Jean-Baptiste Santerre

Possibly acquired by Jean Robert Tronchin (1710-1793), Geneva, in the 18th century (as La femme au billet doux);

Claude Réné César (1761-1849), Count of Courtarvel-Pézé (as Mignard, Portrait of Madame Anne Mansart; according to an inscribed armorial print affixed to the canvas’s verso);

Thence by descent and inheritance until anonymously sold, Paris, Sotheby's, 23 June 2004, lot 11;

Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.

Probably A. Potiquet, Jean Baptiste Santerre, Peintre, Sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris 1876, p. 10 (as Une femme assise, en toilette de bal, tenant une lettre de la main droite);

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. 102-105, 173-174, cat. no. 23, reproduced.

ENGRAVED

Nicolas Chateau, 1708.

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. 23.