A Lady Attaching a Bow to a Gentleman's Sword
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Genre, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April
5–May 15, 1983,
no. 16A, as by Jean-François De Troy, Scenes
Gallantes: A Lady Attaching a Bow to a Gentleman’s Sword.
Possible sale, Versailles, ca. 1980 [1];
With Etablissement pour la diffusion et la connaissance
des œuvres d’art (“D.C.”), Vaduz, Liechtenstein, by August 18–September 14, 1982;
Purchased from the latter, 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. 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 Attaching a Bow to a Gentleman’s Sword.
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), 2, 12, (repro.), as by Jean François Detroy [sic], Scenes Gallantes: A Lady Attaching a Bow to a Gentleman’s Sword.
“Principales acquisitions des musées en 1983,” La Chronique des Arts: supplément à la Gazette des Beaux-Arts 103, no. 1382 (March 1984): S27, (repro.), as by J.-F. de Troy, Jeune femme attachant un ruban à l’épée d’un jeune homme.
Peter Thornton, Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior 1620–1920 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984), 108–09, (repro.), as by Jean-François de Troy, Fixing the bow, France.
Peter Thornton, “Regards d’époque,” Connaissance des Arts, no. 405 (November 1985): 78, (repro.), as by J.-F. de Troye [sic], Le nœud.
GBL: 1986 Annual Report (Brussels: Groupe Bruxelles Lambert s.a., 1986), 8, (repro.), as by Jean-François de Troy, Scène galante.
Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 124, as by Jean-François de Troy, A lady attaching a bow to a gentleman’s sword.
Elise Goodman-Soellner, “Boucher’s Madame de Pompadour at Her Toilette,” Simiolus 17, no. 1 (1987): 55n70, as by Jean-François de Troy, A lady attaching a bow to a gentleman’s sword.
Jean-Luc Bordeaux, “Jean-François de Troy. Still an Enigma: Some Observations on His Early Works,” Artibus et Historiae 10, no. 20 (1989): 169n28.
Jacques Anquetil, La Soie en Occident (Paris: Flammarion, 1995), 98–99, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, Une dame attachant un nœud à l’épée d’un gentilhomme.
Katharina Krause, “Genrebilder: Mode und Gesellschaft der Aristokraten bei Jean-François de Troy,” Festschrift für Johannes Langner zum 65. Geburtstag am 1. Februar 1997, ed. Klaus Gereon Beuckers and Annemarie Jaeggi (Munich: Lit, 1997), 146–148, 156n41, 160, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, Une dame attachant un nœud à l’épée d’un cavalier.
Richard Rand, Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century France, exh. cat. (Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1997), 108n2.
Christophe Leribault, Jean-François de Troy (1679–1752) (Paris: Arthena, 2002), no. P. 222 b, p. 335, (repro.), as Dame attachant un nœud à l’épée d’un cavalier.
Colin B. Bailey, Philip Conisbee, and Thomas W Gaehtgens, The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, ed. Colin Bailey, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 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 attachant un nœud à l’épée d’un cavalier.
Alden Cavanaugh, ed., Performing the “Everyday”: The Culture of Genre in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat. (Newark, NJ: University of Delaware, 2007), 31, 35, 40, 43n16, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, Lady Attaching a Bow to a Gentleman’s Sword.
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 Attaching a Bow to a Gentleman’s Sword.
Charissa Bremer-David, ed., Paris: Life and Luxury in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011), 25, as by Jean François de Troy, A Lady Fastening a Ribbon on a Sword.
Een leven in Mode: Vrouwenkleding 1750–1950, Uit de collective Jacoba de Jonge/ Living Fashion: Women’s Daily Wear, 1750–1950, From the Jacoba de Jonge Collection, exh. cat. (Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo, 2012), 60, 62, (repro.), as by Jean François de Troy, The Ribbon.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, The Painter’s Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), 66, (repro.), as after Jean François de Troy, Lady Attaching a Bow to a Gentleman’s Sword.
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.
