id: 141476 accession number: 1964.89 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.89 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:12.996000 Portrait of Jean-Gabriel du Theil at the Signing of the Treaty of Vienna, 1738–40. Jacques André Joseph Aved (French, 1702–1766). Oil on canvas; framed: 153.5 x 121.5 x 13.5 cm (60 7/16 x 47 13/16 x 5 5/16 in.); unframed: 124.5 x 92.4 cm (49 x 36 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1964.89 title: Portrait of Jean-Gabriel du Theil at the Signing of the Treaty of Vienna title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1738–40 creation date earliest: 1738 creation date latest: 1740 current location: 216B French and German creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jacques André Joseph Aved (French, 1702–1766) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 153.5 x 121.5 x 13.5 cm (60 7/16 x 47 13/16 x 5 5/16 in.); Unframed: 124.5 x 92.4 cm (49 x 36 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1964) opening date: 1964-12-08T05:00:00 Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965). title: The Age of Louis XV: French Painting, 1710 - 1774 opening date: 1975-10-26T04:00:00 The Age of Louis XV: French Painting, 1710 - 1774. The Toledo Museum of Art (organizer) (October 26-December 7, 1975); The Art Institute of Chicago (January 10-February 22, 1976); National Gallery of Canada (March 21-May 2, 1976). title: Das Meschenbuild in der europäischen Kunst (Images of Man in Western Art) opening date: 1980-07-05T04:00:00 Das Meschenbuild in der europäischen Kunst (Images of Man in Western Art). Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (July 5-September 28, 1980). title: Nicolas de Largillierre and the Role of the Portrait in 18th Century France opening date: 1981-09-19T04:00:00 Nicolas de Largillierre and the Role of the Portrait in 18th Century France. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (organizer) (September 19-November 15, 1981). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Paris, Salon, 1740, cat. no. 85 ("Un Tableau représentant M. du Theil, Secretaire du Cabinet du Roy, premier Commis des Affaires étrangères, ci-devant Ministre & Plénipotentiaire de Sa Majeste auprès de l\'Empereur, au moment qu\'il vient de signer un des Actes de la dernière Pacification.")', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Style, Truth, and the Portrait. Cleveland Museum of Art (October 1 - November 10, 1963), cat. no. 48.', 'opening_date': '1963-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Age of Louis XV, French Painting 1710-1774. Toledo Museum of Art (October 26-December 7, 1975); Art Institute of Chicago (January 10-February 22, 1976); Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada (March 21-May 2, 1976), cat. no. 2.', 'opening_date': '1975-10-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Bilder vom Menschen in der Kunst des Abendlandes. Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz (July 5 - September 28, 1980), cat. no. 43.', 'opening_date': '1980-07-05T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Nicolas de Largillierre and the Role of the Portrait in 18th-Century France. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Canada (September 19 - November 15, 1981), cat. no. 77.', 'opening_date': '1981-09-19T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Edouard Kann [1873-1927], Paris, France date: by 1922 footnotes: *
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.
citations: Possibly Madame Delaney, Paris, France date: Until 1956? footnotes: *
1The original source for the inclusion of Delaney in this provenance is unknown. The Aved catalogue raisonné has several paintings with "Delaunay" in their provenances, suggesting the possibility that this name have at some point been incorrectly recorded as “Delaney.”  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 “Delaney” is, in fact, the correct name.  A 1933 Galerie Charpentier sale in which the Tiepolo appears lists the owner as “Mme. D,” 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.
citations: (Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Dec. 10, 1956, lot J, sold to Wildenstein & Co.) date: Dec. 10, 1956 footnotes: *
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 “divers amateurs” (various private collectors) whose collection comprised this sale, although this is unconfirmed. 
