A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to Her Suitor
Genre, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April
5–May 15, 1983,
no. 16B, as by Jean François De Troy, Scenes Gallantes: A Lady Showing a
Bracelet Miniature to her Suitor.
A Bountiful Decade:
Selected Acquisitions 1977–1987, The
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 14–December 6, 1987, no. 52, as by Jean François de Troy,
A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to her Suitor.
Possible sale, Versailles, ca. 1980 [1];
With Etablissement pour la diffusion et la connaissance des œuvres d’art (“D.C.”), Vaduz, Liechenstein, by August 18–September 14, 1982;
Purchased from Etablissement “D.C.”, through David Carritt Limited, London, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1982.
NOTES:
[1] Former Nelson-Atkins curator Roger Ward noted in a letter to Jessica Falvo, student at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, November 27, 1995, that the painting might have been auctioned at a Versailles sale in 1980. See letter in NAMA curatorial file. Extensive research has not produced any record of the paintings before 1982.
Roger Ward, “New at the Nelson: Two Detroy [sic] Paintings Added to Collection,” Calendar of Events (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) (April 1983): 2, (repro.), as by Jean François Detroy [sic], A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to her Suitor.
Donald Hoffmann, “Art journal: This preservation exhibit is better late,” Kansas City Star 103, no. 292 (August 28, 1983): 8E.
Ross E. Taggart and Laurence Sickman, Genre, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 12, as by Jean François Detroy [sic], Scenes Gallantes: A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to her Suitor.
New Criterion 3 (1984): 86, as by Jean François De Troy, as A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to her Suitor.
“Principales acquisitions des musées en 1983,” La Chronique des Arts: supplément à la Gazette des Beaux-Arts 103, no. 1382 (March 1984): S27, as by J.F. de Troy, Jeune femme montrant un bracelet miniature à son suivant.
Peter Thornton, Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior 1620–1920 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984), 108–09, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, At the dressing-table, France.
Elise Goodman-Soellner, “Boucher’s Madame de Pompadour at Her Toilette,” Simiolus 17, no. 1 (1987): 55–57, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, A young woman showing a bracelet miniature to her suitor.
Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 124–25, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to her Suitor.
Jean-Luc Bordeaux, “Jean François de Troy: Still an Enigma; Some Observations on His Early Works,” Artibus et Historiae 10, no. 20 (1989): 169n28, as by Jean François de Troy, The Bracelet.
Alison J. Carter, Underwear: The Fashion History (London: B. T. Batsford, 1992), 27, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, At the Dressing Table.
Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, Classic Fabrics (London: Collins and Brown, 1996), 21, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy.
Patricia Wardle and I. C. Grunnill, “Een toilet kleed met kant: Kanttekeningen bij de textilia voor de toilettafel in de late zeventiende en achttiende eeuw,” Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 44, no. 1 (1996): 28, 35n10, as by Jean François de Troy.
Klaus G. Beuckers and Annemarie Jaeggi, eds., Festschrift für Johannes Langner zum 65. Geburtstag am 1. Februar 1997 (Munich: Lit, 1997), 146–48, 156n41, 160–61, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, Une dame qui donne don portrait à un jeune homme.
Richard Rand, Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century France, exh. cat. (Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1997), 108n2, as by Jean François de Troy.
Jan Walgrave, Het Labo van de Verleiding: Geschiedenis van de Make-up / The Laboratory of Seduction: History of Make-Up, exh. cat. (Antwerp: Koningin Fabiolazaal, 1998), 158, 179, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, Dame en haar bezoeker.
Important mobilier, important orfèvrerie (Monte-Carlo, Monaco: Sotheby’s, December 11, 1999), 28–29, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, Femme à sa toilette.
Melissa Hyde, “The ‘Makeup’ of the Marquise: Boucher’s Portrait of Pompadour at Her Toilette,” Art Bulletin 82, no. 3 (September 2000): 466, 470, (repro.), as by François de Troy, A Lady Showing a Miniature Bracelet to Her Suitor.
Valerie Steele, The Corset: A Cultural History (New Haven: Yale University, 2001), 18–19, (repro.), as by Jean François Detroy [sic], A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to Her Suitor.
Monique Crick, “Regard sur la céramique chinoise dans quelques peintures françaises des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles,” Cahiers de la Compagnie des Indes, no. 7/8 (2002–2003): 40, 42, (repro.), as A la table de toilette.
Christophe Léribault, Jean-François de Troy (1679–1752) (Paris: Arthena, 2002), no. P. 221 b, p. 334, (repro.), as Dame à sa toilette recevant un cavalier.
Colin B. Bailey, Philip Conisbee, and Thomas W. Gaehtgens, The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University, 2003), 39n243.
