Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), Château de Malmaison, as by Carle Maratte [sic], by 1811-1814;
By descent to her son, Eugène de Beauharnais, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg (1781-1824), Munich, 1814-1824;
By descent to his son, Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1810-1835), Munich, 1824-1835;
Inherited by his brother, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817-1852), Munich and St. Petersburg, 1835-1852;
Inherited by his wife, Grande-Duchesse Maria Nikolaevna (1819-1876), St. Petersburg and Florence, 1852-1876;
By descent to her son, Nikolai de Beauharnais, 4th Duke of Leuchtenberg (1843-1891), St. Petersburg, 1876-1891;
By descent to his son, Nikolai de Beauharnais (1868-1928), St. Petersburg, 1891;
With A.-B. Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm, by 1917;
Private collection, by December 14, 1979 [1];
Purchased at Fine Old Master Pictures, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, December 14, 1979, lot 88, as by Carlo Maratti, by Robert L. and Barbara Bloch, Mission Hills, Kansas, 1979-1980;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1980.
NOTES:
[1] Offered for sale at Fine Old Master Pictures, Christie's, London, July 13, 1979, lot 103, as by Carlo Maratti, but failed to sell.
Catalogue des tableaux de Sa Majesté l'Impératrice Joséphine, dans la Galerie et Appartements de son Palais de Malmaison (Paris: L’imprimerie de Didot Jeune, 1811), 10, as by Carlo Maratti.
Verzeichniss der Bildergallerie seiner Königlichen Hoheit des Prinzen Eugen, Herzogs von Leuchtenberg in München (Munich: Muxel, 1834), 65, as by Carlo Maratti.
J.N. Muxel, ed., Gemälde Sammlung in München seiner Königl. Hoheit des Dom Augusto, Herzogs von Leuchtenberg und Santa Cruz Fürsten von Eichtädt (Munich: Finsterlin, [1841]), 69, (repro.), as by Carlo Maratti.
Verzeichniss der Bildergallerie seiner Königlichen Hoheit des Prinzen Eugen, Herzogs von Leuchtenberg (Munich, [1843]), 24, as by Carlo Maratti.
J.D. Passavant, ed., Gemälde-Sammlung Seiner Kaiserl. Hoheit des Herzogs von Leuchtenberg in München, 2nd ed. (Frankfurt am Main: Joseph Baer, 1851), 10, (repro.), as by Carlo Maratti.
Gustave Friedrich Waagen, Die Gemäldesammlung in der Kaiserlichen Eremitage zu St. Petersburg, nebst Bemerkungen über andere dortige Kunstsammlungen (Munich: Friedrich Bruckmann, 1864), 372, as by Carlo Maratti.
M. de Lescure, Le Château de La Malmaison: Catalogue des Objets Exposés sous les Auspices de sa Majesté l’Impératrice (Paris: Henri Plon, 1867), 274, as by Carlo Maratti.
Gustave Friedrich Waagen, Die Gemäldesammlung in der Kaiserlichen Eremitage zu St. Petersburg, nebst Bemerkungen über andere dortige Kunstsammlungen, 2nd ed. (St. Petersburg: H Schmitzdorff, 1870), 372, as by Carlo Maratti.
Renaud de Liphart-Rathshoff, Leuchtenbergska Tavel-samlingen (Stockholm: Bröderna Lagerström Boktryckare, 1917), 36, (repro.), as by Carlo Maratti.
Serge Grandjean, Inventaire après décès de l’Impératrice Joséphine à Malmaison (Paris: Nogent-le-Rotrou, 1964), 146, as by Carlo Maratti.
Fine Old Master Pictures: The Properties of an American Corporation, Mrs. Siegfried Bratt, of Zurich, the late Ralph Edwards, Viscount Mountgarret, the late D. R. Russell, the late Dr. E. I. Shapiro, the late Mrs. O. M. Stapleton-Cotton, the late Jani Strasser, the late Mrs. R. G. Warren, and from various sources (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, July 13, 1979), 21, (repro.), as by Carlo Maratti.
Fine Old Master Pictures: The Properties of the late Miss Viola Martin, the late N. D. Newall and the late Mrs. L. Newall, the late Dr. E. I. Shapiro, the Trustees of the Shotesham Estates Settlement, and from various sources (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, December 14, 1979), 19, as by Carlo Maratti.
Written attestations from Francis H. Dowley, Bernhard Kerber, Stella Rudolph, Ellis Waterhouse, and Federico Zeri to Robert L. Bloch, March-May 1980, NAMA curatorial files, as by Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari.
David H Steel, Jr., Baroque Paintings from the Bob Jones University Collection, exh. cat. (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1984), 46.
Eliot W. Rowlands, The Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Italian Paintings 1300-1800, (Kansas, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 326, 329-334, (repro.), as by Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari.
