Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818)

細節

Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818)

A Bust of Minerva, Armour, Muskets, a Drum, a Standard, a Marshal's Baton, a Laurel Wreath and Badges and Sashes of the Orders of Saint-Louis and of the Saint-Esprit on a Stone Ledge

signed and dated 'M Vallayer 1777'

44 7/8 x 62½in. (114 x 158.7cm.)

來源

Madame Vissitier, by whom lent to the 1777 Salon
Vicomte G. Chabert; sale, Paris, 5 June 1909, lot 12
Anon. Sale, Paris, 9 June 1923, lot 15, illustrated
Madame Potin; sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 April 1929, lot 25 (25,000 francs)
Marcel Midy
Anon. Sale, Paris, 7 March 1941, lot 15 (22,000 francs)
Anon. Sale, Paris, 15 Dec. 1959, lot 30 (1,100,000 francs)
with Wildenstein
James Ling, Dallas, Texas, by whom purchased from the above in 1968
LTV Steel Corporation, Dallas, Texas
Mr. Rege Gold, DuBois, Pennsylvania

出版

Lettres pittoresques à l'occasion des tableaux exposés au Salon en 1777, chez Gueffier, Paris, 1777, 7th letter
L. Bachaumont, Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la République des Lettres en France depuis 1762 jusqu'à nos jours, London, 1777-89
M. Faré, La Nature Morte en France. Son histoire et son evolution du XVIIe au XX siècle, Geneva, 1962, I, p.222, and II, pl.426
M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer Coster, Paris, 1970, pp.187-8, no.264
M. and F. Faré, La Vie Silencieuse en France. La nature morte au XVIIIe siècle, Fribourg and Paris, 1976, p.223 and p.229, pl.356

展覽

Paris, Salon, 1777, no.101
Paris, Galerie Heim, Hommage à Chardin, 6 June-10 July 1959, no.84 and pl.38
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Women Artists 1550-1950, no.54

拍品專文

The present picture was sketched by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin in his copy of the livret of the 1777 Salon (see Roland Michel, op. cit., illustration on p.66). It was exhibited with a pendant, also sketched by Saint-Aubin, showing un vase de porcelaine de la Chine, avec plantes marines, coquillages & différentes espèces de minéraux. This remained with the present painting until the Potin Sale of 1929. Reproduced from an old photograph by Faré, op. cit., 1976, p.228, pl.352, it remained untraced until its sale at Sotheby's, Monaco, 21 June 1991, lot 151 (FF 1,900,000), when it was found to be dated 1776 (and presumably to have been reduced in width).
The pictures submitted by Vallayer-Coster to the Salon of 1777 were particularly well received by the critics, Bachaumont writing, loc. cit., 'Mlle Vallayer dont le pinceau sûr et fidèle s'est soumis tous les objets de la nature inanimée. Mais après ce triomphe, elle court à de plus considérables', and the anonymous author of the Lettres pittoresques noting that 'cette aimable artiste a embelli le Salon de très jolis tableaux'