LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

15.75 in. (40.00 cm.) (height) by 20.91 in. (53.10 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Heim, Hommage à Chardin, 5 June-10 July 1959, no. 32.

Literature:

M. Faré, La nature morte en France, Geneva, 1962, II, unpaginated, no. 306, fig. 306. G. de Lastic, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint et dessiné de François Desportes, PhD dissertation, Paris, 1969, no. 1038. P. Jacky, François Desportes (1661-1743), PhD dissertation, Paris, 1999, III, pp. 525-526. G. de Lastic and P. Jacky, Desportes Catalogue Raisonné, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 2010, II, p. 82, no. P353.

Provenance:

Eugène Tondu; his sale (†), Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 April 1865 (=1st day), lot 68. Anonymous sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 6 December 1957 (=2nd day), lot 163. Private collection, Paris. with François Heim, New York, from whom acquired in October 1959 by the late owner.