Madame Bergeret
Madame Bergeret
- Artist
- François Boucher
- Artist Dates
- 1703-1770
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Title
- Madame Bergeret
- Date
- possibly 1766
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 143.5 x 105.4 cm (56 1/2 x 41 1/2 in)
- K Number
- K1335
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1946.7.3
- Notes
Provenance
Pierre Jacques Onésyme Bergeret de Grancourt [1715-1785], husband of the sitter, Paris; by inheritance to their elder son, Pierre Jacques Bergeret de Grancourt [1742-1807], Cassan; by inheritance to his stepson (the son of his second wife, Catherine Julie Xavier Poisson de la Chabeaussière, by her first marriage), Ange Philibert de la Girennerie, Cassan; by inheritance to his aunt (a sister of his mother), Barbe Françoise Victoire Poisson de la Chabeaussière Cotillon de Torcy; by inheritance to her daughter, Françoise Julie Cotillon de Torcy Le Bos de Sainte Croix; by inheritance to her daughter, Angélique Le Bos de Sainte Croix, comtesse Fontaine de Resbecq; by inheritance to the Resbecq family; sold by 1920 to (Wildenstein & Co., Paris, New York, and London); sold 1942 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [1] gift 1946 to NGA. [1] For further clarification, see the discussion by Alastair Laing in _François Boucher (1703-1770)_, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; New York, 1986: 229-233.