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This painting depicts a young woman lost in reverie after reading the letters of the ill-fated medieval lovers Heloise and Abelard. The objects on the table beside her—a letter, a sheet of music, and a book of erotic poetry—hint at a life of leisure and a susceptibility to love. In this early picture, Auguste Bernard drew upon history paintings by Peter Paul Rubens and Charles Le Brun, as well as Parisian traditions of genre painting and portraiture pioneered by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Bernard worked in Paris in the early 1780s and studied in Italy for several years. Upon his return to Paris, he found his career frustrated by the French Revolution and the emergent fashion for the more austere Neoclassical style.
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| Medium | oil paint (paint) |
| Dimensions | 64 × 81 Cm |
| Tags | womanbookdressesFrenchinteriorleisureletters (correspondence)lovemusicpearlspoetry |
| Certificate | Certificate not provided |
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Chain of custody, exhibitions, and verification milestones synced from the provenance service.
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Jackall, Yuriko et. al., America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting, Exh. cat.
Jackall, Yuriko et. al., America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting, Exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art/Lund Humphries), 198, 199, 213, 261, pl. 41
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Louis Gabriel Marquis de Véri-Raionard (died 1785)
Louis Gabriel Marquis de Véri-Raionard (died 1785)
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sold to Devouge for 371 livres [acc....
sold to Devouge for 371 livres [acc. to annotated copies of the catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, and Getty Research Institute]. David David-Weill, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris
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Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting, May 21 – August 20, 2017.
Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting, May 21 – August 20, 2017.
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Paris, Musée Luxembourg, Fragonard amoureux (Fragonard in Love), September 16, 2015-January 24, 2016, cat. 60.
Paris, Musée Luxembourg, Fragonard amoureux (Fragonard in Love), September 16, 2015-January 24, 2016, cat. 60.
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R[ichard] R[and] in Philip Conisbee et al., The Collections of the National Gallery of Art, French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century, Washington, D.C., 2009, p. 163, fig. 5.
R[ichard] R[and] in Philip Conisbee et al., The Collections of the National Gallery of Art, French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century, Washington, D.C., 2009, p. 163, fig. 5.
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Christian Michel, "Nature and Moeurs: Thoughts on the Reception of Genre Painting in France" in French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century, Philip Conisbee, ed., Studies in the History of Art 72, Symposium Papers 49
Christian Michel, "Nature and Moeurs: Thoughts on the Reception of Genre Painting in France" in French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century, Philip Conisbee, ed., Studies in the History of Art 72, Symposium Papers 49 (Washington, D.C., 2007), p. 279, fig. 4.
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see his letter to Martha Wolff, dated October 26, 2004, in curatorial file]
see his letter to Martha Wolff, dated October 26, 2004, in curatorial file]
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Mary D. Sheriff, Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth Century France
Mary D. Sheriff, Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth Century France (University of Chicago Press, 2004), pp. 11-12, 202–40, 276-80, fig. 51.
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Colin B. Bailey, Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris
Colin B. Bailey, Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris (Yale University Press, 2002), p. 129, color ill. 115, p. 279 (n. 119).
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Pierre Rosenberg and Colin B. Bailey, “Not Greuze, but Bernard d’Agesci,” Burlington Magazine 143
Pierre Rosenberg and Colin B. Bailey, “Not Greuze, but Bernard d’Agesci,” Burlington Magazine 143 (2001), pp. 204–11, figs, 8, 9.
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Mary Sherriff, “À rebours. Le problème de l’histoire dans l’interprétation fémininste,” in Régis Michel, Où en est l’interprétation de l’œuvre d’art?
Mary Sherriff, “À rebours. Le problème de l’histoire dans l’interprétation fémininste,” in Régis Michel, Où en est l’interprétation de l’œuvre d’art? (Paris: École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2000), pp. 205-33, fig. 1.
