Nicolas de Largillière

Vicomte G. Chabert, Paris;

His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 5 June 1909, lot 1;

Where acquired by Mme. Vermaut-Vernon for 49,000 francs;

Watel-Dehaynin Collection, Paris;

With Partridge Fine Arts Ltd., London, by 1974;

From whom acquired by Mrs. Carolyn Skelly (1905-1996), New York;

With Partridge Fine Arts Ltd., London;

From whom acquired by the present collector.

G. Sortais, Largillierre manuscript. [ca. 1912] [manuscript of a catalogue raisonné of the oeuvre, begun ca. 1912, in the Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Da 58, vol. I];

F.J.B. Watson,"The English as Collectors of French Furniture," in Connoisseur 186 (June 1974), p. 81, reproduced;

Summer Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London 1974, p. 150, cat. no. 59;

The Grand Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sixth International Exhibition Presented by C.I.N.O.A., exhibition catalogue, New York 1974, p. 143, cat. no. 137 reproduced;

M. N. Rosenfeld, Largillierre and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait, exhibition catalogue, Montreal 1981, pp. 133-135, cat. no. 22, reproduced;

D. Brême, in Nicolas de Largillierre, 1656-1746, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2003, p. 30, reproduced.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grand Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 October 1974 - 5 January 1975, no. 137;

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Largillierre and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait, 19 September - 15 November 1981, no. 22.