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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.271
People
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, French (Paris c. 1715 - 1783 Amsterdam)
Title
Mme. Claude Journu
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1769
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230203

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
72.7 x 60.4 cm (28 5/8 x 23 3/4 in.)
framed: 93.5 x 79.4 x 5.2 cm (36 13/16 x 31 1/4 x 2 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.r. in black paint: Perronneau / 1769
  • inscription: back of stretcher, black ink (or paint), handwritten: 25974
  • inscription: back of frame, black ink (or paint), handwritten: 25974
  • label: back of frame, blue ball-point, handwritten: 4
  • label: back of frame, black ink, printed: 11

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Probably Bernard Journu-Auber, Count de Tustal, son of Bonaventure Journu, by descent; to Genevieve Le Grix de La Salle, his daughter, and Jacques Le Grix de La Salle, Château de Grands Verdus, à Sedisac, Gironde, 1816, by descent; to Albert Le Grix de La Salle, Bordeau, by descent; to M. Arthur De Richemont, his brother-in-law, Bordeaux, 1911. [Demotte, New York, 1918], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, 1921, bequest; to Fogg Art Museums, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.271
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Explication des Peintures, Sculptures, et Graveurs, de Messieurs de l'Académie Royale, exh. cat., Académie Royale de Peinture, etc. (Paris, 1769), p. 13, no. 50
  • Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (troisième article), Gazette des Beaux-Arts (April 1, 1896), p. 310
  • Léandre Vaillat and Paul Ratouis de Limay, J. - B. Perronneau (1715-1783) Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre, Librairie Nationale d'Arte et d'Historie (Paris, 1923), pp.102-104, repr. as pl. 33
  • Perronneau à Bordeaux, 1989, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, pp. 117-118, repr. p. 117
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

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