Portrait of a Gentleman
Framed: 32 13/16 x 28 7/8 x 3 1/2 inches (83.34 x 73.34 x 8.89 cm)
Five Years of Collecting, The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO, December 4–11, 1938, no cat.
Marie-Thérèse Trinidad (née Brocheton, 1872–1958), Comtesse de la Béraudière, Paris, as by the École du [School of] Baron Gérard, Portrait d’Homme en habit vert (Portrait of a Man in a Green Outfit), by February 28, 1920–December 11, 1930 [1];
Purchased
from her sale, Important Oil Paintings With Outstanding Examples by
Velazquez, Goya, El Greco, Brueghel, Luttichuys, Bouts, Fabritius, Mierevelt,
Romney, Greuze, Roslin, Saint-Aubin, Deshayes; Fine French Furniture of the
Eighteenth Century Carvings; Sculptures and Other Objects of Art; Including the
Superb Portrait Bust of the Countess de la Béraudière, 4 rue Alfred de Vigny,
Paris, France, American Art Association, Anderson Art Galleries, New York,
December 11, 1930, lot 73, as by Gérard, and erroneously as Portrait of M.
le Comte de B[éraudière], by unknown buyer, 1930;
Marcel Jules Rougeron (1875–1958), New York, by April 24, 1935;
Purchased from Rougeron by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.
NOTES
[1] Although the Comtesse de la Béraudière inherited the collection of her father-in-law, Jacques-Victor (1819–1885), Comte de la Béraudière, this painting does not appear in collection catalogues of her husband’s ancestors. The Comtesse also added to her collection with her own purchases. She had the painting by 1920, when it appeared in her sale, but it failed to find a buyer. See Catalogue des tableaux anciens et modernes. Aquarelles, Dessins, Pastels anciens et modernes, Meubles et tapisseries du XVIIIe siècle et autres; Provenant de la collection de Madame X [de la Béraudière] (Paris: Hôtel Drouot, February 28, 1920), 4, as by École du Baron Gérard, Portrait d’Homme en habit vert.
Despite how the 1930 sales catalogue identifies the sitter, there is no painting by Gérard of Béraudière nor any known portrait of a “comte de B” in the only known Gérard catalogue raisonné: Œuvre du baron François Gérard, 1789–1836: gravures à l’eau forte, 3 vols. (Paris: Vignères, 1852).
Catalogue des tableaux anciens et modernes; Aquarelles, Dessins, Pastels anciens et modernes; Meubles et tapisseries du XVIIIe siècle et autres: Provenant de la collection de Madame X [de la Béraudière] (Paris: Hôtel Drouot, February 28, 1920), 4, as by École du Baron Gérard, Portrait d’Homme en habit vert.
Important Oil Paintings With Outstanding Examples by Velazquez, Goya, El Greco, Brueghel, Luttichuys, Bouts, Fabritius, Mierevelt, Romney, Greuze, Roslin, Saint-Aubin, Deshayes; Fine French Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, Carvings, Sculptures, and Other Objects of Art; Including the Superb Portrait Bust of the Countess de la Béraudière, 4 rue Alfred de Vigny, Paris, France (New York: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, December 11–13, 1930), 61, as by Gérard, and erroneously as Portrait of M. le Comte de B[éraudière.
“Portrait Reflecting Era of its Creation is Masterpiece of Week,” Kansas City Journal-Post 82, no. 14 (October 6, 1935): 2B, (repro.), as by Gérard, Portrait of a Gentleman.
“‘Visit Your Gallery Week’ Designated December 4-11,” Kansas City Journal 85, no. 66 (November 27, 1938): 36, as by Gérard, Portrait of a Gentleman.
“Five Years of Collecting,” News Flashes 5, no. 9 (The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) (December 1, 1938): unpaginated, as by Gérard, Portrait of a Gentleman.
Paul Gardner, “Kansas City: Jubilee and an Acquisition,” Art News 37, no. 10 (December 3, 1938): 19, as by Gérard, Portrait of a Gentleman.
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), 168, as by Gérard, Portrait of a Gentleman.
Winifred Shields, “The Inner-Self of Portrait Subjects Shown on Canvass [sic],” Kansas City Star 77, no. 134 (February 1, 1957): 6, (repro.), as by Gérard, Portrait of a Gentleman.
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), 260, as by Gérard, Portrait of a Gentleman.
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), 258, as by Gérard, Portrait of a Gentleman.
Susan Wise, ed., European Portraits 1600–1900: In the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), 68, as Portrait of a Gentleman.
Kathryn Calley Galitz, “Attributed to Joseph Karl Stieler, Portrait of a Gentleman, ca. 1815,” 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/10.37764/78973.5.419.5407.
