Madame de Flesselles,

1747

(Sale, collections of M. Huot-Fragonard and M. X..., Paris, May 19-20, 1876, no. 77 [as "Mme. la comtesse de Flesselles sous la figure allegorique d'une source"; 16,000 francs]). (Sale, baron Edmond de Beurnonville, Paris, May 9-16, 1881, no. 134 [repro. as 'Mme de Flesselles'; 45,000 francs to dealer Brame]). Alphonse Allard [1831-1900]. Brussels, in 1883; his brother-in-law, Prosper Crabbe [1887-1889], Brussels; (his sale, Paris, Galerie Sedelmeyer, June 12, 1890, no. 40 [repro.: 75,000 francs to Rickoff"]): Rickoff collection, Paris until at least 1894. William Rockefeller (1841-1922); by inheritance to Mrs. Clinch Tate (nee Elaine Rockefeller McAlpin, 1905-1986); 1964 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.

Elisabeth de Flesselles en Source

• Henry de Chennevieres, "Exposition de l'art du XVIIIe siècle", Gazette des beaux-arts 29 (n.s. 2) (1884): p. 166-173., p. 168
• Catalogue of the celebrated collection of paintings by modern and ancient masters formed by the late Senator Prosper Crabbe of Brussels: which will be sold by auction at the Sedelmeyer Galleries: Thursday June 12, 1890 ... under the management of Charles Sedelmeyer, assisted by Arthur Stevens: public auctioneer, Me. Paul Chevallier, (Paris: Sedelmeyer Galleries, 1890)., no. 40
• Catalogue de l'exposition de Marie-Antoinette et son temps, (Paris: Sedelmeyer Gallery, 1894)., p. 44, no. 137
• Bernard Prost and Paul Mantz, "J. M. Nattier", Gazette des beaux-arts 11 (n.s. 3) (1894): p. 92-114; 12 (n.s. 3) (1894): p. 435-448; (illus.), p. 110

• "Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 23, no. 2 (1964): p. 34-55.

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• Patrick J. Kelleher, "College museum notes" Art journal 24, no. 1 (Autumn, 1964): p. 52-70., p. 52
• "Acquisitions of 1964", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 24, no. 1 (1965): p. 20-23., p. 22
• Susanne K. Langer, "The social influence of design", University, no. 25 (Summer, 1965)., p. 11 (illus.)
• H.R.H., "The Art Museum at Princeton University: a selection from the collections", Art Journal 26, no. 2 (Winter, 1966-1967): p. 172+174+176+178., p. 176, fig. 11
• Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 141 (illus.)
• Xavier Salmon, Jean-Marc Nattier, 1685-1766, (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1999)., cat. no. 48
• Heather MacDonald, French Art of the Eighteenth Century: The Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture Series at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2016).