Keywords: Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson 1745 by Nattier.jpg Artwork 1745 Oil on canvas Overall 137 9 x 105 4 cm 54 5/16 x 41 1/2 in Framed 177 8 x 144 78 x 15 24 cm 70 x 57 x 6 in Institution National Gallery of Art credit line Samuel H Kress Collection center left at base of column Nattier / 1745 object history Duc de Mailly; Théodore Richard 1782-1859 Paris; his sale Hôtel Drouot Paris 19-20 and 22 March 1858 no 176 with sitter misidentified as Portrait of Bouffon sale Hôtel Drouot Paris 27 March 1877 no 42 with sitter misidentified as Portrait of Bouffon ; Gustave Rothan; his sale Galerie Georges Petit Paris 29-31 May 1890 no 176 as Portrait of a Man ; L Cahen d'Anvers 1 Paris by 1900; A de Rothschild by 1906; Thos Agnew and Sons Ltd London by 4 May 1936; comte X ; his sale Galerie Jean Charpentier Paris 18 March 1937 lot A ; purchased by Damidot 2 Galerie Cailleux Paris by 1952;3 purchased 1954 by the Samuel H Kress Foundation New York; gift 1961 to NGA 1 In all probability the French banker comte Louis-Raphaël Cahen d'Anvers 1837-1922 ; see Colin Bailey's entry for Renoir's Portrait of Alice and Élisabeth Cahen d'Anvers Museu de Arte de Sao Paolo Assis Chateaubriand in Colin Bailey Renoir's Portraits Impressions of an Age exh cat ; National Gallery of Canada Ottawa; Art Institute of Chicago; Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth; New Haven 1997 180-182 no 38 and notes on 306-307 2 This was reported in the Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot 20 March 1937 1 3 The painting was lent by Cailleux to the 1952 exhibition at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris exhibition history 1746 Salon of 1746 Paris no 67 as M Bonier de la Mosson dans son cabinet 1878 Tableaux anciens et modernes Musée des Arts Decoratifs Paris 1878 no 195 as Portrait de Buffon 1883 L'art du XVIIIe Siècle Galerie Georges Petit Paris 1883-1884 no 111 as Portrait d'homme 1900 Exposition Universelle Paris 1900 no 208 1932 Exhibition of French Art Royal Academy of Arts London 1932 no 2239 no 205 of first catalogue 1952 Cent portraits d'hommes du XIVe siècle à nos jours Galerie Charpentier Paris 1952 no 70 repro 1999 Jean-Marc Nattier 1685-1766 Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon 1999-2000 no 42 repro 2011 Paris Life Luxury in the Eighteenth Century The J Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston 2011-2012 no 93 repro place of creation NGA Images 1961 9 30 14px https //images nga gov/en/page/openaccess html Open Access courtesy of the National Gallery of Art Information on the paintings provenance and exhibition history complied by the National Gallery of Art accession number 1961 9 30 PD-old-100 Portrait paintings by Jean-Marc Nattier French paintings in the National Gallery of Art Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson 1745 oil on canvas paintings in the United States Portrait 1745 portrait paintings from France Male 18th-century oil portraits of sitting men at three-quarter length 1745 18th-century portrait paintings in the National Gallery of Art 1745 Blue drapery in portrait paintings 1745 Portrait paintings of men holding books 1745 Salon of 1746 Tables in portrait paintings 1745 Tassels in portrait paintings 1745 |