Marguerite Gérard
An Architect and His Family
1781-1791
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Marguerite Gérard
An Architect and His Family
1781-1791
Physical Qualities
Oil on wood panel, 12 x 9 1/2 in. (30.5 x 24.1 cm.)
Credit Line
The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection
Object Number
1938.232
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1938; from Mary Frick Jacobs (1851-1936), Baltimore; purchased from dealer Eugène Fischhoff, Paris, June 1909; from Felix Doistau sale, Galerie Georges Petit, June 9-11, 1909, no. 46; Felix Doistau (1846-1936), Paris.
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Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue des Tableaux & Pastels (Doisteau sale), Paris, June 9-11, 1909, p. 28, no. 46, ill.
Henry Barton Jacobs, The Collection of Mary Frick Jacobs (Baltimore) 1938), pl. 24.
A Century of Baltimore Collecting, 1840-1940, exh. cat. (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1941), p. 60.
News: Baltimore Museum of Art, (November 1947), pp. 1-3, cover ill.
“"Object of the Week,” The Baltimore Sun, (Sunday, Jul 21, 1957), ill.
G. Levetine, “Marguerite Gérard and Her Stylistic Significance,” BMA Annual III, Studies in Honor of Gerturde Rosenthal, I, (1968), pp. 21-31, ill. p. 20.
Ann Sutherland Harris and Linda Nochlin, Women artists, 1550-1950. exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976).
Gertrude Rosenthal, “The Architect Ledoux and His Family,” BMA News, (November 1973), pp. 1-3, ill. on cover.
Sally Wells-Robertson, “Marguerite Gérard: 1761-1837,” Vol. 2, Pt. 2, (unpublished doctoral dissertation, 1978), cat. 115, p. 899.
Carole Blumenfeld, “Marguerite Gérard,” Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, 52 (Munich, 2006), Vol.II, p.16.
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Marguerite Gérard: Artiste en 1789, dans l'atelier de Fragonard (Paris, France: Musée Cognacq-Jay, 2009), no. 63, pp. 198-199. (entry by Carole Blumenfeld)
Dominique Massounie, La Saline Royale de Claude Nicolas Ledoux (Paris: Editions du Patrimoine, Centre des Monuments Nationaux) 2016, plate 6, p. 18.
Carole Blumenfeld, Marguerite Gérard 1761-1837 (Montreuil, France: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2019), pp.190-191 color ill, 219 no. 72P. (English Edition)
Carole Blumenfeld, Marguerite Gérard 1761-1837 (Montreuil, France: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2019), pp.190-191 color ill, 219 no. 72P. (French Edition)
Whitney Chadwick, Women, Art, and Society, Sixth edition (London: Thames and Hudson) 2020, no. 78 ill.
Jasmine Shah, “Marguerite Gérard January 28, 1761 – May 18, 1837” A Space of Their Own, https://artmusem.sitehost.iu.edu/space-of-their-own/artists/20 (Accessed May 8, 2025)