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Provenance

Marquis de Biron, Paris and Château de Biron, Monpazier;[1] sold 1926 to (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London); sold 19 November 1927 or 1929 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[2] gift 1943 to NGA.

[1] This "marquis de Biron" was possibly Guillaume de Gontaut Biron, marquis de Biron (1859-1939); see Les donateurs du Louvre, Paris, 1989: 220, and Georges Martin, Histoire et généalogie des maisons de Gontaut Biron et D'Hautefort, Lyon, 1995: 60. However, in a letter dated 3 December 1995 (in NGA curatorial files), the then-marquis de Gontaut-Biron says there is no family record or memory of paintings by Chardin in his ancestor's collection and gives a death date of 1936.

[2] The Chester Dale records (copy in NGA curatorial files) give 1927 as the year of purchase. Joseph Baillio of Wildenstein, in a letter of 8 November 1995 to Eik Kahng (in NGA curatorial files), gives the year as 1929, and also provides the year that Wildenstein acquired the painting.

Exhibition History

1926
Exhibition of Paintings by J.-B. S. Chardin, Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 1926, no. 12, repro.
1930
"La Nature Morte" from Chardin to the Abstract, Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 1930, no. 1.
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, no cat.

Bibliography

1930
"Still Life 'From Chardin to the Abstract' Revealed in Show." Art Digest 4 (15 January 1930):11, repro.
1933
Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin. Paris, 1933: no. 798, repro. pl. LXXXII, no. 108.
1942
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 15, repro., as Still Life.
1942
Jewell, Edward Alden. "The National Gallery's New Riches: An Additional Selection of Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection on Loan." The New York Times (22 February 1942): repro.
1943
Washington Times-Herald (18 July 1943): C-10.
1943
Mechlin, Leila. "National Gallery Gets New Gifts from Chester Dale." Washington Sunday Star (11 July 1943):
1944
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 15, repro., as Still Life.
1948
Wildenstein and Company. French XVIII Century Paintings. New York, 1948: 4.
1949
Jourdain, Francis. Chardin. Paris, 1949: repro. 56.
1950
Denvir, Bernard. Chardin. New York, 1950: pl. 28.
1953
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 21, repro., as Still Life.
1956
Einstein, Lewis. "Looking at French Eighteenth Century Pictures in Washington." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 67, no. 1048-1049 (May-June 1956): 234.
1963
Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin. Zurich, 1963: no. 287, fig. 136.
1965
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 21, repro., as Still Life.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 26, as Still Life.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 20, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 66, repro., as Still Life.
1983
Rosenberg, Pierre. L'opera completa di Chardin. Milan, 1983: no. 22, repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 86, repro.
1995
Martinez, Benjamin, and Jacqueline Block. Visual Forces: An Introduction to Design. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1995: 22, repro. 23B.
2005
The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier. A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein's Presence in New York. Exh. cat. Wildenstein & Co., New York, 2005: 78 (not in the exhibition).
2009
Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 11, 59-62, color repro.

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