JACQUES DUMONT, called DUMONT THE ROMAN. 1701-1781

62 BEGGAR WOMAN WITH CHILDREN (SAVOYARDE). 1737

Oil on canvas. 66 X 52 cm. Inv. No 3018 Signed and dated: du Mont 1737

This is a companion picture to Strolling Musician (Savoyard) (The Hermitage, Inv. No 3546). The picture was etched by Dumont himself; J. Daulle completed the engraving with a burin.

Provenance: until 1790 The Collection of Marquis de Livois, Paris; 1920 Private collection, Petrograd; since 1937 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1748 Paris (Salon); 1922—25 Petrograd Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 56; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, pp. 79—80; А. Бенуа, "Картина Ж. Дюмона Ромэна в Эрмитаже", Сборник Эрмитажа, 1923, 2, р. 103, ill.; Ernst 1928, p. 247; Reau 1929, p. 27; R. Planchenault, "La Collection du marquis de Livois", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 10, 1933, pp. 22, 23, 226; B. Lossky, "CEuvres anciennement connues ou nouvellement retrouvees de Jacques Dumont le Ro-main aux musees de Tours", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 64, 1964, p. 230

62 BEGGAR WOMAN WITH CHILDREN (SAVOYARDE). 1737