Swiss art market, E. Holzscheiter, Meilen, Switzerland, ca. 1930

Recognized as La Tour by Kurt Meissner and Herbert Bier, ca. 1950

[Vitale Bloch, 1954]

[Galeries des Tourettes, Paris, by 1955]

[M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1955]

Roscoe and Margaret Oakes, San Francisco, 1956 [1]

Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1975


[1] On loan to the de Young Museum 1956-1972 and to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 1972-1975

1956-1957, Rome. Palazzo delle Esposizioni. ”Il Seicento Europeo, realismo, classicismo, barocco,” 15 November 1956 - 31 January 1957, nos. 158-159.

1971-1972, Cleveland Museum of Art. ”Caravaggio and His Followers,” 27 October 1971 - 2 January 1972, nos. 40-41, repr.

1972, Paris. Musée de l'Orangerie. ”Georges de La Tour,” 10 May - 25 September, nos. 1-2, repr.

1977-1978, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ”Georges de La Tour in California,” 15 December 1977 - 31 January 1978, no catalogue.

1978-1979, Denver-New York-Minneapolis. ”Masterpieces of French Art: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.” Denver Art Museum, 26 December 1978 - 18 February 1979; New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., 14 March - 27 April 1979; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 24 May - 1 July 1979, no. 25-26.

1982, Paris-New York-Chicago. ”La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines,” Paris, Grand Palais, 29 January - 26 April. ”France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth Century French Painting in American Collections,” New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26 May - 22 August; The Art Institute of Chicago, 18 September - 28 November, no. 35-36, repr.
1996-1997, Washington D.C.-Fort Worth. ”Georges de la Tour and His World: Masterpieces in Focus,” Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, 6 October 1996 - 5 January 1997; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 1 February 1997 - 10 May 1997.

Maria Marzola. ”Jean le Clerc.” Thesis, lstituto di Storia dell' Arte, Padua, 1949-1950, n.p.

Vitale Bloch. ”Georges de La Tour Once Again.” Burlington Magazine 96, no. 612 (March 1954): pp. 81-82, figs. 16-17.

Michel Florisoone. ”Chronique de l'art ancien et moderne: Sur quelques récents problèmes de la peinture des XVIIe et XVIlle siècles.” Revue des Arts, no. 4 (December 1954): p. 253, figs. 6-7.

Giuseppe Fiocco. ”Due quadri di Georges de La Tour.” Paragone 5, no. 55 (July 1954): pp. 38-48, figs. 20a-b.

François-Georges Pariset. ”Mise en point–provisoire–sur Georges de La Tour.” Cahiers de Bordeaux, Journées Internationales d'Etudes d'Art (1955): pp. 86-87.

Anthony Blunt. Art and Architecture in France, 1500 to 1700. London: Penguin Books, 1957, p. 270 (note 165).

Georges Isarlo. ”A Rome: L’exposition du XVIIe siècle.” Combat-Art, 4 February 1957, p. 2, repr.

Hugh Honour. ”17th-Century Art in Europe.” The Connoisseur 139, no. 559 (March 1957): p. 34, repr.

Time (4 March 1957): pp. 74-75, repr. in color.

Milton Gendel. ”Rome and Baroque Europe.” Art News 56, no. 2 (April 1957): p. 50.

Georges Cattaui. ”L’exposition du ‘seicento’ à Rome.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 49 (April 1957): pp. 244-245, figs. 5-6.

Helen Comstock. ”The Connoisseur in America: Paintings by Georges de La Tour.” The Connoisseur 140, no. 563 (September 1957): pp. 70-71, repr.

F. Grossmann. ”A Painting by Georges de La Tour in the Collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm.” Burlington Magazine 100, no. 660 (March 1958): p. 91 (note 21).

Georges Isarlo. ”Le prétendu 'Siècle de Louis XIV' à Londres.” Combat-Art, 3 May 1958, p. 2.

François-Georges Pariset. ”Georges de La Tour.” In Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1959.

François-Georges Pariset. ”Y a-t-il affinité entre l'art espagnol et Georges de La Tour?” Velázquez, son temps, son influence: Actes du Colloque tenu à la Casa de Velázquez (7-10 December 1960). Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1963, p. 56.

European Works of Art in the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum. San Francisco: Diablo Press, 1966, p. 110, repr.

Hidemichi Tanaka. ”L'œuvre de Georges de La Tour.” PhD diss., Université de Strasbourg, 1969, p. 181.

Agnes Szigethi. Georges de la Tour. Budapest: Corvina Kiado, 1971, figs. 6-7.

Hidemichi Tanaka. ”The Exhibition of Georges de La Tour in Paris.” Mizué, no. 813 (November 1972): pp. 80-84.

Benedict Nicolson. ”Caravaggesques at Cleveland.” Burlington Magazine 114, no. 827 (February 1972): p. 117.

