National Gallery, 1937.1.81.(81)/PA
El cuadro estuvo en posesión del artista hasta su muerte en 1660. Probablemente fue propiedad del marqués de Keriaval (Bretaña, Francia), colección Christiane de Polés, París. Comprado a Knoedler&Co. de Nueva York en 1927 para la colección de Andrew Mellon.
Brown, J. And Mann, R.G. "National Gallery of Art : Spanish paintings of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries" Washington, 1990.p. 118.
In the artist's possession at his death, 1660. Probably Pierre-Armand-Jean-Vincent-Hippolyte, Marquis de Gouvello de Keriaval [1782-1870], Château de Kerlévénant, Sarzeau, Morbihan, Brittany.[1] Madame Christiane de Polès [d. 1936], Paris; sold 5 July 1926 to (Wildenstein and Co., Paris);[2] consigned to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[3] by whom purchased 9 March 1927;[4] purchased on same day by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.;[5] deeded 12 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.
El cuadro estuvo en posesión del artista hasta su muerte en 1660. Probablemente fue propiedad del marqués de Keriaval (Bretaña, Francia), colección Christiane de Polés, París. Comprado a Knoedler&Co. de Nueva York en 1927 para la colección de Andrew Mellon.
Brown, J. And Mann, R.G. "National Gallery of Art : Spanish paintings of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries" Washington, 1990.p. 118.
In the artist's possession at his death, 1660. Probably Pierre-Armand-Jean-Vincent-Hippolyte, Marquis de Gouvello de Keriaval [1782-1870], Château de Kerlévénant, Sarzeau, Morbihan, Brittany.[1] Madame Christiane de Polès [d. 1936], Paris; sold 5 July 1926 to (Wildenstein and Co., Paris);[2] consigned to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[3] by whom purchased 9 March 1927;[4] purchased on same day by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.;[5] deeded 12 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.
[1] The ownership of the painting by the Gouvello de Keriaval is given by August L. Mayer, A Portrait by Veaézquez. Francisca Velézquez, Daughter of the Master (The Woman Sewing), (New York, c. 1935), 4. For a few facts about the collector, Hippolyte de Gouvello, see H. Frotier de la Messalière, Filiations Brétonnes, 1650-1912, (Saint-Briem, 1913): vol. 2, 570.
[2] Noted in 14 September 1988 letter from Mrs. Ay-Whang Hsia, Vice-President of Wildenstein and Co., New York, NGA curatorial files.
[3] The Knoedler stockbooks, kept at The Getty Provenance Index.
[4] Noted in 14 September 1988 letter from Ay-Whang Hsia.
[5] David Finley notebook, copy in NGA curatorial files (original notebook in Gallery Archives).
Associated Names
Gouvello de Keriaval, Pierre-Armand-Jean-Vincent-Hippolyte, Marquis de
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Mellon, Andrew W.
Polès, Christiane de, Madame
Velázquez, Diego
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.
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