Provenance:
– Given to Monseigneur Green de Saint Marsault, the sitter’s confessor, according to a label on the verso;
– Sanzillon Collection, military governor under Louis XVI, Saint-Jory-Lasbloux Château, Dordogne;
– At Master Garrigue’s, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Dordogne, in 1913 ;
– Wildenstein Collection;
– Sold under pressure from German authorities, then restituated;
– Private Collection.
Exhibitions:
“L’Art français au temps de Stanislas,” Bicentennial of Stanislas Place, Nancy, Museum of Fine Arts, June-September 1955, n° 4
Bibliography:
Charles Oulmont, ’J.-E. Heinsius 1740-1812. Peintre de Mesdames de France’, Paris, 1913, p. 92, mentioned in entry n° 77 and republished, Paris, 1970, p. 62
