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Cailleux

Portrait of a Woman with a Corsage of Blue Flowers
Paul Cailleux also known as Paul de Cayeux and the Marquis de Cayeux, was the president of the French art dealers association. In 1946 his name appears on the Art Looting Investigation Unit's Red Flag list of names with the following mention:



Cailleux, Paul. Paris, 136 rue du Fbg St Honore. Dealer in contact with Rochlitz, Wuester, Frau Dietrich, Haberstock. Knew Lohse, who claims to have freed his wife from a concentration camp. Authority on 18th century French art. President of the Art Dealers Association, Paris. 


The name "Cailleux"  appears in the ownership history of numerous artworks, some of which have gaps or uncertainties in the provenance between 1933-1945.

Here are a few examples from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (not currently on view).



Portrait of a Woman with a Corsage of Blue Flowers

Jean Baptiste Perronneau (French, 1715–1783)

DIMENSIONS: 42.5 x 52.1 cm (16 3/4 x 20 1/2 in.)

ACCESSION NUMBER: 65.2665

MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE: Pastel on paper

NOT ON VIEW

COLLECTIONS: EuropePrints and Drawings

CLASSIFICATIONS:Pastels


Signed

Upper right: Perronneau

Provenance

By 1935, Galerie Paul Cailleux, Paris; May 8, 1935, sold by Cailleux to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York, Newport, RI, and Boston; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 8, 1969)

Credit Line

Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

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Portrait of a Boy

late 18th century
Follower of Joseph Ducreux (French, 1735–1802)

DIMENSIONS: 54.6 x 45.6 cm (21 1/2 x 17 15/16 in.)

ACCESSION NUMBER: 65.2641

MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE: Oil on canvas

NOT ON VIEW

COLLECTIONS: Europe

CLASSIFICATIONS: Paintings

Provenance

1936, Galerie Paul Cailleux, Paris; May 8, 1936, sold by Cailleux to Forsyth Wickes, (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession date: January 8, 1969)

Credit Line

Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

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Louis XV as a Young Man

Rosalba Giovanna Carriera (Italian (Venetian), 1675–1757)

DIMENSIONS: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)

ACCESSION NUMBER: 65.2655

MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE: Pastel on paper

NOT ON VIEW

COLLECTIONS: EuropePrints and Drawings

CLASSIFICATIONS: Pastels

Provenance

1937, Galerie Paul Cailleux, Paris; September 22, 1937, sold by Cailleux to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York, Newport, RI, and Boston [see note 1]; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 8, 1969)
NOTES:
[1] Letter from Marianne Roland Michel of the Galerie Paul Cailleux to Eric M. Zafran of the MFA (February 19, 1990), in the MFA curatorial file.

Credit Line

Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
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Presumed Portrait of Mademoiselle Duthé with Her Harp

Mademoiselle Duthé with her Harp

undated
Jacques Antoine Marie Lemoine (French, 1751–1824)

DIMENSIONS: Framed: (Round) 73.7 x 59.7 x 5.1 cm (29 x 23 1/2 x 2 in.) Overall: 52.6 x 42.9cm (20 11/16 x 16 7/8in.)

ACCESSION NUMBER: 65.2583

MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE: Chalk and colored washes

NOT ON VIEW

COLLECTIONS: EuropePrints and Drawings

CLASSIFICATIONS: Drawings

Inscription

Information on back of frame

Provenance

Cailleux, Paris; October 8, 1935, purchased by Forsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA.

Credit Line

Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

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Landscape with Caryatids

Landscape with Three Peasants Chatting 
The Caryatids

Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808)

DIMENSIONS: Framed: 46 x 54 x 5.1 cm (18 1/8 x 21 1/4 x 2 in.) Other: 28.5 x 36.4 cm (11 1/4 x 14 5/16 in.)

ACCESSION NUMBER: 65.2542

MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE: Red chalk

NOT ON VIEW

COLLECTIONS: EuropePrints and Drawings

CLASSIFICATIONS: Drawings

Provenance

Galerie Cailleux, Paris; May 8, 1936, purchased by Forsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth WIckes to the MFA.

Credit Line

Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
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Portrait of Two Boys (said to be the Autichamp Brothers)

Attributed to Joseph Boze (French, 1744–1826)

DIMENSIONS

72.4 x 58.4 cm (28 1/2 x 23 in.)

ACCESSION NUMBER

65.2636

MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE

Oil on canvas

ON VIEW

Ann and William Elfers Gallery (Gallery 245)

COLLECTIONS

Europe

CLASSIFICATIONS

Paintings
Boze’s sweetly rendered portraits, usually executed in an oval format, were popular among wealthy patrons and members of the French court. But the painter—who was not an academically trained artist—found less success at the Salon, the official exhibition of Paris’s Académie des Beaux Arts; he exhibited there only once, in 1791. The children in this double‑portrait are traditionally identified as the Autichamp brothers, and most likely belonged to a Royalist family. (The older boy, Charles, later became a count.) Like other artists who aligned themselves with France’s upper class, Boze was forced to go into exile during the most violent period of the French Revolution.

Provenance

Château du Blésois. July 23, 1930, anonymous sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Orléans, France [see note 1]. Probably 1930, sold by Cailleux, Paris to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876- d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI [see note 2]; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA (Accession date: January 8, 1969)
NOTES:
[1] See Beaux-Arts, August, 1930, p 9. It sold as "Portrait d'un cadet et son jeune frère" by Greuze for 146,000 fr.
[2] According to Marianne Roland Michel of Cailleux (letter Feb 19, 1990) this painting was sold to Forsyth Wickes on March 10, 1930. However, Wickes must have purchased it on a date after the Orleans sale. The exact date on which Cailleux sold it to Wickes is unknown.

Credit Line

Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

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François Armand de Gontaut, Duc de Biron

1714
Nicolas de Largillierre (French, 1656–1746)

DIMENSIONS

138.8 x 106.7 cm (54 5/8 x 42 in.)

ACCESSION NUMBER

1981.283

MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE

Oil on canvas

NOT ON VIEW

COLLECTIONS

Europe

CLASSIFICATIONS

Paintings


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