Aug 17, 2019

The Cailleux Project: Norton Simon Museum in Los Angeles, USA



The name "Cailleux" appears in the provenance of at least nine artworks in the Norton Simon Museum:




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Accession_NbrTitleArtistProvenance
F.1983.07.1.PRest of the ShepherdsJean-Baptiste Deshays de CollevilleMme. Cécile Sorel (sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6-7 December 1928,
lot 8, ill., as Le Repos des Bergers, to);Stettiner.(sale, Paris, Pavillon Gabriel, 17 June 1977, lot 15, ill., as Le repos des
bergers, to);[Jean Cailleux, Paris, buying for];Norton Simon, Los Angeles, gift 1983 to;The Norton Simon Foundation.
F.1983.07.2.PWasherwomanJean-Baptiste Deshays de CollevilleMme. Cécile Sorel (sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6-7 December 1928,
lot 8, ill., as Le Repos des Bergers, to);Stettiner.(sale, Paris, Pavillon Gabriel, 17 June 1977, lot 15, ill., as Le repos des
bergers, to);[Jean Cailleux, Paris, buying for];Norton Simon, Los Angeles, gift 1983 to;The Norton Simon Foundation.
F.1970.04.PJupiter and SemeleJean-Baptiste Deshays de CollevillePrince Anatole Nicolaievitch Demidoff, Principe di San Donato (1812-1870),
San Donato (near Florence), succeeded by nephew;Prince Paul Pavlovitch Demidoff, Principe di San Donato, (sale, Florence,
1880 March 15, lot 782).Emile de Girardin (1806-1881), Paris (sale, Paris, Escribe and Cailleux,
1883 May 24-28, lot 3).Private collection, Englewood, New Jersey, to;[Ira Spanierman, New York, sold 1970 to;]Norton Simon Foundation.
M.2010.1.174.PPortrait of Diane de PoitiersSchool of Fontainebleau[Wildenstein, Paris, by 1939];(sale, Paris, Palais d’Orsay, 13 June 1978, lot 18, as École de
Fontainebleau, XVI siècle, Portrait dit de Diane de Poitiers, to);[Galerie Cailleux, Paris, buying for];Norton Simon, by bequest to;Jennifer Jones Simon Art Trust, to;Norton Simon Art Foundation.



M.1980.06.2.P Female Satyr with Tambourine, Child and a PuttoGiovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696-1770)
Conte Luigi Avogadro, Brescia, by 1760, by inheritance to his niece;Paola Avogadro Fenaroli (d. 1800), Brescia, by inheritance to;Bartolomeo Fenaroli, Brescia, by inheritance to;Girolamo Fenaroli, Brescia (1827-1880, when the collection was dispersed).Pierre and Marie-Marguerite Lebaudy (née Marie-Marguerite Luzarche d’Azay,
1871-1962) possibly as early as 1900, (sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, 15
June 1962, lot 4, ill., as Faunesse, 59.5 x 96 cm., and lot 5, as Faunesse
et amours, 59 x 97 cm., to);[Galerie Cailleux, Paris, sold 26 February 1980 to];Norton Simon Art Foundation.
M.2010.1.196.P At the Evening Party: Woman in White with a FanJean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
De Chaumont.[?Galerie Brâme, Paris, acquired 11 April 1900, sold 11 April 1900 to];[?Galerie Raphaël] Gérard.Alfred Beurdeley (sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 2-4 June 1920, lot
139, ill., as “En Soirée; femme blonde à l’éventail,” to);[Galerie Brâme, Paris].Beurdeley (sale, Paris, Palais D’Orsay, 16 May 1979, lot 120, color ill.,
as “En Soiree, femme blonde a l’eventail,” to);[Galerie Cailleux, Paris, buying for];Norton Simon, by bequest to;Jennifer Jones Simon Art Trust, to;Norton Simon Art Foundation.
F.1981.2.P The Cloister of the Augustinian NunsHubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)
Vicomte G. Chabert (sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 5 June 1909, lot
10, ill., as Le Cloître, for Ff 9,500, to);Jonas, buying for;Mr. Charley.le Comte Etienne de J., by 1922.Société “Styles” (sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 4 December 1922, lot
19, ill., as Le Cloître, for Ff 24,000, to);Revel.Montesquiou;Comtesse de Chavagnac;Descent of Montesquiou-Fezensac, sold 1979 to;[Galerie Cailleux, Geneva, sold 12 May 1981, in partnership with E. V. Thaw
& Co., Inc., New York, to];The Norton Simon Foundation.

M.2010.1.171.P
RemembranceClaude-Marie Dubufe (French, 1790-1864)(sale, Paris, Palais d’Orsay, 13 June 1978, lot 17, ill., as L’attente, to);[Galerie Cailleux, Paris, buying for];Norton Simon, by bequest to;Jennifer Jones Simon Art Trust, to;Norton Simon Art Foundation.




M.2010.1.170.P RegretsClaude-Marie Dubufe (French, 1790-1864)(sale, Paris, Palais d’Orsay, 13 June 1978, lot 17, as La déception, to);[Galerie Cailleux, Paris, buying for];Norton Simon, by bequest to;Jennifer Jones Simon Art Trust, to;Norton Simon Art Foundation.


Names that appear in the provenance together with Cailleux include:

According to TextRazor (automatic, includes some entity recognition errors)

Frequent words that appear in the Cailleux provenances (Voyant-Tools)

bergers
donato
demidoff
jones
petit
sorel
stettiner
wildenstein
englewood
escribe
girardin
nicolaievitch
pavlovitch
private
spanierman

Wikipedia pages of people or organizations named in the Cailleux provenances (it should be noted that very few have Wikipedia pages)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Simon_Museum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brame_%26_Lorenceau_Gallery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Petit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Stettiner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Wildenstein


and other sources...(update ongoing)

Thaw, Eugene Victor




As the names and words that appear together in the various Cailleux provenance texts are collected, an image of the art dealing networks which involve a Cailleux should gradually emerge. 

For more information on The Cailleux Provenance Project, please see:



"Cailleux in the provenance of artworks listed by the German Lost Art Foundation", OpenArtData, Aug 12, 2019   permalink 

"Cailleux in the 1976 Toledo European Paintings Catalog"OpenArtData, Aug 9, 2019 permalink

"The Cailleux Project: Digital Tools to Analyze Art Provenance Texts", OpenArtData, Aug 5, 2019 permalink

"What does it mean to find Cailleux in art provenance research?", OpenArtData, Aug 2019 permalink

"Provenance research: Paul Cailleux  NEPIP", OpenArtData, June 1, 2018 permalink

"Networks of Gustav Rochlitz"OpenArtData, January 2, 2019 permalink


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