signed and dated: ‘C.N. Cochin Filius F. 1742’, black chalk
190 x 150 mm.
Provenance
G. Mühlbacher, sale, Paris, 13th – 14th May, 1899, no. 103; Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919), his stamp lower left, (L. 421), sale, Paris, 15th – 18th March, 1905, no. 30; David Weill, Paris (shelfmark on the reverse of the mount D.W 1257); Mrs Charles E. Dunlap, New York, her sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 4th December, 1975, no. 373; Private Collection, England, since 1975
Literature
S. Rocheblave, ‘Charles-Nicholas Cochin’, 1927, reproduced pl. XLI; G. Henriot, ‘Collection David Weill’,, vol. III, 1928, pp. 61-62, reproduced; Barbara Scott, ‘Madame Geoffrin: a patron and friend of artists’, Apollo, February, 1967, pp. 98 – 103, reproduced, fig. 1
Exhibited
Paris, ‘Exposition retrospective de la Ville de Paris’, 1900, no. 103
