Collection

Cooper Penrose, thence by descent until 1953 [1]; Wildenstein & Co., New York; Acquired by the Putnam Foundation, 1953

Provenance Notes:

[1] A letter from David to Penrose regarding the commission and the payment schedule remained with the Penrose family and is now in the archives of the Timken Museum of Art, along with a typescript history of the Penrose family compiled in August 1966 by direct descendants of the sitter.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, extended loan, 1953-55; Cambridge, Mass., The Fogg Art Museum, extended loan, 1955-65; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1986-87, A Magic Mirror: The Portrait in France, 1700-1900, cat. by George T. M. Shackelford and Mary Tavener Holmes, pp. 78, 131, no. 23, ill.

Charles Blanc, Histoire des peintres français au XIXe siècle (Paris, 1845), p. 211; J.-L Jules David, Le Peintre Louis David, 2 vols. (Paris, 1880),1: 642; Joseph Farrington, The Farrington Diary, ed. James Grieg, 8 vols. (London, 1922-28), 2:45-46; Richard Cantinelli, Jacques-Louis David (Paris, 1930), p.110, no.100; Klaus Holma, David: Son Evolution et son style (Paris, 1940), p.128, no.1o6; Agnes Mongan and Elizabeth Mongan, European Paintings in the Timken Art Gallery (San Diego, 1969), pp.100-101, 132-33, no. 38, ill.; Daniel M. Wildenstein, Documents complementaires au catalogue de l'oeuvre de Louis David (Paris, 1973), p.161, no. 1386, p. 209, no.1810, p. 226, no. 1938; Antoine Schnapper, David (New York, 1982), pp. 208, 210, 211, fig. 121; Tim ken Art Gallery: European and American Works of Art in the Putnam Foundation Collection (San Diego,1983), pp. 42-43, 118-19, no. 13, ill.; Luc de Nanteuil, Jacques-Louis David (New York, 1985), pp. 56, 69, fig. 75; Jean-Jacques Leveque, La Vie et l'oeuvre de Jacques-Louis David (Paris, 1989), p. 212, ill.; Antoine Schnapper et al., Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825, exh., cat., Musée du Louvre (Paris, 1989-90), pp. 19, 21,375, 6o1, fig. 93 (in reverse).

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