LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas, transferred from panel

Measurements:

7.48 in. (19.00 cm.) (height) by 6.50 in. (16.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, 2003-2004, no. 31.

Literature:

G. Wildenstein, Chardin, Paris, 1933, no. 257 (as lost, known from 1926 auction record). P. Rosenberg, Chardin 1699-1779, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Cleveland and Boston, 1979, p. 226, under no. 68. P. Rosenberg, Tout l'Oeuvre Peint de Chardin, Paris, 1983, pp. 87, 88, no. 84C, illustrated. P. Grate, French Paintings II: Eighteenth Century, Stockholm, 1994, p. 88, under no. 104. P. Rosenberg and R. Temperini, Chardin: suivi du Catalogue des Oeuvres, Paris, 1999, no. 85C, illustrated. P. Conisbee in The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, ed. C. B. Bailey, exhibition catalogue, Ottawa, Washington, DC and Berlin, 2003, pp.180-182, no. 31, illustrated. P. Rosenberg, Chardin: Il pittore del silenzio, exhibition catalogue, Ferrara & Madrid, 2010-2011, p. 124, under no. 27.

Provenance:

Mrs. K.M. Taylor, 43 Beaufort Gardens, London; Christie's, London, 19 November 1920, lot 63 (unsold at 90 gns.); returned to the owner and re-offered for sale; Christie's, London, 11 June 1926, lot 107 (252 gns. to the following). with Joseph Duveen (1869-1939), from whom acquired by. The Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin (1871-1941), Meridian House, Washington, D.C., and by descent to his widow, Therese Iselin Laughlin (d. 1958); and by descent to their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler (1914-1999), Genesco, New York; and thence by descent to the present owner.