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Trompe l'Oeil

 (Swiss, 1702–1789)
Date1771
MediumOil on silk transferred to canvas
Dimensions9 3/8 × 12 3/4 in. (23.8 × 32.4 cm)
Credit LineBequeathed by Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolph J. Heinemann, 1997
Accession number1997.1.182
Collection History

Jean-Étienne Liotard, London, 1773. His sale, London, April 15, 1774, Lot 74, bought by the second Earl of Bessborough for £10 10s. William Ponsonby, second Earl of Bessborough. Or, bought by the second Earl of Clanbrassil and by descent to the Earl of Roden. Captain the Rt. Hon. the eighth Earl of Roden, R.N. His sale, Sotheby’s, London, March 6, 1957, Lot 175, sold for £1,550 to Edward Speelman. Vitale Bloch, The Hague and Paris. Lore and Dr. Rudolf Heinemann, New York. Bequeathed to The Frick Collection by Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann, 1997.

Source: The Frick Collection: Drawings, Prints & Later Acquisitions. Volume IX. New York: The Frick Collection, 2003.

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