Portrait of the Katchef Dahouth, Christian Mameluke

1804

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
French, 1767-1824

On View: European Painting and Sculpture, Gallery 220

Artist: Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Title: Portrait of the Katchef Dahouth, Christian Mameluke
Origin: France
Date: 1804
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Monogrammed and dated 1804 in upper right corner
Dimensions: 57 × 44 1/2 in. (144.7 × 133 cm)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection; through prior gift of Frank H. and Louise B. Woods
Reference Number: 1987.260

Jean Baptiste Boutard, “Salon de l’an XII,” Journal des Débats (Paris, November 14, 1804).
Jean Vatout,Catalogue historique et descriptif des tableaux appartenans à S.A.S. Mgr. le Duc d;Orleans ( Notices historiques sur le tableaux de la Galerie de S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc d’Orléans) vol. 4 (Paris,1826), p. 462, no. 170.
Jean Vatout and J. P. Quénot, Galerie lithographiée de Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc d’Orléans : dédiée a Son Altesse Royale Madame la Duchesse d’Orléans (Paris, 1824-1829), np, lithograph Le Turc by M. Marin.
P.A. Coupin, Oeuvres posthumes de Girodet-Trioson, peintre d’histoire; suivies de sa correspondance; précédées d’une notice historique, et mises en ordre (Paris, 1829), p. 66.
Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs vol. 4 (Paris, 1966), p. 288.
George Levitine, Girodet-Trioson: An Iconographical Study (New York, 1978), pp. 308-309.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1987-88 (Chicago, 1988), pp. 7 (pl. II), 27, 65.
Thierry Mercier, Hubert Duchemin, Frédérick Chanoit, Paris, Tableaux et Dessins des Dix-Huitième et Dix-Neuvième Siècles, Sale, May 16-June 17, 1995, p. 18, under lot 7.
Valérie Bajou and Sidonie Lemeux-Fraitot, Inventaires après décès de Gros et de Girodet: Document inédits (2002), pp. 231, 312, no. 216.
Jean-Marie Voignier, “La Fortune de Girodet,” Bulletin de la Société d’émulation de l’arrondissement de Montargis nos. 128-29 (April 2005), p. 102.
Sylvain Bellenger, “Too Learned for Us: The Destiny of a Painter Poet,” Girodet: 1767-1824, Exh. cat. (Musée du Louvre Editions, 2006), p. 40, p. 384-385 (ill.), p. 388, cat. 81.

Paris, Musée Napoléon, 1804, cat. 210.
Paris, Musée du Louvre , Girodet 1767-1824, September 22, 2005-January 2, 2006; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, February 11-April 30, 2006; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 24-August 27, 2006; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, October 12, 2006-January 21, 2007, cat. 81, ill.

The artist’s studio, estate inventory, April 11, 1925, no. 216 [see Bajou and Lemeux-Fraitot 2002]; Girodet Sale, Paris, April 11, 1825, lot 1; bought for 2050 Francs by Bellot [according to the record of sale, no. 266, see Voignier 2005]. Louis Philippe, Duc d’Orléans, later king of France (died 1850), Paris by 1826 [according to Vatout 1826]; sale, Paris, April 28, 1851, lot 51, as Le Katchef Dahouth. Turc; bought for 510 Francs by Mènet (Monet?), Brussels [according to annotated copy of the catalogue at the R.K.D., The Hague]. Mr. Gary Mayer; sold Sotheby’s, New York, February 27, 1986, lot 30 as Portrait du Katchef Dahouth, Mameluck Chrétien, de la Géorgie, Âgé de Plus de 70 Ans. Colnaghi Gallery, New York by 1987; sold to the Art Institute, 1987.

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