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Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

22.05 in. (56.00 cm.) (height) by 18.50 in. (47.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 'Melle Vallayer 1776' (lower center)

Exhibited:

Rotterdam, Musée Boymans, Quatre siècles de nature morte française, 1954, no. 61. Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Autour du néoclassicisme, 1973, no. 48. Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Eloge de l'ovale, 1975, no. 40

Literature:

E. Schlumberge, 'Anne Vallayer-Coster', Connaissance des Arts, March 1958, p. 68. M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster, 1970, no. 65. G. Schurr, 'Art Dispatch from Europe', Connoisseur, CLXXVII, no. 714, August 1971, p. 307, fig. 5. Apollo, XCIV, October 1971, p. 97, illustrated. E. Kahng and M. Roland Michel, et al., Anne Vallayer-Coster, painter to the Court of Marie Antoinette, exhibition catalogue, Washington, Dallas, New York, 2002-03, p. 203, no. 43, illustrated

Provenance:

Cesare Lanza, Geneva. with Galerie Cailleux, Paris, by 1971, where acquired by the father of the present owner