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sold Parke-Bernet, New York, April 22, 1948, lot 16 (ill....
sold Parke-Bernet, New York, April 22, 1948, lot 16 (ill.), as Jean Baptiste Greuze, L’Amoureux Desir
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sold or consigned to Wildenstein, Paris, 1919
sold or consigned to Wildenstein, Paris, 1919
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Virginia E. Swain, "Hidden from View: French Women Authors and the Language of Rights, 1727-1792” in Intimate Encounters, Love and Domesticity in 18th-Century France, exh. cat., Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire,...
Virginia E. Swain, "Hidden from View: French Women Authors and the Language of Rights, 1727-1792” in Intimate Encounters, Love and Domesticity in 18th-Century France, exh. cat., Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, pp. 26-27, 35, ill. p. 20.
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Bernadette Fort, “Accessories and Desire: On Indecency in a Few Paintings by Jean Baptiste Greuze,” Yale French Studies 94
Bernadette Fort, “Accessories and Desire: On Indecency in a Few Paintings by Jean Baptiste Greuze,” Yale French Studies 94 (1998), pp. 149, 150 (fig. 1).
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Katie Scott, “Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-century France,” Burlington Magazine 140
Katie Scott, “Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-century France,” Burlington Magazine 140 (1998), p. 334.
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exhibition
Hanover, New Hampshire, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century France, October 4, 1997-January 4, 1998, cat. 29, as Jean Baptiste Greuze; Toledo Museum of Art, February 15–May 10...
Hanover, New Hampshire, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century France, October 4, 1997-January 4, 1998, cat. 29, as Jean Baptiste Greuze; Toledo Museum of Art, February 15–May 10, 1998; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 31 – August 23, 1998 (Toledo and Houston only).
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M[artha] W[olff] in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago
M[artha] W[olff] in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 70-74, 71 (color ill.).
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Martha Wolff, “An Early Painting by Greuze and its Literary Associations,” Burlington Magazine 138
Martha Wolff, “An Early Painting by Greuze and its Literary Associations,” Burlington Magazine 138 (1996), pp. 580–85, fig. 5.
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Art Institute of Chicago, A Passion for Virtue: An Eighteenth-Century Masterpiece by Greuze, 1995, no cat., as Jean Baptiste Greuze.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Passion for Virtue: An Eighteenth-Century Masterpiece by Greuze, 1995, no cat., as Jean Baptiste Greuze.
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by descent to his wife, Mignon Kobler (died 1942) [acc....
by descent to his wife, Mignon Kobler (died 1942) [acc. to Martha Wolff’s telephone conversation with John Kobler, Albert’s son, May 30, 1995, and Chrisopher Apostle, Sotheby's who confirmed that the picture was consigned to Parke-Bernet by the Kobler estate
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Nicholas de Koenigsberg, New York and Argentina [acc....
Nicholas de Koenigsberg, New York and Argentina [acc. to Parke-Bernet Galleries’ archive card]. Simon Dickinson Inc., New York, by 1994
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sold to the Art Institute, 1994.
sold to the Art Institute, 1994.
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sold by Wildenstein, 1924 [acc....
sold by Wildenstein, 1924 [acc. to Joseph Baillio’s letter to Martha Wolff, dated September 23, 1994, in curatorial file]. Albert John Kobler (died 1937), New York
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M.-C. Pahin de la Blancherie, Nouvelles de la République des letters et des arts (January 26, 1785), nos. 24–25: “M. Bernard...
M.-C. Pahin de la Blancherie, Nouvelles de la République des letters et des arts (January 26, 1785), nos. 24–25: “M. Bernard, actuallment à Rome. Deux tableau: Une femme tient une colombe sur son sein; Une femme qui tient un livre et dans l’expression d’un sentiment tendre…; Du cabinet de M. L’Abbé de Véri” [quoted after Rosenberg and Bailey 2001, p. 207]
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M.-C. Pahin de la Blancherie, Nouvelles de la République des letters et des arts
M.-C. Pahin de la Blancherie, Nouvelles de la République des letters et des arts (January 26, 1785), no. 25.
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his estate sale, Paris, December 12, 1785, lot 74
his estate sale, Paris, December 12, 1785, lot 74
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