Jean Barbault

Commissioned by Jean-François de Troy (1679 - 1752), Rome, 1748 (as part of a series of twenty paintings);

His estate sale, Paris, Pierre Remy, 9 April 1764, lot 287 (the series, as by de Troy);

Jean de Julienne (1686 - 1766), Paris;

His estate sale, Paris, Didot, 10 March 1767, lot 233 (the series, as by de Troy);

Private collection, Paris, by 2006;

With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, by 2007;

From whom acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.

P. Mantz, “Jean Barbault,” in La chronique des arts et de la curiosité, March 1863, pp. 157-159 (the series);

J. Guiffrey, “Le peintre Jean Barbault pensionnaire du Roi à l’Académie de France à Rome de 1749 à 1753 et les mascarades des élèves de l’Académie au XVIIIe siècle,” in Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1909, pp. 102-109 and 210-211 (the series);

J. Picault, “Jean Barbault, pensionnaire à l’Académie de France à Rome 1750-1753,” in Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1951, pp. 27-31 (the series);

P. Rosenberg, “Jean Barbault,” in Arte Illustrata, November 1972, French edition, pp. 447-453, note 11, fig. 12 (the preliminary drawing);

N. Volle and P. Rosenberg, Jean Barbault 1718-1762, exhibition catalogue, Beauvais 1974, pp. 26-27 (the series);

S. Boyer in L. Belkaid et al., Jean Barbault: Le théâtre de la vie italienne, exhibition catalogue, Strasbourg 2010, pp. 61, 76-77, cat. no. 9, reproduced p. 77;

J.P. Marandel in Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles 2010, p. 51, under cat. no. 3;

S. Cordier in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 112-114, 174-175, cat. no. 26, reproduced.

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 26.