Village Fair
Mat: 21 1/4 × 16 inches (53.98 × 40.64 cm)
NAMA's Print Exhibition No. 5: 17th- and 18th-century European Prints, Missouri State Council on the Arts [traveling exhibition], January-July 1974, no cat.
Art in the Age of Revolution, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, July 14-October 1, 1989, no cat.
Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 22-May 31, 1998, no cat.
Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 23-July 25, 1993, no cat.
Looking at Historic Lands, Urban and Rural, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 26, 2006-April 1, 2007, no cat., as Village Fair (Foire de Village).
Looking at Historic Lands, Urban and Rural, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-June 10, 2012, no cat., as Village Fair (Foire de Village).
Comte Pierre de Corneillan, by December 11, 1865 [1];
His sale, Cabinet du Comte P. de Corneillan, Gentilhomme ordinaire de S.A.R. Mgr le comte d’Artois et Chambellan de S.M. le roi de Prusse: Estampes par les meillurs maitres [sic] des diverses écoles; Portraits; École française, XVIIIe siècle, Jean-Eugène Vignières, Paris, December 11-13, 1865, no. 642, as Foire de village, d’après Taunay;
Cortlandt Field Bishop (1870-1935), New York and Lenox, MA, by March 30, 1935 [2];
His posthumous sale, Engravings and etchings: Schongauer, Durer, Rembrandt, Nanteuil, Green, Meryon, Whistler, Pennell, Zorn, Bone, Cameron, McBey, and other famous artists; property of the estate of the late Cortlandt Field Bishop, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, November 19-20, 1935, no. 77;
With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by December 30, 1935;
Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins, Kansas City, MO, 1935.
NOTES:
[1] Lugt 458
[2] Lugt 2770b
Catalogue du Cabinet du Comte P. de Corneillan, Gentilhomme ordinaire de S.A.R. Mgr le comte d’Artois et Chambellan de S.M. le roi de Prusse: Estampes par les meillurs maitres [sic] des diverses écoles; Portraits; École française, XVIIIe siècle (Paris: 1865), 50, as Foire de village, d’après Taunay.
Roger Portalis and Henri Béraldi, Les graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, vol. 1, pt. 1 (Paris: Damascène Morgand et Charles Fatout, 1880), no. 1, p. 746, as Foire de village, d’après Taunay.
Inventaire du fonds français: graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, vol. 7, Deny (Melle Jeanne)-Du Puy-Delage (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1951), no. 10, p. 64, as Foire de—Village.
Victor I. Carlson and John W. Ittmann, Regency to Empire French printmaking, 1715-1814, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984), 272-73, (repro.).
Pierrette Jean-Richard, Graveurs français de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle: XIIIe exposition de la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, exh. cat. (Paris: Éditions de la réunion des musées nationaux, 1985).
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 130-34, 289, (repro.), as Village Fair (Foire de Village), after Nicolas-Antoine Taunay.
