Young Woman with a Muff

Dated to 1750, this French 18th-century oil-on-canvas portrait traces its ownership to the collection of Principe Sciarra in Rome, possibly Maffeo Barberini Colonna di Sciarra. By 1904, the work was held by Barone Michele Angelo Lazzaroni in Rome and Paris, who lent it to an exhibition in Brussels that year. In 1906, Lazzaroni sold the painting to the Ehrich Galleries in New York, which subsequently transferred it to Mrs. Whitelaw Reid (Elisabeth Mills) of Ophir Hall, Purchase, New York, in 1913.

Following Reid's death, the painting was sold at her estate auction by the American Art Association and Anderson Galleries on May 17, 1935. It was acquired by Chester Dale of New York, who bequeathed it as a gift to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1943.

The painting is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where it was accessioned in 1943 as a gift from Chester Dale. Prior to this donation, the work entered the Dale collection in 1935 following an estate sale at the American Art Association and Anderson Galleries in New York. The piece was previously owned by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and acquired by her in 1913 from the Ehrich Galleries, who had purchased it in 1906 from Barone Michele Angelo Lazzaroni.

Lazzaroni had lent the work to an exhibition in Brussels in 1904, marking a documented instance of its public display before its acquisition by American collectors.