Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed and dated (lower right): Nattier p.x. / 1756.
Notes The sitter has been convincingly identified as Mademoiselle Belot, who married in 1756 Etienne de Maison-Rouge, receveur général des finances. In 1777 she was painted by Nattier in the guise of Venus (collection of Lynda and Stewart Resnick, Los Angeles).
Provenance ?comtesse de Montdésir, château de Montdésir, near Cherbourg; [Gimpel & Wildenstein, New York, until 1903; sold to MMA]
Exhibition History Athens. National Pinakothiki, Alexander Soutzos Museum. "Treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Memories and Revivals of the Classical Spirit," August 15–November 15, 1979, no. 54.
Versailles. Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. "Jean-Marc Nattier," October 26, 1999–January 30, 2000, no. 76.
References Pierre de Nolhac. J.-M. Nattier: Peintre de la cour de Louis XV . Paris, 1905, p. 122 [2nd ed., Paris, 1910, p. 201].in "Nattier 1685 à 1766." Les peintres français du XVIIIe siècle: Histoire des vies et catalogue des oeuvres . Paris, 1930, vol. 2, p. 17, no. 139.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of French Paintings . 1, Cambridge, Mass., 1955, pp. 121–23, ill.Diary of an Art Dealer . English ed. New York, 1966, p. 298.Oxford, China, and Italy: Writings in Honour of Sir Harold Acton on his Eightieth Birthday . London, 1984, p. 231.Courbet's Hunt Scenes: The End of a Tradition . Providence, 1990, p. 18, no. 19.Jean-Marc Nattier, 1685–1766 . Exh. cat., Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. Paris, 1999, pp. 100, 184, 266–70, no. 76, ill. (color).
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