Anthony Blunt. ”Georges de La Tour at the Orangerie.” Burlington Magazine 114, no. 833 (August 1972): p. 519 (note 13) and 523, fig. 1.

François-Georges Pariset. ”L’exposition de Georges de La Tour à l'Orangerie, Paris.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 80, no. 1245 (October 1972): p. 207.

Mahonri Sharp Young. ”The Ruin of Painting.” Burlington Magazine 95, no. 119 (January 1972): p. 62, figs. 7-8.

Jacques Thuillier. ”Georges de La Tour: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow.” Art News 71, no. 4 (Summer 1972): pp. 26-27, repr.

F. Grossmann. ”Some Observations on Georges de La Tour and the Netherlandish Tradition.” Burlington Magazine 115, no. 846 (September 1973): p. 579.

François-Georges Pariset. ”L'exposition Georges de La Tour.” Le Pays Lorrain, no. 2 (1973): p. 63, repr.

Pierre Rosenberg and François Macé de Lépinay. Georges de La Tour: Vie et œuvre. Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1973, pp. 90-91, nos. 2-3, 15, repr.

Jacques Thuillier. L'opera completa di Georges de La Tour. Milan: Rizzoli; Tout l'œuvre peint de Georges de La Tour. Paris: Flammarion, 1973, p. 87, nos. 2-3, color pls. 1-2.

Julius S. Held. ”The Emergence of Georges de La Tour.” Art in America 61, no. 4 (July - August 1973): pp. 86-87.

Benedict Nicolson and Christopher Wright. Georges de La Tour. London: Phaidon Press, 1974, pp. 17-18, 27, nos. 61-62 on 196-197, pls. 4-7, fig. 11.

Ferdinando Bologna. ”A New Work from the Youth of La Tour.” Burlington Magazine 117, no. 868 (1975): pp. 437-439, fig. 17.

Richard E. Spear. Caravaggio and His Followers. New York: Harper & Row, 1975, pp. 120-122, repr., and 228.

Erich Schleier. Georges de La Tour (1593-1652): Essendes Bauernpaar Neuerwerbung. Berlin: Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen, 1976, n.p., fig. 2.

Erich Schleier. ”Georges de La Tour: Essendes Bauernpaar, Zu einer Neuerwerbung der Gemäldegalerie.” Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Berlin: Gebrüder Mann, 1976, p. 236, fig. 88 on 232.

Jean-Luc Bordeaux. ”Un musée français en Californie.” Connaissance des Arts, no. 299 (January 1977): pp. 36, 38, repr.

Christopher Wright. Georges de La Tour. London: Phaidon Press, 1977, pls. 2-3 (color).

Martha Kellogg Smith. ”Georges de La Tour's 'Old Man' and 'Old Woman' in San Francisco,” Burlington Magazine 121, no. 914 (May 1979): pp. 288-293.

Benedict Nicolson. The International Caravaggesque Movement: Lists of Pictures by Caravaggio and His Followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1640. London: Phaidon Press, 1979, p. 65.

Art News (April 1979): p. 5, repr., advt.

Thomas P. Lee. ”Recently Acquired French Paintings: Reflections on the Past.” Apollo 111, no. 217 (March 1980): pp. 218, 215, figs. 6-7.

Lila Sherman. Art Museums of America. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1980, p. 36.

Babbette Fromme. Curators' Choice: An Introduction to the Art Museums of the U.S. New York: Crown Publishers, 1981, p. 59, repr. on 58.

Helen Langdon. The Simon and Schuster Pocket Art Museum Guide: A Guide to Collections of Western Art from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981, p. 155.

Christopher Wright. Italian, French, and Spanish Paintings of the 17th Century. London: Frederick Warne Ltd., 1981, p. 26.

F. Roy Willis. World Civilizations. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Company, 1982, p. 898, repr.

Ekkehard Mai. ”Ausstellung: La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans collectiones américaines.” Pantheon 40, no. 2 (April - June 1982): p. 153.

Jean Pierre Cuzin. ”New York, French Seventeenth-Century Paintings from American Collections.” Burlington Magazine 124, no. 953 (August 1982): p. 529.

John Russell. ”French Masters at the Met.” New York Times (4 June 1982): p. 15, repr.

William R. Wilson. The Los Angeles Times Book of California Museums. New York: Abrams, 1985, p. 70, figs. 56-57 (color).

Christopher Wright. The Art of the Forger. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985, pp. 14, 15, repr.

Christopher Wright. The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1985, pp. 201 (both attr.): 285.

Thomas Hoving. ”The Grand Tour.” Connoisseur (February 1987): p. 96.

Pierre Rosenberg and Marion C. Stewart. French Paintings 1500-1825: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1987, pp. 60-64, repr.Rosenberg, Pierre and Marina Mojana, Georges de la Tour: Catalogo completo dei dipinti, Florence: Cantini, 1992, pgs. 27-29, cat. no. 8.