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Public
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Creator
Troy, Jean-François de, 1679-1752
Culture
French (culture or style)
Title
The Guitar Player
Alternative title: Femme à la guitare
Work Type
Painting
Date
First half of 18th century
18th century
Material
Oil on canvas
Measurements
34 x 29 1/8 in. (86.3 x 74.1 cm); with frame: 41 3/4 x 36 7/8 in. (106.4 x 93.6 cm)
Repository
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Avery Art Properties
Accession Number
2016.01.000
Collection
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library: Art Properties (Phase 1)
Genre Type
Portraits
Primary Classification
Paintings (visual works)
Credit line
Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Gift of Harry and Gina Zelnick
Provenance
Possibly Nicolas Vennevault, Paris; his deceased sale, Paris, March 26, 1776, lot 1, ("Une femme pinçant de la guitarre, demi-figure de grandeur naturelle, par J.B. de Troy..."); Anonymous sale, Berlin, Cassirer and Helbing, November 6, 1929, lot 57 (as by Charles-André Vanloo); Friedrich Frey-Fürst, Switzerland (where it decorated the Hotel Bürgenstock, Lake Lucerne); Thence by descent to his son, Fritz Frey, Switzerland; By whom sold (...The Bürgenstock, the Property of Fritz Frey), Sotheby's London, December 11, 1996, lot 211 (as Attributed to Jean Raoux), for £11,500; Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, May 29, 2003, lot 141; Harry and Gina Zelnick; Donated by the Zelnicks to Columbia University in 2016
CLIO BIB ID
12003839
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Avery_AP_4353_002_crop.jpg
SSID
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