LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

43.70 in. (111.00 cm.) (height) by 61.42 in. (156.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated lower left: Mlle. Vallayer 1777

Exhibited:

Paris, Salon, 1777, no. 101 (lent by Madame Vissitier);. Paris, Galerie Heim, . Hommage à Chardin , 6 June-10 July 1959, no. 84, reproduced pl. 38;. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, . Women Artists, 1550-1950 , 21 December 1976-13 March 1977, no. 54

Literature:

Lettres pittoresques à l'occasion des tableaux exposés au Salon en 1777 , chez Gueffier, Paris, 1777, 7th letter (collection Deloynes, no. 190, pp. 35-6);. E. Dacier, . Catalogue de ventes et livrets de Salons illustrés par Gabriel de Saint-Aubin , Paris 1909-1921, IV, pp. 20-1, illustrated;. J. Seznec and Jean Adhémar, eds., . Denis Diderot. Les Salons , Paris, 1967, IV, Salons de 1769, 1771, 1775, 1781, p. 201;. M. Faré, . La Nature Morte en France. Son histoire et son évolution du XVIIe au XX siècle , Geneva, 1962, I, p. 222; II, reproduced pl. 426;. M. Roland Michel, . Anne Vallayer Coster , Paris, 1970, pp. 187-8, no. 264;. M. and F. Faré, . La Vie Silencieuse en France. La nature morte au XVIIIe siècle , Fribourg and Paris, 1976, pp. 223, 229, reproduced pl. 356;. A. Sutherland Harris and L. Nochlin, . Women Artists, 1550-1950 , exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles 1977, no. 54;. C. Grimm, . Natures Mortes italiennes, espagnoles et francaises' 1996, p. 79, reproduced;. E. Kahng and M. Roland Michel, . Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette , Dallas Museum of Art, 2002, p. 203, no. 44

Provenance:

Madame Vissitier, by 1777;. Vicomte G. Chabert;. His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 5 June 1909, lot 12 (with its pendant . Still life with porcelain vase, marine plants, shells, and various mineralogical specimens as lot 11);. Anonymous sale, Paris Hôtel Drouot, 9 June 1923, lot 15;. Madame Potin;. By whom sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 April 1929, lot 25 (25,000 francs);. Marcel Midy;. Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 7 March 1941, lot 15 (22,000 francs);. Anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 15 December 1959, lot 30 (1,100,000 francs);. With Wildenstein, New York;. There acquired by James Ling, Dallas, Texas in 1968;. LTV Steel Corporation, Dallas, Texas;. Mr. Rege Gold, DuBois, Pennsylvania;. Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 9 July 1993, lot 45 (£119,100);. There acquired by a private collector;. By whom sold ("Property of a Private Collector"), London, Christie's, 7 December 2010, lot 35 for £262,250 ($419,168