Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
PARIS 1715 - 1783 AMSTERDAM
MADAME JACQUES NICOLAS LE BOUCHER D'AILLY
M. de Boiville, Abbeville;
with Gimpel & Wildenstein, Paris, by whom sold in 1903 to Ernest Cronier; Ernest Cronier (1840-1905),
his estate sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6-8 December 1905, lot 39,
where purchased by Duveen Brothers;
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye,
his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6-8 December 1920, lot 133;
Goldast collection,
his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 8-9 February 1939, lot 52;
Susana Garrahan, until 1969,
when acquired by the present owner
London, Wildenstein, La Douceur de vivre: Art, Style and Decoration in XVIIIe Century France, 1983, p. 61, no number, reproduced p. 31
A. Alexandre, 'La Collection E. Cronier,' Les Arts, no. 47, November 1905, p. 14;
L. Vaillat and P. Ratouis de Limay, J.B. Perronneau (1715-1783), sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris 1909, p. 138, no. 39;
Idem., J. B. Perronneau (1715-1783), sa vie et son oeuvre (2nd, revised ed.), Paris 1923, pp. 107, 150, 193, 207 & 226;
R. Gimpel, Journal d'un collectionneur, marchand de tableaux, Paris 1963, p. 310 (entry of November 21, 1925, recording the sale by his father, Ernest Gimpel, of the pastel of Ernest Cronier on 5 June 1903) (English ed., as Diary of an Art Dealer (trans. by J. Rosenberg), New York 1966, p. 307);
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London 2006, p. 405, reproduced