La Tour, Georges de Lot n° 11

Georges de La Tour 1593 Vic-sur-Seille - 1652 Lunéville A Girl Blowing on a Brazier (La Fillette au braisier) Oil on canvas. 76 x 55 cm (enlarged at the top with a strip of 7 cm). Indistinctly signed upper right: ... a Tour. Provenance Discovered in Toulouse, c. 1940; Art market, Nice; Acquired by Jean Néger, Paris, c. 1947; By whom anonymously sold, Sotheby’s, London, 26 June 1957, lot 60, for £2,500 to Johnson; Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10 July 1968, lot 47, for £25,000 to Spencer Samuels; With Spencer Samuels, New York; Fletcher Jones (died 1972); By whose Estate sold, Christie’s, London, 28 November 1975, lot 82, for £17,850. Exhibitions Chefs-d’œuvre de l’Art Alsacien et Lorrain, Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1 October-30 November 1948, no. 490; Cent Portraits des Femmes du XVe siècle à nos jours, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1950, no. 32; La Peinture en Espagne et en France autour du Caravaggisme, Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1955, no. 102; Fem Sekler Fransk Konst. Miniatyrer, målningar, teckningar, 1400-1900, Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, 15 August-9 November 1958, no. 34; Das 17. Jahrhundert in der französischen Malerei, Berne, Kunstmuseum, 1 February - 31 March 1959, no. 45; London, Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1972, on loan following cleaning; Kunsthalle Bremen, on loan 1976-1980; Georges de La Tour, Paris, Grand Palais, 3 October 1997 - 26 January 1998, no. 59; Georges de La Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, Musée départemental, on loan, 2003-2004; Poussin, Watteau, Chardin, David…. Peintures françaises dans les collections allemandes XV