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The provenance of ‘The death of Sardanapalus’: new insights from unpublished correspondence

05/2024 | 1454 | 166

Pages: 470–478

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WATSON, Andrew M. (WATSON, Andrew M.)

Subjects

artists:

Delacroix, Eugène / Haro, Etienne-François / Dupré, Jules / Troyon, Constant

collectors and dealers:

Wilson, Daniel David

dates:

1840-1849

sources:

Correspondence

subjects:

French art / Acquisitions / Provenance / Restoration (process) / Collectors / Collections / Collecting

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Portrait of Daniel David Wilson, by ?Adolphe-David Fink. 1820s. Oil on canvas, 72 by 58 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

2. The death of Sardanapalus, by Eugène Delacroix. 1827. Oil on canvas, 392 by 496 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

3. Environs of Southampton, by Jules Dupré. 1835. Oil on canvas, 115 by 184 cm. (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Louis Senlecq, L’Isle-Adam).

Attributed works:

4. Virgin and Child (Madonna of the Rosary), by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. c.1675. Oil on canvas, 167 by 111 cm. (Château de Chenonceau).

Attributed works:

5. Portrait of Henriette Casenave Wilson, c.1830s. Pastel on board(?), 25 by 19 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

6. Woodcutters, by Constant Troyon. 1839. Oil on canvas, 213 by 154 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle).

Attributed works:

8. A basket of flowers, by Eugène Delacroix. 1848–49. Oil on canvas, 107.3 by 142.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Attributed works:

9. Façade of L’hôtel Brochart de Saron, 17, rue de l’Université, by Charles Lansiaux. Photograph. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris; PWB Images; Alamy Stock Photo).

Western art unattributed:

7. Château d’Écoublay. Postcard, 9 by 13.6 cm. (Private collection).

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New light on the nineteenth-century history of Vermeer’s ‘A maid asleep’

02/2023 | 1439 | 165

Pages: 165-169

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WATSON, Andrew M. (WATSON, Andrew M.)

Subjects

artists:

Vermeer, Johannes

collectors and dealers:

Wilson, John Waterloo (1815–1883) / Durand-Dassier, Victor Eugène (1834–1913) / Gauchez, Léon (1825–1907)

museums and institutions:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States

subjects:

Dutch painting / Provenance / Collecting / Collections, Private / Collectors

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. John Waterloo Wilson. c.1870s. Blackand- white photograph on porcelain, 18.5 by 14.5 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

2. Léon Gauchez, by William Quiller Orchardson. 1895. Oil on canvas, 114 by 100 cm. (Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels; photograph Photo d’art Speltdoorn & Fils, Brussels).

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3. A maid asleep, by Johannes Vermeer. c.1656–67. Oil on canvas, 87.6 by 76.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Attributed works:

4. Petrus Scriverius, by Frans Hals. 1626. Oil on panel, 22.2 by 16.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Attributed works:

5. Anna van der Aar, by Frans Hals. 1626. Oil on panel, 22.2 by 16.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Attributed works:

6. Sleeping woman, by Esaias Boursse. 1660s. Oil on wood, 50.8 by 40.6 cm. (Private collection; photograph BPK; Jörg P. Anders).

Attributed works:

7. A maid asleep, by Charles-Jean-Louis Courtry after Vermeer. 1881. Etching, 20 by 17.2 cm. (From ‘Les ventes d’art et de curiosité’, L’Art 24, part 1, 1881).

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Gustave Doré’s ‘Dante and Virgil’: an early commission from the Scottish collector Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone

05/2021 | 1418 | 163

Pages: 447-449

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WATSON, Andrew M. (WATSON, Andrew M.)

Subjects

artists:

Doré, Gustave

patrons:

Macdonald of Kepplestone, Alexander

subjects:

Divine Comedy (Dante) / French art / Commissions

Illustrations

Attributed works:

6. The psalterion, by Gustave Doré. 1868. Oil on canvas, 130.2 by 87.3 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021).

Attributed works:

7. Alexander Macdonald, by George Reid. 1879. Oil on canvas, 75 by 56 cm. (Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum).

Attributed works:

8. Dante kneeling before the celestial helmsman, by Gustave Doré. 1868. Ink sketch on paper in a letter from Doré to Alexander Macdonald, 30th May 1868. (Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives).

Attributed works:

9. Dante kneeling before the celestial helmsman, by Henri Théophile Hildibrand after Gustave Doré. c.1868. Engraving, 25 by 20 cm. From The vision of Purgatory and Paradise, London and New York 1868. (Private collection).

