Still Life with Plums
first half 17th century
Jacques Linard
Artist, French, c. 1600 - 1645
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 32.5 × 45 cm (12 13/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2025.11.5
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Monsieur Bénédict, by 1946;[1] Mme Manet by 1951;[2] Jacques Normand; (his estate sale 29-30 October 2003, Guy Herdhebaut, Drouot Richelieu, Salle 7, Paris, as attributed to Pierre Dupuis). (Sale, Sotheby’s New York, 22 January 2004, no. 215); Miriam [1937–2024] and Eliezer H. Benbassat [1934–2022], Washington, DC; The Miriam Benbassat Trust; gift 2025 to NGA.
[1] A photocopy of an index card in NGA curatorial files, presumably from the Galerie Charpentier for its 1946 exhibition_ La Vie Silencieuse_, seems to indicate that the painting, attributed to Moillon at the time, was from Monsieur Bénédict.
[2] The catalogue for the 1951 exhibition _ Natures mortes françaises du XVIIe siècle à nos jours_ at the Galerie Charpentier named Mme. Monet as the owner of three still lifes, including this one, attributed to Moillon.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1946
La vie silencieuse, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1946, no. 42 bis, as Louise Moillon.
1951
Natures mores française du XVII siècle á nos jours, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1951, no. 120 (as Louise Moillon).