Provenance
Possibly Abbé Thuelin, Paris. possibly James de Rothschild [1792-1868], Châtea de Boulogne, Paris. possibly Lamorélie, Brittany. possibly Baron de Fourment, Château de Cercamp, near Frévent; possibly (his estate sale, Château de Cercamp, 21-28 April 1892, no. 50, as _Bon Portrait de Femme_ by Largillierre). (Wildenstein & Co., Paris, New York, and London), by 1929; sold December 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1946 to NGA.
[1] Colin Eisler, _Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian_, Oxford, 1977: 296-297, gives the possible early provenance without documenting his sources. The memorandum of agreement between Wildenstein & Co. and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for the sale of ten paintings, including _Portrait of Sylvia_ by Jean Antoine Watteau, is dated 28 December 1944 (copy in NGA curatorial files). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1710.
Accession Number
1946.7.17
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 69.2 x 58.7 cm (27 1/4 x 23 1/8 in.) | framed: 96.2 x 86.4 cm (37 7/8 x 34 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Samuel H. Kress Collection