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The Little Schoolmistress
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardinafter 1740
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: The Little Schoolmistress
- Creator: Jean Siméon Chardin
- Date Created: after 1740
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 58.3 x 74 cm (22 15/16 x 29 1/8 in.) framed: 80 x 95.9 x 11.4 cm (31 1/2 x 37 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Casimir Perrin, marquis de Cypierre [1783-1844], Paris; (his estate sale, at his residence by Thoré, Paris, 10 March 1845 and days following, no. 24). Albert, vicomte de Curel [1827-1908], Paris;[1] his heirs; (his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 25 November 1918 [originally scheduled for 3 May 1918], no. 26 [misprinted in auction catalogue as 23]); (M. Knoedler & Co., London, New York, and Paris);[2] sold May 1919 to Frank D. [d. 1927] and Clara W. [d. 1949] Stout, Chicago; on consignment to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[3] purchased 28 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[4] gift 1937 to NGA. [1] The vicomte de Curel, at whose 1918 estate sale the NGA painting was sold, has been identified by François Auffret, Président of La Société des Amis de Jongkind in Paris (founded 1970), with confirmation from the collector's descendants. With M. Auffret's kind permission, his research was shared with the NGA by Dr. Diana Kostyrko (e-mails, October through December 2008, in NGA curatorial files). [2] See the Knoedler envelope containing a statement by George Sortais about the signature on the painting in which he describes the painting as "acheté par nous à cette vente" (11 December 1918, in NGA curatorial files). [3] On sale to Stout see Knoedler sales book no. 11, page 256. For the consignment from the Stout heirs, see Knoedler commission book no. 3, number 1103 under consignments for 19 February 1937, although it is annotated as sold December 1936 to the Mellon Trust; the sale date to the Mellon Trust is also confirmed in Knoedler sales book no. 13. All M. Knoedler & Co. records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (copies, NGA curatorial files). [4] The Mellon Trust purchase date is according to Mellon collection files in NGA curatorial records and David Finley's notebook (donated to the NGA in 1977, now in the Gallery Archives).
- Medium: oil on canvas
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