Susanna of Bavaria

Artists

Dimensions

40.3 x 29.4 cm (15 7/8 x 11 9/16 in.)

Provenance

General Antoine-François Andreossy (possibly by 1809-1828); to his heirs, sold [through Andreossy sale, Hotel des Commissaires-Priseurs, April 13-16, 1864, lot 75]. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris, France (?-1877), sold; [at his sale, Drouot, Paris, France, April 16- May 12, 1877, lot 21]. John Postle Heseltine, London, England. [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, England (by 1918-1922), sold September 1922]; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (1922-1949), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949. Notes: 1. According to the May 22, 1864 issue of La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité (a supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts), the Andreossy collection was sold in Spring 1864, although Andreossy had passed away in 1828. Andreossy likely originally acquired the drawing when he was the military governor of Vienna in 1809. 2. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, 1790-1876 (Lugt 119) 3. John Postle Heseltine, 1843-1929 (Lugt 1507) 4. The drawing was not sold in the Heseltine sale at Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, May 27-28, 1913, listed under Lugt 1507. 5. Per the drawing’s catalogue entry for the 1965-67 Paul J. Sachs Memorial Exhibition, Sachs expressed interest in the drawing when he first saw it at P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. in London in 1918.