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Luncheon with Figures in Masquerade Dress
1725
Possibly Jean François de Troy (Artist) French, 1679-1752 Workshop of Jean François de Troy (Artist) French, 1679-1752
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 88 1/4 × 65 inches (224.2 × 165.1 cm) Framed: 100 3/4 × 79 3/8 × 4 1/2 inches (255.9 × 201.6 × 11.4 cm)
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European Painting
Founders Society Purchase in memory of Eleanor Clay Ford, Benson and Edith Ford Fund, Henry Ford II Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, William and Martha Ford Fund, Elizabeth, Allan and Warren Shelden Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr. Fund, Edsel and Eleanor Ford Fund and New Endowment Fund
77.72
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Provenance
Pierre Vigné [de Vigny] (Paris, France);April 1, 1773, sold by (RR. PP. Augustins du Grand Couvert [by 1894 called l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts], Paris, France) no. 96 [for 53 livres];
purchased by Mettra.
M. Hazé (Paris, France);
November 23, 1778, sold by (Hôtel d'Aligre, Paris, France) auction Hazé, lot 78 [La Retour d'un Bal, on voit quatre figures à tables, grandes comme nature . . . hauteur 6 pieds 9 pouces; largeur 5 pieds];
Comtesse de Jumilhac (France);
Marquis d'Aligre (Paris, France);
December 8, 1975, sold by (Palais Galliera, Paris, France) lot 40 [for 42,000 francs];
1975-1977, (Galerie Heim, Paris, France);
1977-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Le Jeune, T. Guide de L'Amateur de Tableaux. Paris, 1863, p. 351.
Remy, P. "Catalogue de tableaux de maitres très renommés des différentes écoles d'Italie, des Pays-Bas et de France; figures de bronze et de marbre; Mr De Vigny architecte." In de Beaumont in Reunion de la Société des Beaux-Arts des Departements. 1894, p. 646, no. 96.
Mireur, H. Dictionaires des Ventes d'Art, vol. 7. Paris, 1912, p. 216.
Wildenstein, G. "Le Salon de 1725; compte rendu." Le Salon de 1725. Paris, 1924, p. 39.
Brière, G. Les Peintres français du XVIII Siècle. Paris, 1930, pp. 7, 45, no. 19.
Brière, G. "Jean-Francois de Troy, peintre de la société élégante." B.S.H.A.F., vol. 2. Paris, 1931, p. 166.
Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 5: Annual Report (1978): pp. 261, 265, 275 (fig. 5).
"La Chronique des Arts." Supplement to the Gazette des Beaux Arts, no. 13213 (April 1979): p. 39, no. 192 (ill.).
Daniels. "The French Jordaens?" Art and Artists (March 1980): pp. 34-37 (fig. 2).
The Loves of the Gods: Mythological Painting from Watteau to David. Exh. cat., Grand Palais et al. Paris, 1991, pp. 220-221 (fig. 1), cited under cat. 19.
Leribault, Christophe. Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752). Paris, 2002, pp. 6, 59, 65, 228, 277, cat. 123 (ill.).
Old Master Paintings and Drawings. Exh. cat., Colnaghi. London, 2003, p. 64, cited under cat. 16.
Die Briefsieglerin von Jean-Siméon Chardin. Neue Einsichten in ein restauriertes Meisterwerk. Exh. cat., Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin-Brandenburg, 2003, pp. 26-27 (ill.); p. 27, (fig. 10).
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possibly Jean François de Troy; workshop of Jean François de Troy, Luncheon with Figures in Masquerade Dress, 1725, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase in memory of Eleanor Clay Ford, Benson and Edith Ford Fund, et al., 77.72.
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