citations: (Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1956-1964 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1964- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Notice historique er biographique sur J.-G. de la Porte du Theil, ambassadeur du roi Louis XV. page number: url: Guiffrey, Jules Marie Joseph. Collection des livrets des anciennes expositions depuis 1673 jusqu'en 1800. 44 vols in 3. Paris: Liepmannssohn et Dufour, 1869-1873. page number: Mentioned: vol. 7 (1), 24. url: Wildenstein, Georges. Le peintre Aved, sa vie et son oeuvre 1702-1766. 2 vols. Paris: Les Beaux-arts, édition d'études et de documents, 1922. page number: Mentioned: vol. 1, 51, 53-55, 56, 72, 118, 121; vol. 2, no. 47 and reproduced opp. p. 66 url: Wildenstein, Georges. Le peintre Aved, sa vie et son oeuvre 1702-1766. Paris: Les Beaux-arts, édition d'études et de documents, 1922. page number: url: Claude, Pierre. "Un grand realiste Jacques Aved," La Renaissance de l'Art V no. 6 (June 1922), 374-381. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: 376 url: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61277151/f732.item 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. page number: Mentioned: 255; Reproduced: opposite254 url: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k97652932/f289.item Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux anciens…Par ou attribués à: J. Aved – Moreau L’Ainé – A. van der Neer – H. Rigaud et des écoles anglaise, française et hollandaise appartenant à divers amateurs. Dec. 10, 1956. page number: url: Vodo, Nina Nikolaevna. "Neopublikovannyj portret dramaturga Krebijona raboty Aveda [An unpublished portrait of the playwright Crébillon by Aved]." Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Muzeja Izobrazitel'nych Iskusstv Imeni A.S. Puškina [Travaux du Museé Pouchkine des Beaux-Arts] (1960), 247-260. page number: Mentioned: 256; Reproduced: 254 url: Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: cat. no. 48 url: "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April - June 1964." The Art Quarterly 27 (1964):
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: 383 url: "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April - June 1964." The Art Quarterly 27 (1964).
page number: Reproduced: 383 url: Francis, Henry S. "Two Portraits by Aved and Gros." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 8 (1964): 196-205. page number: url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152012 Frankfurter, Alfred. "Museum Evaluations, l: Cleveland." Art News 63 (December 1964): 26-29, 58-61. page number: Reproduced: 27; Mentioned: 58-59. url: "La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 6, vol. 65 (February 1965): suppl.
page number: Reproduced: 45, no. 190 url: Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 134 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n158 Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 134 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n158 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 Rosenberg, Pierre, in The Age of Louis XV: French Painting 1710-1774. Exh. cat.Toledo, OH: Toledo Museum of Art, 1975. page number: Mentioned: 13, 19 cat. 2; Reproduced: pl. 58 url: Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 177 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n197 "Berichte:Bilder vom Menschen in der Kunst des Abendlandes."
Die Kunst (July 1980):
page number: Reproduced: p. 406 url: Bilder vom Menschen in der Kunst des Abendlandes: Jubiläumsausstellung 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: Conisbee, Philip. Painting in Eighteenth-Century France. Oxford, England: Phaidon Press, 1981. page number: Mentioned: 124-125; Reproduced: 128, fig. 102 url: Rosenfeld, Myra Nan. Largillierre and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait. Montréal, Québec, Canada: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1981. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: 368-36, cat. no. 779 url: 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. page number: Mentioned: p. 49-51; Reproduced: p. 50 url: 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 url: Lespes, Michelle. 2003 "Aved, Jacques(-André-Joseph)." Grove Art Online. page number: Mentioned url: http://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000005273. Lespes, Michelle. "Le peintre Aved et la cour de Stanislas." Pays Lorrain 101 (September 2005): 167-176. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: 169 url: Heyen, E.V. "Councillors and Officials in the Early Modern Period." Yearbook of European Administrative History no. 19 (2007). page number: p. 240 url: Wilson, Gillian, Charissa Bremer-David, and Jeffrey Weaver. French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes: Baroque and Régence: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: 358, fig. 43-e. url: Clark, Alvin L., ed. Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-century French Art from the Horvitz Collection. [Boston, Massachusetts]: The Horvitz Collection, [2017]. page number: Reproduced: p. 434, fig. 1 url: Cock-Starkey, Claire. A Museum Miscellany. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2019. page number: Mentioned: P. 8 url: Heyen, Erk Volkmar. Verwaltete Welten: Mensch, Gemeinwesen und Amt in der europäischen Malerei. 2013. page number: p. 249, fig. 7 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.89/1964.89_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.89/1964.89_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.89/1964.89_full.tif