Explore the Attribution to Georges de La Tour about the Provenance of this artwork, The Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Dog.
Noticed in 1925 by Pierre Landry, who was the first to bring it closer to the works of the master then in full rediscovery, the painting was chosen by Charles Sterling to appear in an exhibition of "painters of reality" that opened in November 1934 at the l'Orangerie of the Tuileries, but still cautiously attributed to the "workshop of Georges de La Tour". Cleaned on this occasion, it remained in Paris to be completely restored. At the end of the operation, which lasted fourteen months and was graciously donated by Pierre Landry, the painting was exhibited for some time, from June 1936, in the new acquisitions room of the Musée du Louvre.
It was not until 1958 that Michel Laclotte placed The Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Dog alongside the originals from La Tour, and in particular The Hurdy-Gurdy Player in Nantes, on the occasion of the exhibition entitled The French XVII|e. Masterpieces from provincial museums. Since then, the painting has appeared in other exhibitions devoted to the painter from Lorraine, whether it be the first retrospective held from May to September 1972 at the Musée de l'Orangerie (catalogue number 3), or that of the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, from 3 October 1997 to 26 January 1998 (catalogue number 16).
Musée du Louvre l'Orangerie The Hurdy-Gurdy Player Michel Laclotte Tuileries Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Charles Sterling Louvre Musée de l'Orangerie Georges de La Tour