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"description": "Possibly Comte Andr\u00e9 de Ganay [1863-1912], Paris1",
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"1The catalogue of the 1914 Galerie Georges Petit sale of the Fairfax Murray collection says that this painting was formerly in the Comte de Ganay collection. A June 4, 1903 sale of the Ganay collection contains a painting entitled \u201cPortrait d\u2019homme\u201d with this description: \u201cVu de trois quarts \u00e0 droite, il et coiff\u00e9 d\u2019une volumineuse perruque poudr\u00e9e; il est envelope dans un manteau de velours rouge. La t\u00eate seule est du ma\u00eetre.\u201d The painting is 75 x 60 cm; CMA\u2019s painting is 80.6 x 63.8 cm. Timing-wise and based on the description of the painting\u2019s composition, this would appear to be the CMA painting: Fairfax Murray sold the painting to Thomas Agnew & Sons in 1905, and so it is certainly feasible he would have purchased it in 1903. The dimensions, while not exact, are close enough to refer to the same work. However, the notation that only the head is the work of Largilli\u00e8re is puzzling, as CMA has not come across any research suggesting Largilli\u00e8re was responsible for the head only. Jean Cailleux, who handled the painting in the 1960s, wrote that he was unable to identify a catalogue which situates the painting in the Ganay collection, and that it does not appear in the June 3, 1903 sale. It is possible that the Galerie Georges Petit incorrectly assumed that the Largilli\u00e8re in the 1903 sale was the painting in Fairfax Murray\u2019s collection, and that Ganay should not be in this provenance.
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"description": "(Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, sold to Calouste S. Gulbenkian)1",
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"1 After buying the painting from Charles Fairfax Murray in June 1905, Thomas Agnew & Sons sold it to Gulbenkian in June 1907, only to buy it back and sell it again to Murray.
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"1 The Frick Art Reference Library copy of the Fairfax Murray sale catalogue has a handwritten notation listing Bousquet as the buyer.
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"description": "Galerie Cailleux, Paris, sold to the Detroit Institute of Arts with funds provided by Ernest Kanzler 1",
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"1 Cailleux purchased the painting on the Parisian art market and did not pay attention to its owners prior to Ganay. He also did not know when the painting left Bousquet\u2019s collection, indicating that Cailleux did not purchase it directly from Bousquet.
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"description": "Ernest Kanzler [1892-1967], Detroit, MI 1",
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"1 In January 1966 the Detroit Institute of Arts acquired the painting from Cailleux with funds provided by Kanzler, who also served as broker in the sale. Kanzler, however, had reservations about the work entering the museum\u2019s permanent collection, and thus reserved the right to buy the painting back from the museum. The portrait was temporarily placed in the DIA\u2019s study collection between 1966 and 1967 and was never officially accessioned. During those two years, the painting traveled back and forth between the museum and Kanzler several times before Kanzler officially purchased the painting from the DIA in June 1967.
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"description": "The estate of Ernest Kanzler and Rosemarie Kanzler, sold to Eugene V. Thaw",
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"description": "(Eugene V. Thaw, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1",
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"1Thaw purchased the painting from Kanzler's estate through Mrs. Kanzler's agent.
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"description": "By positioning the figure close to the picture plane and engulfed in a swirl of drapery, Nicolas de Largilli\u00e8re created a remarkably informal likeness of the 26-year-old Goislard. This impression is enhanced by the sitter\u2019s open shirt and the drift of wig powder that dusts the shoulders of his velvet doublet. Warm hues and thick brushstrokes reveal the artist\u2019s study of earlier Flemish painters, notably Anthony van Dyck. Despite his youth and seeming nonchalance, Goislard was a figure of prominence. He may have commissioned this work to commemorate his appointment to the Parlement, or governing council, of France in 1732, or earning the title Lord of Montsabert the following year.",
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