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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

canvas: 60 5/8 by 51 1/8 in.; 154 by 130 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated lower left: Mlle Vallayer./1774

Condition:

framed: 70 1/2 by 61 in.; 179 by 155 cm. To request a condition report, please contact Alison MacQueen ([email protected])

Literature:

Mercure de France, October 1775, vol. I, p. 193; Entretiens sur l'exposition des tableaux de l'année 1775, Paris 1775; Observations sur les Ouvrages exposés au Sallon [sic] du Louvre, ou Lettre a M. le Comte de ***, Paris 1775; La lanterne magique aux Champs-Elysées, ou Entretiens des Grands Peintres sur le Sallon de 1775 [sic], Paris 1775; J. Seznec and J. Adhémar, eds., Denis Diderot: Salons, Paris 1957-1967, vol. IV, p. 253; M. Faré, La nature morte en France: son histoire et son évolution du XVIIe au XXe siècle, Geneva 1962, vol. I, p. 178, 229, vol. II reproduced fig. 408; M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster: 1744-1818, Paris 1970, cat. no. 1, reproduced fig. 103; M. and F. Faré, La vie silencieuse en France: La nature morte au XVIIIe siècle, Paris and Fribourg 1976, reproduced fig. 345, 226; A. Sutherland Harris and L. Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles 1976, pp. 179, 346, cat. no. 53; C. B. Bailey, Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris, New Haven and London 2002, pp. 83-4, 268, reproduced p. 84, fig. 72; E. Kahng and M. Roland Michel, eds., Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette, exhibition catalogue, Dallas 2002, pp. 50-51, 65-66, 201, cat. no. 30, reproduced p. 52, fig. 22, p. 65, fig. 6.

Provenance:

Commissioned by the Abbé Joseph Marie Terray (1715-1778), Paris; His estate sale, Paris, Joullain, 20 January 1779, lot 12; Le Boeuf collection; His sale, Paris, 8 April 1783, lot 92; With Matthiesen Gallery, London, 1959; With Eugene Victor Thaw, New York, 1972; Mr. and Mrs. Roberto Polo; Their sale, Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, 20 May 1988, lot 6; There acquired by a private collector; By whom anonymously sold, New York, Christie's, 31 January 1997, lot 102; There acquired by the present collector.