Portrait of Cardinal Guillaume Dubois

Provenance

Where it has been

1. 1967 –
   The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
   high confidenceCleveland Museum of Art

   “The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (1967-)”

2. 1956 – 1957
   (Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
   high confidenceCleveland Museum of Art

   “(Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (1956-1957)”

3. 1956 –
   (Hôtel Drouot, sale, Dec. 10, 1956, lot Q, sold to Wildenstein & Co.)1
   purchase
   high confidenceCleveland Museum of Art

   “(Hôtel Drouot, sale, Dec. 10, 1956, lot Q, sold to Wildenstein & Co.)1 (1956) [notes: 1In addition to the Rigaud painting, Wildenstein also purchased Aved's Portrait of Jean-Gabriel du Theil at the Signing of the Treaty of Vienna (CMA 1964.89) at this sale.  Prior to this auction, the Rigaud, like the Aved, may have been in the Delaney collection.  The Aved painting, as well as Tiepolo painting currently in the Samuel Kress Collection at the National Gallery (1952.5.78), were both owned by Edouard Kann and then by “Mme. Delaney,” who may or may not have been the consignor to the 1956 Drouot sale.  Because both the Rigaud and Aved were owned by Edouard Kann and were later sold in the 1956 sale, it is likely that the intervening owner(s) were also the same.  The exact path that the Rigaud and Aved took after Kann is unknown; the Tiepolo was sold at the Galerie Charpentier in 1933, but neither the Rigaud nor the Aved appears in that sale.]”

4. 1907 –
   Edouard Kann, Berlin1
   purchase
   high confidenceCleveland Museum of Art

   “Edouard Kann, Berlin1 (1907) [notes: 1 The Duveen Brothers stock book indicates, through a "K" in the "remarks" column, that on August 4, 1907, Edouard Kann, Rodolphe's son, purchased the Rigaud and other works from his father's collection]”

5. 1905 – 1907
   (Duveen Brothers, Paris, sold to Edouard Kann)1
   high confidenceCleveland Museum of Art

   “(Duveen Brothers, Paris, sold to Edouard Kann)1 (1905-1907) [notes: 1 In 1905, shortly after Rodolphe Kann's death, Duveen announced its purchase of Kann's entire collection, which would be sold from the firm's new office in Paris (Catherine Scallen, Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship).  Because Kann had left no will, problems ensued and it took over two years for the transaction to be officially completed; on August 7, 1907 the completion of the sale was published (James Henry Duveen, The Rise of the House of Duveen).  The Rigaud appears under stock no. 156 in the Duveen stock book that inventories the Rodolphe Kann collection. ]”

6. By 1900 – 1907
   Rodolphe Kann, Paris, collection purchased by the Duveen Brothers
   purchase
   high confidenceCleveland Museum of Art

   “Rodolphe Kann, Paris, collection purchased by the Duveen Brothers (By 1900-1907)”

7. Dates unknown
   (Possibly P. & D. Colnaghi, London) 1
   high confidenceCleveland Museum of Art

   “(Possibly P. & D. Colnaghi, London) 1 [notes: 1According to the Frick Art Reference Library's annotated copy of the 1892 Christie's sale catalogue, the painting was purchased by Colnaghi.  Unfortunately, Colnaghi's stock books do not go back as far as 1892 and thus this purchase cannot be confirmed.  Furthermore, there are no published versions of the painting's provenance that include Colnaghi.]”

8. 1892 –
   (Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 21, 1892, no. 68, possibly sold to P. & D. Colnaghi)1
   high confidenceCleveland Museum of Art

   “(Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 21, 1892, no. 68, possibly sold to P. & D. Colnaghi)1 (1892) [notes: 1 The sale does include the collection of the 4th Earl of Egremont, but the whereabouts of the painting from his death in 1845 until the sale in 1892 are unknown.]”

9. ? – 1845
   George Francis Wyndham, 4th Earl of Egremont [1786 – 1845]
   purchase
   high confidenceCleveland Museum of Art

   “George Francis Wyndham, 4th Earl of Egremont [1786 – 1845] (-1845)”

10. by 1764 –
    Mlle. Violat (heiress of Cardinal Dubois), Chateau de Villemenon, near Brie-Comte-Robert 1
    high confidenceCleveland Museum of Art

    “Mlle. Violat (heiress of Cardinal Dubois), Chateau de Villemenon, near Brie-Comte-Robert 1 (by 1764) [notes: 1The Archives de l'art français; recueil de documents inédits publié par la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, vol. 19, pp. 312-315 contains the correspondence between Charles-Nicolas Cochin and the Marquis de Marigny that refer to Violat's possession of the painting.]”

11. Dates unknown
    Wildenstein & Company
    medium confidenceWikidata · owned by
12. Dates unknown
    Edouard Gustave Kann
    medium confidenceWikidata · owned by