Denise Amy Baxter, “Fashions of Sociability in Jean François de Troy’s Tableaux de Mode, 1725–1738” (PhD diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003), 267–68, as by Jean François de Troy, Dame à sa toilette recevant un cavalier.
Watteau et la fête galante, exh. cat. (Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2004), 35, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, Dame à sa toilette recevant un cavalier.
Yves Carlier, “Details of the Toilet Service of the Duchesse de Cadaval,” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 78, no. 1/2 (2004): 5, 7, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to Her Suitor.
Melissa Hyde, Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2006), 120–21, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to Her Suitor.
Alden Cavanaugh, ed., Performing the “Everyday”: The Culture of Genre in The Eighteenth Century (Newark: University of Delaware, 2007), 28, 31, 34, 40, 43n16, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, Lady at Her Toilette Receiving a Gentleman.
Kristel Smentek, Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelains and the Allure of the East, exh. cat. (New York: Frick Collection, 2007), 33n21, as by Jean François de Troy, At the Toilette.
Denise Amy Baxter, “Parvenu or honnête homme: The Collecting Practices of Germain-Louis de Chauvelin,” Journal of the History of Collections 20, no. 2 (2008): 280, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, Lady at Her Toilette Receiving a Gentleman.
Monika Kopplin, European Lacquer: Selected Works from the Museum Für Lackkunst Münster (Munich: Hirmer, 2010), 110, 113, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, Dame à sa toilette reçevant un cavalier.
Charissa Bremer-David, ed., Paris: Life and Luxury in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), 56–59, 68, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, A Lady Showing a Bracelet to her Suitor.
Paula Phipps, Mirrors Reflections of Style (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2012), 20, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to Her Suitor.
Paula Radisich, Pastiche, Fashion, and Galanterie in Chardin’s Genre Subjects: Looking Smart (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2013), 92, (repro.), as attributed to Jean François de Troy, A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to Her Suitor.
Paul Micio, Les Collections de Monsieur frère de Louis XIV: Orfèvrerie et objets d’art des Orléans sous l’Ancien Régime (Paris: Somogy éditions d’art, 2014), 252–53, (repro.), as Dame à sa toilette recevant un cavalier.
Être et paraître: La vie aristocratique au XVIIIe siècle; Trésors caches du musée national de la Renaissance, exh. cat. (Paris: ArtLys, 2015), 22, 25, (repro.), as La Table de toilette.
Martine Gauvard, Gérard Picaud, and Jean Foisselon, Fils de lin, lumière de l’autre: modes et dentelles à la Visitation (Paris: Somogy Editions d’Art, 2017), 146, (repro.), as by Follower of Jean François de Troy, Une femme montrant son bracelet à son prétendant.
The Exceptional Sale: Le regard d’Elie Top (Paris: Christie’s, November 27, 2019), 59, as attributed to Jean François de Troy, Dame à sa toilette recevant un cavalier.
Margherita Rosina and Enrica Morini, Moda del Settecento a Palazzo Morando: La donazione di Amichæ, exh. cat. (Milan: Cinisello Balsamo, 2020), 74–75, (repro.), as a copy by (?) Jean François de Troy, Dama che mostra una miniatura del braccialetto al suo corteggiatore.
Janet Arnold et al., Patterns of Fashion 6: The Content, Cut, Construction, and Context of European Women’s Dress c.1695–1795, ed. Jenny Tiramani (London: School of Historical Dress, 2021), 26, (repro.), as after J.-F. de Troy, A Lady and Her Suitor.
Christophe Huchet de Quénetain, Nicolas Besnier (1685/86–1754): architecte, orfèvre du roi et échevin de la ville de Paris (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2023).
Sarah Kilby and Clare Murphy, eds., Crown to Couture: The Magazine; Fashion, Style, and Celebrity from the Georgian Court and the Red Carpet (London: Historic Royal Palaces, 2023), 72, (repro.).
Maroma Camilleri and Maverick Spiteri, eds., Power, Costume, and Scenography: Making Fashion a Statement in 18th and 19th Century Malta; Proceedings of the Public Lectures Series 2019–2020 held at the National Library of Malta, Valletta (Valletta: Malta Libraries, forthcoming 2024), 17–18, 20, (repro.), as by Unknown artist, after Jean François de Troy, A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to Her Suitor.
Annaëlle Raybois, Paraître. Beauté(s) en Representation XVIIIème/XXIème siècles, exh. cat. (Lunéville, France: Château de Lunéville, 2024).
Nicole R. Myers, “After Jean François de Troy, A Lady Attaching a Bow to a Gentleman’s Sword, and A Lady Showing a Bracelet Miniature to Her Suitor, 1764 (?),” catalogue entry in French Paintings and Pastels, 1600–1945: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/78973.5.312.5407.
