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Portrait of Anna Constantia von Brockdorff (1680–1765), Countess von Cosel, and her son Friedrich August (1712–1770), later Count von Cosel, as Venus and Cupid
Portrait of Anna Constantia von Brockdorff (1680–1765), Countess von Cosel, and her son Friedrich August (1712–1770), later Count von Cosel, as Venus and Cupid

Portrait of Anna Constantia von Brockdorff (1680–1765), Countess von Cosel, and her son Friedrich August (1712–1770), later Count von Cosel, as Venus and Cupid

Artist François de Troy French, 1645–1730
Datecirca 1712–1715
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions58 1/2 x 45 1/2 in. (148.6 x 115.6 cm)
Frame: 74 1/2 x 62 x 6 in. (189.2 x 157.5 x 15.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Newhouse Galleries
Object numberG.67.22.2
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceMarquise de Chambrun, Paris (Margaret Rives Nichols [ca. 1872-1949]?); with Newhouse Galleries, New York (by August 1963); given to NCMA, 1967.
Published ReferencesCharles M. Blanc, Histoire des Peintres de Toutes les Ecoles Vol. 1, illus. 1.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 7, nos. 2 and 3 (1967/68?), mentioned 3, listed 66, illus. (b-w) 42, fig. 2.

"Outgoing Loans to Temporary Exhibitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 13, no. 3 (1976), listed 58.

Exhibition HistoryFinch College Museum of Art, NY, "French Masters of the 18th Century," February 27-April 7, 1963, no. 1.

Lexington, KY, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, "19th Century European and American Academic Painting," October 21-November 11, 1973.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Gallery, "Facets of Faces: Functions of Portraits," September 1, 1989-June 1, 1990.

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