Three Putti in the Clouds
Framed: 19 3/16 × 22 1/8 × 1 1/2 inches (48.74 × 56.21 × 3.81 cm)
A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1987, no. 102, as Three Putti in Clouds.
Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as Three Putti in Clouds.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 43, as Three Putti in Clouds.
The Human Body, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 30, 2010-June 5, 2011, unnumbered, as Three Putti in the Clouds.
François Renaud (18th century–early 19th century), Paris;
Jan Baptist de Graaf (1742–1804), Amsterdam, by 1804;
Purchased from Fine old master drawings including Rembrandt van Rijn The Mocking of Christ, The Master of the Egmont Album The Triumph of Faith, Giovanni Battista Gaulli called Baciccio The Immaculate Conception, Jacopo Robusti called il Tintoretto a Study after the head of Giuliano da Medici by Michelangelo, Pietro da Cortona A Study for the Barberini Allegory, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri called il Guercino A Study for The Madonna and Child with the Patron Saints of Modena, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri called il Guercino A Study of an Old Bearded Man, Studio of Guercino A group of Landscapes and Figure Studies, Ottavio Mario Leoni The Portrait of a Gentleman, Jan van der Straet called Stradanus The Prophet Zacharias, Peter Paul Rubens The Triumph of Mordecai, after the etching by Lucas van Leyden, Attributed to Anthony van Dyck St. Jerome in the Desert, Willem van de Velde the Younger A View of a Dutch Ship, Anthonie Waterloo Trees on a Hillside, Francois Boucher Three Putti in Clouds, Francois Boucher Putti round a shield and crown, Claude Vernet Gentlemen and Jockeys on a Racecourse, Rosalba Carriera Flora, Jean-Etienne Liotard a Portrait of George III, Sotheby and Company, London, December 10, 1968, lot 75, as Three Putti in Clouds, by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London, 1968–July 14, 1969 [1];
Purchased from Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., by a private collector, July 14, 1969–June 17, 1983 [2];
Purchased from a private collector by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London, June 17, 1983–July 6, 1983;
Purchased from Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1983.
Notes:
[1] See email from Marco Keiller, Library and Archive Assistant (Graduate Trainee), National Gallery of Art Research Centre, London, to Glynnis Stevenson, NAMA, March 8, 2022.
[2] Ibid. Due to data protection regulations, the National Gallery of Art Research Centre was not able to disclose the buyers in 1969 and 1983, but could confirm Thomas Agnew’s ownership dates.
Catalogue of Fine Old Master Drawings, Including…François Boucher, Three Putti in Clouds (London: Sotheby and Company, December 10, 1968), 55, (repro.), as Three Putti in Clouds.
Alexandre Ananoff and Daniel Wildenstein, François Boucher: Catalogue des peintures, vol. 2 (Lausanne, Switzerland: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1976), no. 518/2, pp. 189-90, (repro.).
“Boucher Drawing Is Acquired,” Calendar of Events (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) (Summer 1983): unpaginated, (repro.), as Three Putti in Clouds.
Roger Ward, “A drawing for Boucher’s ‘Jupiter and Callisto’ at Kansas City,” The Burlington Magazine 125, no. 969 (December 1983): 753, (repro.), as Three putti in clouds.
J. Patrice Marandel et al., François Boucher (1703-1770), exh. cat. (Paris: Éditions de la Réunion de musées nationaux, 1986), 286-87, (repro.), as Trois amours dans les airs.
Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 230-31, (repro.), as Three Putti in Clouds.
Patricia Corbett, “Connoisseur’s World: Power Lines,” Connoisseur 219, no. 934 (November 1989): 44, (repro.), as Three Putti in Clouds.
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO; Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 11, 42, (repro.), as Three Putti in Clouds.
Colin B. Bailey, The Loves of the Gods: Mythological Painting from Watteau to David, exh. cat. (Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, 1992), 418, 419n16, (repro.), as Study of Three Putti in the Clouds.
Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 11, 144-46, (repro.), as Three Putti in Clouds.
