Pierre Subleyras

Private collection, Switzerland;

Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Christie's, 9 April 1990, lot 45;

Where acquired by Colnaghi, Bruno Meissner, Newhouse, and Stair Sainty;

From whom acquired by BNP & Finacor Art, August 1990;

By whom anonymously sold, New York, Christie's, 29 January 1999, lot 44;

Where acquired by by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.

N.H.J. Hall (ed.), Colnaghi in America, New York 1992, pp. 88-89, reproduced;

G. Sestieri, Repertorio della Pittura Romana della Fine del Seicento e del Settecento, Turin 1994, vol. III, reproduced fig. 1052;

A. Wintermute, The French Portrait, 1550-1850, exhibition catalogue, New York 1996, pp. 44, 46, reproduced fig. 31;

P. Rosenberg, "Subleyras: douze ans après l'exposition de Paris et de Rome," in Scritti di Archaeologia e Storia dell'arte in onore di Carlo Pietrangeli, Rome 1997, p. 39, reproduced fig. 40;

A. Baron, "Adjugé," in L'estampille-L'Objet d'art (March 1999), p. 22, reproduced;

R. Lattuada, Dipinti della Collezione D'Errico di Palazzo San Gervasio a Matera, exhibition catalogue, Naples 1999, p. 44, reproduced fig. 1;

P. Rosenberg, in Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia 2000, pp. 437-438, reproduced;

F. Petrucci, Pittura di Ritratto a Roma, Il Settecento, Rome 2010, vol. I, p. 79, reproduced fig. 84; vol. III, p. 876, reproduced fig. 1283;

N. Lesur, in Sfida al Barocco, 1680-1750, Roma, Torino, Parigi, exhibition catalogue, Genoa 2020, p. 213;

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. 109-111, 174, cat. no. 25, reproduced;

N. Lesur, Pierre Subleyras, 1699-1749, Paris 2023, pp. 175-176, 399, cat. no. 431 P, reproduced.

Philadelphia Museum of Art; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Splendor of 18th-Century Rome, 16 March - 17 September 2000, no. 285;

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. 25.