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"The circumstances of Edouard's acquisition of the Aved painting are not known. The nephew of Rodolphe Kann and the son of Maurice Kann, both prominent collectors, Edouard does not appear to have inherited the painting from either.
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"description": "Possibly Madame Delaney, Paris, France",
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"1The original source for the inclusion of Delaney in this provenance is unknown. The Aved catalogue raisonn\u00e9 has several paintings with \"Delaunay\" in their provenances, suggesting the possibility that this name have at some point been incorrectly recorded as \u201cDelaney.\u201d However, a Tiepolo painting in the Samuel Kress Collection at the National Gallery (1952.5.78) contains Edouard Kann in its provenance followed by Mme. D[elaney], indicating that \u201cDelaney\u201d is, in fact, the correct name. A 1933 Galerie Charpentier sale in which the Tiepolo appears lists the owner as \u201cMme. D,\u201d while Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection (1951) identifies Madame Delaney as the owner following Kann. The original source connecting Mme. Delaney to the Tiepolo is unknown. That the Tiepolo was previously owned by Edouard Kann and then by Delaney does give credence to the inclusion of Delaney following Kann in the Aved provenance.
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"date": "Until 1956?",
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"1 In addition to the Aved painting, Wildenstein also purchased Rigaud's Portrait of Cardinal Guillaume Dubois (CMA 1967.17) at this sale. Madame Delaney may be one of the \u201cdivers amateurs\u201d (various private collectors) whose collection comprised this sale, although this is unconfirmed.
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"did_you_know": "Smoke rising from the candle suggests that du Theil has just added his molten wax seal to the document before him.",
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"description": "As secretary of foreign affairs for Louis XV of France, Jean-Gabriel du Theil (1685\u20131755) helped negotiate the 1738 Treaty of Vienna, which ceded the Duchy of Lorraine to France. The seal du Theil holds in his hand, the silver-gilt writing set, and the thick document all allude to these negotiations, while the wisp of smoke rising from the candle used to melt the sealing wax suggests that the treaty has only just concluded. Du Thiel\u2019s relaxed posture conveys calm assurance, but his sharp gaze is that of a shrewd negotiator. A costume encrusted with gold embroidery and (just visible at his chest) the pink ribbon and star of the royal Order of Saint Lazarus, are visible manifestations of du Theil\u2019s prestigious position.",
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"citation": "Notice historique er biographique sur J.-G. de la Porte du Theil, ambassadeur du roi Louis XV.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned: vol. 1, 51, 53-55, 56, 72, 118, 121; vol. 2, no. 47 and reproduced opp. p. 66",
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"citation": "Claude, Pierre. \"Un grand realiste Jacques Aved,\" La Renaissance de l'Art V no. 6 (June 1922), 374-381.",
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"citation": "Boucher, Francois. Review of Georges Wildenstein, Le Peintre Aved, sa vie et son oeuvre, in Gazette des Beaux-Arts VI, no. 1 (1922), 255-256, pl. opp. 254.",
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"citation": "Ho\u0302tel Drouot. Tableaux anciens\u2026Par ou attribu\u00e9s \u00e0: J. Aved \u2013 Moreau L\u2019Ain\u00e9 \u2013 A. van der Neer \u2013 H. Rigaud et des \u00e9coles anglaise, fran\u00e7aise et hollandaise appartenant \u00e0 divers amateurs. Dec. 10, 1956.",
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"citation": "Vodo, Nina Nikolaevna. \"Neopublikovannyj portret dramaturga Krebijona raboty Aveda [An unpublished portrait of the playwright Cr\u00e9billon by Aved].\" Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Muzeja Izobrazitel'nych Iskusstv Imeni A.S. Pus\u030ckina [Travaux du Muse\u00e9 Pouchkine des Beaux-Arts] (1960), 247-260.",
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"citation": "\"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April - June 1964.\" The Art Quarterly 27 (1964):
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"url": null
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"citation": "\"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April - June 1964.\" The Art Quarterly 27 (1964).
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"page_number": "Reproduced: 383",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"Two Portraits by Aved and Gros.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 8 (1964): 196-205.",
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"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152012"
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"citation": "Frankfurter, Alfred. \"Museum Evaluations, l: Cleveland.\" Art News 63 (December 1964): 26-29, 58-61.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: 27; Mentioned: 58-59.",
"url": null
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"citation": "\"La Chronique des Arts.\" Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 6, vol. 65 (February 1965): suppl.
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"citation": "Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n158"
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"citation": "Talbot, William S. \"Comte De Richebourg le Toureil.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 1 (1971): 2-9",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: 3, fig. 3",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152356"
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"citation": "\"Berichte:Bilder vom Menschen in der Kunst des Abendlandes.\"
Die Kunst (July 1980):
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"url": null
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"citation": "Bilder vom Menschen in der Kunst des Abendlandes: Jubila\u0308umsausstellung der Preussischen Museen Berlin 1830-1980 . Exh. cat. Berlin: Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1980.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: 187-188(cat. no. 43); Reproduced:color pl. 16.",
"url": null
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"citation": "Conisbee, Philip. Painting in Eighteenth-Century France. Oxford, England: Phaidon Press, 1981.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: 124-125; Reproduced: 128, fig. 102",
"url": null
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"citation": "Rosenfeld, Myra Nan. Largillierre and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait. Montre\u0301al, Que\u0301bec, Canada: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1981.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: 368-36, cat. no. 779",
"url": null
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings. Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "Vincent, Margaret. A Delicate Art: Flemish Lace, 1700-1940: an Exhibition Selected from the Collection of the Allentown Art Museum. Exh. cat. Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1986.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: 12, fig. 3",
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"citation": "Lespes, Michelle. 2003 \"Aved, Jacques(-Andr\u00e9-Joseph).\" Grove Art Online.",
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"url": "http://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000005273."
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"citation": "Lespes, Michelle. \"Le peintre Aved et la cour de Stanislas.\" Pays Lorrain 101 (September 2005): 167-176.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: 169",
"url": null
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"citation": "Heyen, E.V. \"Councillors and Officials in the Early Modern Period.\" Yearbook of European Administrative History no. 19 (2007).",
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"citation": "Wilson, Gillian, Charissa Bremer-David, and Jeffrey Weaver. French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes: Baroque and Re\u0301gence: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008.",
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"citation": "Clark, Alvin L., ed. Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-century French Art from the Horvitz Collection. [Boston, Massachusetts]: The Horvitz Collection, [2017].",
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"citation": "Cock-Starkey, Claire. A Museum Miscellany. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2019.",
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"citation": "Heyen, Erk Volkmar. Verwaltete Welten: Mensch, Gemeinwesen und Amt in der europa\u0308ischen Malerei. 2013.",
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