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Paul Durand-Ruel and James Duncan of Benmore

07/2018 | 1384 | 160

Pages: 558-571

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WATSON, Andrew M. (WATSON, Andrew M.)

Subjects

art literature:

Chesneau, Ernest

artists:

Rousseau, Théodore / Delacroix, Eugène / Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille / Courbet, Gustave / Verboeckhoven, Eugène / Lecomte du Nouy, Jean / Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875 / Henner, Jean-Jacques / Lefebvre, Jules Joseph / Lorrain, Claude / Renoir, Pierre-Auguste / Boudin, Eugène / Bouguereau, William-Adolphe / Degas, Edgar / Detti, Cesare Auguste / Steen, Jan / Cuyp, Aelbert / Masaccio / Bonheur, Rosa / Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest / Jettel, Eugen / Veyrassat, Jules-Jacques / Daubigny, Charles François

artists:

Billet, Pierre / Díaz, Narcisse Virgilio / Leys, Jan August Hendrik

collectors and dealers:

Durand-Ruel, Paul / Duncan, James / Petit, Francis / Arthur, Thomas Glen / Durand-Ruel, Charles / Morgan, J. Pierpont / Johnson, John G., 1841-1917 / Davis, Theodore M. / Altman, Benjamin

dates:

1850-1899 / 1870-1879 / 1880-1889

media:

Paintings / Documents

museums and institutions:

National Academy of Design, New York, United States

places:

France / Paris / United States / New York / Great Britain / London / Glasgow

private galleries:

Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, United States / Society of French Artists [gallery], London, Great Britain / Messr. Dowdeswell (dealers), London, Great Britain / Boussod, Valadon & Co

subjects:

French painting / Collecting / Collections / Collections, Private / Collectors / Art dealers / Correspondence / Landscapes (visual works) / Inventories / Auctions / Art market / Romanticism / Impressionism / Barbizon (style) / Attributions / Provenance

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Landscape with figures (‘La toilette’), by Camille Corot. 1859. Canvas, 150 by 89.5 cm. (Private collection, Paris).

Attributed works:

10. A eunuch’s dream, by Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ. 1874. Panel, 39.3 by 65.4 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art).

Attributed works:

11. The Death of Sardanapalus, by Eugène Delacroix. 1827. Canvas, 392 by 496 cm. (Musée du Louvre).

Attributed works:

12. The triumph of Ariadne, by Hans Makart. 1874. Canvas, 784 by 476 cm. (Upper Belvedere, Vienna).

Attributed works:

13. The Bay of Naples (morning), by Auguste Renoir. 1881. Canvas, 59.7 by 81.3 cm. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Attributed works:

15. Diana surprised, by Jules Joseph Lefèbvre. 1879. Canvas, 279 by 371.5 cm. (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Argentina).

Attributed works:

4. Morning, by Théodore Rousseau. 1865. 200 by 136 cm. Whereabouts unknown. (From Catalogue de tableaux modernes composant la collection de M. Duncan de Londres, Hôtel Drouot, Paris 15th April 1889, no.29).

Attributed works:

5. Evening, by Théodore Rousseau. 1865. 200 by 136 cm. Whereabouts unknown. (From Catalogue de tableaux modernes composant la collection de M. Duncan de Londres, Hôtel Drouot, Paris 15th April 1889, no.30).

Attributed works:

6. Interior of a Dominican convent in Madrid, by Eugène Delacroix. 1831. Canvas, 130.2 by 161.9 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art).

Attributed works:

7. The sheepshearers, by Jean François Millet. c.1857–61. Canvas, 41.2 by 28.5 cm. (The Art Institute of Chicago).

Attributed works:

8. Crossing the ford, evening by Camille Corot. c. 1868.Canvas. 99 by 135 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes).

Attributed works:

9. The wood-gatherers, by Pierre Billet. 1874. Canvas, 113 x 148 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

Fig.14. Night, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. 1883. Canvas, 208.3 by 107.3 cm. (Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, Washington).

Western art unattributed:

2. The Duncan family, showing James Duncan far right. c.1870–75. Photograph, 14.5 by 17.2 cm. (Private collection).

Western art unattributed:

3. Benmore House. Argyllshire. Duncan’s picture gallery is on the right. c.1889–90. Photograph, 13.3 by 20.6 cm (Private collection).

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