Details
- Artist Name: Antoine Vestier (French, 1740-1824)
- Title: Portrait of a Lady
- Date: 1763
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 31 x 26-3/4 in. (78.7 x 67.9 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Accession Number: M.1968.20.P
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
Duits Gallery, London, sold 1949 to;
Hugh F. P. Borthwick Norton, Borthwick Park, by descent in 1951 to;
Mrs. H. F. P. Borthwick Norton, Borthwick Park (sale, London, Christie’s, 15 May 1953, lot 90, to);
[Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, sold 1955 to];
Olaf Kier, returned 1968 to;
[Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, sold 1968 to];
Norton Simon Art Foundation.
Recent Acquisitions by the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art
- Portland, Portland Art Museum, 1968-11-12 to 1969-02
Display in the Founder's Room, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- Music Center, Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, 2012-02-16 to 2016-02-16
Three Centuries of French Art: Selections from The Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art and the Norton Simon Foundation_2
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1974-10-19 to 1976-06-15
Display in the Founder's Room, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- Music Center, Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, 2017-02-08 to 2018-02-08
Six Centuries of Portraiture from the Permanent Collection
- Norton Simon Museum, 1989-11-02 to 1990-12-16
Selections from the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art
- Princeton University Art Museum, 1972-12-03 to 1974-07-17
- Earnshaw, P., Period Home, 1982, p. 37
- Passez, Anne-Marie, Antoine Vestier 1740-1824, 1989, no. 5 pp. 100-101
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 510 p. 306
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