Portrait of a Woman
Artist
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
French, 1715–1783
Date1768
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions29 x 23 9/16 in. (73.7 x 59.8 cm)
Frame: 36 3/16 x 30 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (91.9 x 78.1 x 8.3 cm)
Frame: 36 3/16 x 30 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (91.9 x 78.1 x 8.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of John L. Loeb
Object numberG.56.1.1
On View
Not on viewProvenancePossibly Anonymous, sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 8, 1908, lot 23, illus., sold (or bought in?); to Sortais [1]; Wildenstein, Paris, 1924 [2]; Carl M. Loeb (d. 1955) [3], New York, by May 1940 [4]; to his son, John L. Loeb [5] (1902–1996), New York; given to NCMA, 1956.
[1] George Sortais was a peintre-expert for the sale, thus the painting may actually have been bought in. Léandre Vaillat and Paul Ratouis de Limay, J.-B. Perronneau 1715–1783), sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, n.d., p.140, cites 1908 sale and gives the purchase price.
[2] Annotation on photograph in Witt Photo Archive [microfiche at GRI]
[3] Carl Loeb was an immigrant from Germany who made a fortune early in life by gaining control of the American Metal Company and went on to become a co-founder with his son and two other partners of Loeb, Rhoades and Company. In January 1956, following his death, Carl Loeb’s partners donated $500,000 to endow a professorship at Harvard University in his memory. The Carl Loeb Center of New York University also honors him.
[4] Walter Pach, Catalogue of European & American Paintings 1500–1900 (Masterpieces of Art, New York World’s Fair, May to October 1940), p.147, cat. no. 216, ill., as lent by Mr. Carl M. Loeb, New York.
[5] John L. Loeb was an investor and philanthropist. He was long the head of the Wall Street firm of Loeb, Rhoades and Company, a predecessor of Shearson Lehman/American Express.
[1] George Sortais was a peintre-expert for the sale, thus the painting may actually have been bought in. Léandre Vaillat and Paul Ratouis de Limay, J.-B. Perronneau 1715–1783), sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, n.d., p.140, cites 1908 sale and gives the purchase price.
[2] Annotation on photograph in Witt Photo Archive [microfiche at GRI]
[3] Carl Loeb was an immigrant from Germany who made a fortune early in life by gaining control of the American Metal Company and went on to become a co-founder with his son and two other partners of Loeb, Rhoades and Company. In January 1956, following his death, Carl Loeb’s partners donated $500,000 to endow a professorship at Harvard University in his memory. The Carl Loeb Center of New York University also honors him.
[4] Walter Pach, Catalogue of European & American Paintings 1500–1900 (Masterpieces of Art, New York World’s Fair, May to October 1940), p.147, cat. no. 216, ill., as lent by Mr. Carl M. Loeb, New York.
[5] John L. Loeb was an investor and philanthropist. He was long the head of the Wall Street firm of Loeb, Rhoades and Company, a predecessor of Shearson Lehman/American Express.
Published ReferencesLéandre Vaillat & Paul Ratouis de Limay, J. B. Perronneau (Paris and Brussels, 1923), 195, 225
Henry de Courcy May, "The Spirit of the Eighteenth Century," Art News (December 15-31, 1942), 9-21
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 160, illus. (b-w).
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 153.
Dominique d’Arnoult, Jean Baptiste-Perroneau (ca. 1715–1783) (Paris: Arthena, 2014), no. 292P, illus. (b-w).
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, New York World’s Fair, 1940, cat. no. 216.
Hickory, NC, The Hickory Museum of Art, “Beyond Likeness: Contemporary Considerations of the Portrait,” November 1-December 31, 1997; Wilmington, NC, St. John’s Museum of Art, April 30-June 28, 1998; Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, July 11-August 30, 1998; Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, September 17, 1998-January 2, 1999; Greenville, NC, Greenville Museum of Art, January 14-February 28, 1999, brochure. (Outreach exhibition)
Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "Eighteenth Century Paintings and Sculptures From the North Carolina Museum of Art," April 21, 2002 – March 30, 2003.
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