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Property of a Distinguished Collector
JEAN SIMÉON CHARDIN (PARIS 1699-1779)
The Diligent Mother (‘La Mère laborieuse’)
Details
JEAN SIMÉON CHARDIN (PARIS 1699-1779)
The Diligent Mother (‘La Mère laborieuse’)
signed ‘Chardin’ (center right, on the back wall above the teapot)
oil on canvas
20 1⁄8 x 15 ¾ in. (51.1 x 40 cm.)
The Diligent Mother (‘La Mère laborieuse’)
signed ‘Chardin’ (center right, on the back wall above the teapot)
oil on canvas
20 1⁄8 x 15 ¾ in. (51.1 x 40 cm.)
Provenance
Thomas Major (1720–1799), Paris and London, by 1751; his sale, anonymous auction house, London, [day unknown] April 1751, 2nd day, lot 38, where acquired for 23 gns. by,
Charles Wyndham (1710-1763), 2nd Earl of Egremont, PC, Petworth House, West Sussex, and by descent until 1927.
John Davison Rockefeller III (1906-1978) and Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller née Hooker (1909-1992), New York, from 1927.
Private collection, New York, acquired through Eugene V. Thaw, New York.
Charles Wyndham (1710-1763), 2nd Earl of Egremont, PC, Petworth House, West Sussex, and by descent until 1927.
John Davison Rockefeller III (1906-1978) and Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller née Hooker (1909-1992), New York, from 1927.
Private collection, New York, acquired through Eugene V. Thaw, New York.
Literature
C. Collins Baker, Catalogue of the Petworth Collection, in the Possession of Lord Leconfield, London, 1920, no. 561.
G. Wildenstein, Chardin, Paris, 1933, p. 161, no. 96.
W. Georges, ‘L’Art Français et l’Esprit de Suite’, La Renaissance, March-August 1937, p. 9.
G. Wildenstein, Chardin, Oxford, 1963, p. 185, no. 195, fig. 88.
P. Rosenberg, ed., Chardin 1699–1779, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1979, pp. 263-264, under no. 84, illustrated.
P. Rosenberg, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Chardin, Paris, 1983, pp. 98-99, no. 118 A, illustrated, as a 'copie retouchée'.
P. Rosenberg and R. Temperini, Chardin. Suivi du catalogue des oeuvres, Paris, 1999, p. 250, no. 119 A, illustrated, as a 'copie retouchée'.
D. Ludke, et al., Jean Simeon Chardin: Werk, Herkunft, Wirkung, Karlsruhe, 1999, p. 129, note 4, under no. 20.
P. Rosenberg, ed., Chardin, exhibition catalogue, London and New York, 2000, p. 244, under no. 60, as a 'reworked copy' by Chardin that sold in the 1751 Major sale in London.
G. Wildenstein, Chardin, Paris, 1933, p. 161, no. 96.
W. Georges, ‘L’Art Français et l’Esprit de Suite’, La Renaissance, March-August 1937, p. 9.
G. Wildenstein, Chardin, Oxford, 1963, p. 185, no. 195, fig. 88.
P. Rosenberg, ed., Chardin 1699–1779, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1979, pp. 263-264, under no. 84, illustrated.
P. Rosenberg, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Chardin, Paris, 1983, pp. 98-99, no. 118 A, illustrated, as a 'copie retouchée'.
P. Rosenberg and R. Temperini, Chardin. Suivi du catalogue des oeuvres, Paris, 1999, p. 250, no. 119 A, illustrated, as a 'copie retouchée'.
D. Ludke, et al., Jean Simeon Chardin: Werk, Herkunft, Wirkung, Karlsruhe, 1999, p. 129, note 4, under no. 20.
P. Rosenberg, ed., Chardin, exhibition catalogue, London and New York, 2000, p. 244, under no. 60, as a 'reworked copy' by Chardin that sold in the 1751 Major sale in London.
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