Sweet Melancholy

Madame Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin [1699-1777], Paris, France Jean Louis Antoine le Vaillant de Damery, Chevalier de l’Ordre Royal Militaire de St-Louis [1723-1803] Comte Jean-Baptiste Dubarry [1723-1794], Toulouse, France (Sale: Jean-Pierre-Baptiste Le Brun and Pierre Remy, Paris, Dubarry sale, Nov. 21, 1774, no. 93, probably bought in) (Pierre Remy, Paris, France) Louis François, 6th Prince de Conti [1717-1776], Paris, France (Sale: Pierre Remy, Paris, France, Prince de Conti sale, April 17, 1777, no. 732, sold to Quenet) Quenet, Paris, France Jean Paul André des Rasins, Marquis de Saint-Marc [1723-1818], Paris, France, by descent to his daughter, Marie de la Roze Marie de la Roze (Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Marquis de Saint-Marc sale, Paris, Feb. 23, 1859, no. 17) (Wildenstein & Company, New York, NY, sold to a private collector, UK) Private noble collection, UK, sold to Danny Katz and Simon Dickinson through William Thuillier (William Thuillier, Paris, France, sold to Danny Katz and Simon Dickinson) (Danny Katz and Simon Dickinson, London, the latter bought out by the former) Danny Katz, London, sold to Emmanuel Moatti and Jack Kilgore (Emmanuel Moatti and Jack Kilgore, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

More Light. Europe Around 1770. Art and Enlightenment. Städel Museum, Franfurt am Main, Germany (August 22, 1999-January 9, 2000). A Voluptuous Taste: French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Tours, France (October 11, 2008-January 12, 2009); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (organizer) (February 7-May 17, 2009). Exhibited at the Salon of 1757. no. 31