A copper cauldron, a pestle and mortar, a stoneware jug, eggs and a spring onion on a ledge

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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (Paris 1699-1779)
A copper cauldron, a pestle and mortar, a stoneware jug, eggs and a spring onion on a ledge
oil on canvas
14¾ x 18½ in. (37.5 x 47 cm.)

Provenance

Eudoxe Marcille (1814-1875).
Anon. Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23 May 1994, lot 21.

Literature

E. Bocher, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, catalogue de l'oeuvre de Chardin, collection de M. Eudoxe Marcille, Paris, 1876, p. 100.
J. Guiffrey, J.B.S. Chardin, Catalogue complet de l'oeuvre du maître, Paris, 1908, p. 80, no. 149.
H.F.A. Furst, Chardin, London, 1911, p. 126.
G. Wildenstein, Chardin, Paris, 1933, p. 231, no. 1002, fig. 142.
G. Wildenstein, Chardin, Zurich, 1963, p. 163, no. 144, fig. 63.
P. Rosenberg, Chardin, Tout l'Oeuvre peint, Paris, 1983, p. 84, no. 75, illustrated.

Exhibited

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Salle des Etats, 1885, Exposition de Tableaux, statues et Objets d'art au profit de l'oeuvre des orphelins d'Alsace-Lorraine, no. 57, p. 25.

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Lot Essay

The present painting is characteristic of Chardin's still lifes of the beginning of the 1730s: small canvasses depicting simple kitchen tables with carefully arranged day-to-day objects. These simple compositions are, in fact (as Pierre Rosenberg noted about the present picture, op. cit.) exercises 'which have one aim: absolute balance, perfect composition.'

This picture was formerly in the collection of the great Chardin collector, Eudoxe Marcille, son of François Martial Marcille (1790-1856) and brother of Camille Marcille (1816-1875).

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