A Masquerade
Vanity Fair: An Exhibition of Styles in Women's Headdress and Adornment through the Ages, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June 16-July 16, 1942, no. 10.
Old Master Drawings from the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, October 23-December 19, 1955.
Spiva Art Museum, Joplin, MO, October 1961.
Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890), London, by 1890 [1];
Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (1856-1948), as by an anonymous Venetian artist, by March 1933 [2];
With Asscher and Welker, London, on joint account with Robert Langton Douglas (1864-1951), London, stock no. 369, as by Pietro Longhi and later as by G. B. Tiepolo, November 25, 1935-1937 [3];
Purchased from Douglas, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1937.
NOTES:
[1] According to a notation in Robert Langton Douglas’s stockbook, Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Paintings Department, p. 138.
[2] Listed as in the Cavendish-Bentinck collection in J. Byam Shaw, “Some Venetian Draughtsmen of the Eighteenth Century,” Old Master Drawings 7 (March 1933): 62, pl. 70.
[3] This is one of a group of seven drawings for which Douglas purchased a half share from Asscher and Welker for £287, 10 shillings on November 25, 1936. According to Douglas’s stockbook, Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Paintings Department, p. 136, Douglas bought Asscher and Welker’s share of three of the drawings, including this one, for £70, possibly on January 14, 1936.
J. Byam Shaw, “Some Venetian Draughtsmen of the Eighteenth Century,” Old Master Drawings 7 (March 1933): 62, pl. 70.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2 nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 100, (repro.).
Gay Drake Davisson, Jermayne MacAgy, and Louis Pappas, Vanity Fair: An Exhibition of Styles in Women's Headdress and Adornment through the Ages, exh. cat. (San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1942), 13.
