Family Portrait in a Landscape
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Drei Jahrhunderte vlamische Kunst, 1400-1700, Wiener Secession, Vienna, January 11-February 23, 1930, no. 115.
Gonzales Coques developed a portrait style that combined the intimacy of a small-scale painting with the grandeur of court portraiture. Here, this family displays their wealth by posing in a garden setting decorated with ornamental features taken from the artist’s repertoire of stock accessories. The black groom leading a horse does not necessarily represent an actual person, but would have been perceived at the time as a status symbol. Artists regularly inserted African youths into portraits even when their sitters did not retain black servants in their households.
Possibly Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-1794), by 1794 [1];
Possibly by descent to his son, John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden (1759-1840), Kent, England, 1794-1840;
Purchased at his posthumous sale, The Genuine and Valuable Collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch Pictures Collected nearly a Century ago, and bequeathed to the late Marquess Camden, K.G., Christie and Manson, London, June 12, 1841, lot 63, by Henry Thomas Hope (1807-1862), 1841-at least 1854;
Lord Ashburton;
Stephan von Auspitz (1869-1945), Vienna, by January 11, 1930-1931;
Purchased from von Auspitz by Bachstitz Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands and New York, stock no. V/226, 1931-1932 [2];
Purchased from Bachstitz Gallery, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
NOTES:
[1] The artworks sold in John Jeffreys Pratt’s posthumous sale in 1841 were described as “bequeathed to the late Marquess Camden.” It’s possible he inherited them from his father.
[2] Record of object in Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, New York, Bachstitz Gallery Records, box 19, folder 7, copy in NAMA curatorial file.
Catalogue of the genuine & valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures: collected nearly a century ago, and bequeathed to the late Marquess Camden, K.G., &c (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, June 12, 1841), 10.
John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 9 (London: Smith, 1852), no. 11, p. 586.
Drei Jahrhunderte vlämische Kunst, 1400-1700; CX. Ausstellung der Vereinigung bildender Kunstler Wiener Secession, exh. cat. (Vienna: A. Holzhausens Nfg., 1930), 45, (repro.).
“Kansas City Adds Important Works to Its Holdings,” The Art News (April 23, 1932): 8.
The Art News 30 (May 7, 1932): 10, (repro.).
“American Art Notes: Acquisitions for the Kansas City Museum,” The Connoisseur 139, no. 370 (June 1932): 428-29, (repro.).
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 136.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 57, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 96, (repro.).
Francine-Claire Legrand, Les Peintres Flamands de genre au XVIIe siècle (Bruxelles: Meddens, 1963), 95-101.
Mario Praz, Conversation Pieces: A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America (University Park & London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971), 113-14, (repro.).
Michael Jaffé, “The Flemish and Dutch Schools,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 507, (repro.) [repr. in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (London: Apollo Magazine, 1972), 39, (repro.)].
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 124, (repro.).
Erik Larsen, Seventeenth Century Flemish Painting (Freren, Germany: Luca, 1985), 245, 247, 250-51, 311, 314-20, (repro.).
Guy C. Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1992), 286-88, (repro.).
Juana Gutiérrez Haces, Painting of the Kingdoms, Shared Identities: Territories of the Spanish Monarchy, 16th-18th Centuries, vol. 2 (México: Fomento Cultural Banamex, 2008-2009), 1442-44, (repro.).
