LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

37.3 x 45 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 'J Chardin / 1730'

Exhibited:

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Stenmans 1913-1938, 1938, no. 9.Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Frankrike genom konstnrsgon, 9 May-2 June 1941, no. 299.Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, 100 sekel Fransk konst, 15 August-9 November 1958, no. 77, as 'unknown artist'.Paris, Grand Palais; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Chardin, 29 January-19 November 1979, no. 141, as 'Chardin (?)' (this painting only in Paris).

Literature:

E. Goldschmidt, Jean-Baptiste Simon Chardin, Stockholm, 1945, pp. 66-71, fig. 16. E. Goldschmidt, Jean-Baptiste Simon Chardin, Copenhagen, 1947, unpaginated, fig. 17.P. Rosenberg, Chardin: New Thoughts. The Franklin Murphy Lectures I, Kansas, 1983, pp. 78-83.P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Chardin, Paris, 1983, p. 79, no. 50.E. Launay, Les frres Goncourt, collectionneurs de dessins, Paris, 1991, p. 253, under no. 46.

Provenance:

Private collection, England.Gsta Stenman(1888-1947), by 1938, and by descent to, Bertha Stenman (1890-1969), Stockholm, by 1958. Anonymous sale; Norden Auktioner AB, Stockholm, 29 May 1997, lot 61.Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 December 2004, lot 48, where acquired by the present owner.