ANTOINE-JEAN GROS
(1771 Paris – Meudon 1835)
Portrait of the Countess of Laselle and Her Daughter
Oil on canvas
250 x 175 cm
285 x 210 cm framed
Signed lower left: Gros.
Musée de l’Armée.
Origin :
Countess de Lasalle collection; Joséphine-Charlotte Yermoloff, née de Lasalle collection; Hélène Yermoloff, Marquise de Podenas collection, granddaughter of General de Lasalle; her niece, Ghislaine Hollande, née Berthier de Lasalle collection; Jean Hollande collection and his descendants
Exhibitions :
Salon of 1812, no. 448; Salon of 1814, no. 479; Gros. His friends. His pupils, Paris, Petit Palais, 1936, no. 60.
Bibliography :
Truth at the Salon of 1812, or an impartial critique of paintings and sculptures by a society of artists, Paris, 1812, cited p. 20; RJ Durdent, Gallery of French painters at the Salon of 1812, or a critical overview of their principal paintings and of the various works of sculpture, architecture and engraving , Paris, 1813, cited pp. 69-70; J.-B. Delestre, Gros, his life and his works, Paris, 1867, p. 161; J. Tripier-Lefranc, History of the life and death of Baron Gros, Paris, 1880, p. 297; GA Robinet de Clery, From Essling to Wagram, Lasalle , Paris, 1891, p. 208; Gros. His friends. His students, Paris, Petit Palais, 1936, no. 60, pp. 83-84; G. Hubert, “Notes on some sculptures in the Napoleonic museum of Île d’Aix” in Homage to Hubert Landais, Paris, 1987, cited p. 251.