion of France, 1939: "Five Centuries of History Mirrored in Five Centuries of French Art." Cat. no. 212.

Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, October 1-November 5, 1950: "Twentieth-Anniversary Celebration," cat. 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.”

Art Institute of Zanesville, (Ohio), April 4-April 28, 1954: "Masterpieces of Paintings Owned by Ohio Museums.”

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).

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