Portrait of Ruamps de Surgères
Jean-Louis Laneuville (French, 1748–1826)

Possibly the collection of the sitter, Pierre-Charles Ruamps (1750–1808);
Possibly by descent to his son, Jean-Pierre Ruamps (d. 1866);
Possibly by descent with his estate to his cousin, Mme Durand de Coupé, March 1866.
Paul Arthur Chéramy (1840–1912), Paris, by 1908;
Purchased at his sale, Paris, May 5–7, 1908, lot 83, by M. Renard.
M. Lévasque in 1913 [1];
With Séligmann and Company, New York, by December 1954–November 19, 1960 [2];
Purchased from Séligmann and Company by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1960.

[1] This owner lent the work to the exhibition David et ses élèves, Petit Palais, Paris, April–June 1913, no. 194.

[2] On December 10, 1954, Germain Seligman wrote a letter describing his research on the painting, which was in his possession. This document is conserved in the Service de la documentation des peintures, Musée du Louvre, Paris (boîtes Laneuville).

Galerie Petit, Paris, May 1908, no. 83.

David et ses élèves, Petit Palais, Paris, April–June 1913, no. 194.

Profiles and Perspectives in 19th Century French Art, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, January 14–February 26, 1958, no. 15.

The Winds of Revolution, Wildenstein & Co., New York, November 12, 1989–January 19, 1990, no. 63.

Picturing French Style: Three Hundred Years of Art and Fashion, Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, September 6, 2002–January 12, 2003; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, February 4–April 27, 2003, no. 21.

Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.

David et ses élèves (Paris: Petit Palais, 1913), 52.

Profiles and Perspectives in 19th Century French Art, exh. cat. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1958), no. 15.

French Painting 1774–1830: The Age of Revolution, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1975), 523.

Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 64, 65, 66, (repro.).

Joseph Baillio, The Winds of Revolution, exh. cat. (New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1989), 69–70.

Graham W. J. Beal et. al., Fifty Favorites from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1994), 26–27, (repro.).

Jill Berk Jiminez, Picturing French Style: Three Hundred Years of Art and Fashion, exh. cat. (Mobile: Mobile Museum of Art, 2002), 68–69.

Valérie Laverge-Durey, Jean-Louis Titon La Neuville, dit Laneuville (1756–1826): Portraitiste et marchand-expert (Vizille: Musée de la Révolution française, 2014), no. 18.

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 26, 116–17, (repro.).