A Music Party

Abbe de Gevigny, Paris, France, by 1779. Marquis de Salamanca, Paris, by 1867. Dowager Duchess of Richelieu, Princess of Monaco.{1} Edouard Jonas, Paris, by 1927;{2} Isaac D. Levy [1868-1934], New York, by 1927;{3} Sale at (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, New York) in 1944;{4} (Nicholas M. Acquavella Galleries, New York); {5} Louis and Mildred Kaplan, New York; Sale at (Christie, Mason & Woods, London, England) in 1958.{6} Probably (John Mitchell Fine Paintings, London, England).{7} Given by Mr. and Mrs. Miklos Sperling to the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1967 (67.21). ------- {1} This early provenance is given in Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch painters of the Seventeenth Century, 8 volumes, 1908-27, volume 1, p. 520, no. 166. (2} Edouard Jonas is likely to be the dealer referred to as the "marchand de Paris" responsible for rediscovering this painting, see Clotilde Brière-Misme, "Tableaux inédits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch (part 3)", Gazette des Beaux Arts, 53 per., volume 16 (1927): pp. 277, 279 (illustration) Peter Sutton's reference to an "Edward Jones" is likely to be an anglicizing of "Edouard Jonas"; see Peter C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Complete Edition with a catalogue raisonné, Ithaca 1980, catalogue no. 116 (illustration). From approximately late 1926 to late 1932, Jonas had a 56th Street New York gallery called "Edouard Jonas of Paris." On Jonas, see "It Always Comes Back," Time Magazine, 2 January 1933. {3} I.D.Levy is given as the owner in the article by Brière-Misme cited above. {4} Parke Bernet, Paintings, furniture, works of art, 24-25 November 1944, with the consignor's name given as "Mrs. Joseph Heine (Formerly Mrs. I. D. Levy )". {5} Undated correspondence from Nicholas M. Acquavella to IMA, stating that he purchased the painting at the 1944 auction and sold it directly to Mrs. Mildred Kaplan, see IMA Historical File (67.21). {6} Christie, Manson & Woods, London, Fine Ancient and Modern Pictures and Drawings, The Properties of....Louis S. Kaplan, Esq…, 27 June 1958, lot no. 46 (illustration) {7} See Sutton, catalogue raisonné 1980, catalogue no. 116.