Gallery Label The theatrical effect created by the firelight and candles is typical of the work of Dumesnil, who was professor and rector of the French Académie and exhibited at the Salons from 1751 until 1774.
Provenance [C. Duits, London, until 1961; sold for $10,000 to Kleinberger]; [Kleinberger, New York, 1961–75; bequeathed by Harry G. Sperling, last surviving partner of firm, to MMA]
Exhibition History Hartford. Wadsworth Atheneum. "Let There Be Light," March 11–April 26, 1964, no. 212 (as by Jean François de Troy, lent by F. Kleinberger & Co., Inc.).
San Francisco. M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. "Man, Glory, Jest, and Riddle," November 10, 1964–January 3, 1965, no. 170 (as by Jean François de Troy, lent by F. Kleinberger & Co., New York).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Eighteenth-Century Woman," December 12, 1981–September 5, 1982, unnumbered cat. (p. 51).
Atlanta. High Museum of Art. "The Rococo Age: French Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century," October 5–December 31, 1983, no. 55.
References Eric M. Zafran. The Rococo Age: French Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century . Exh. cat., High Museum of Art. Atlanta, 1983, p. 119, no. 55, ill. p. 108 (color).Apollo 119 (January 1984), p. 21, fig. 10.
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