ID 770940
Lot 50 | JEAN-BAPTISTE-SIMÉON CHARDIN (PARIS 1699-1779)
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 70 000
A genre scene, possibly La boïte du prestidigitateur ('The Conjurer's Box')
indistinctly signed and dated 'J Chardin / 1730' (lower center)
oil on canvas
14 5⁄8 x 17 3⁄4 in. (37.3 x 45 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, England.
Gösta Stenman(1888-1947), by 1938, and by descent to,
Bertha Stenman (1890-1969), Stockholm, by 1958.
Anonymous sale; Norden Auktioner AB, Stockholm, 29 May 1997, lot 61.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 December 2004, lot 48, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
E. Goldschmidt, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Stockholm, 1945, pp. 66-71, fig. 16.
E. Goldschmidt, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Copenhagen, 1947, unpaginated, fig. 17.
P. Rosenberg, Chardin: New Thoughts. The Franklin Murphy Lectures I, Kansas, 1983, pp. 78-83.
P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Chardin, Paris, 1983, p. 79, no. 50.
E. Launay, Les frères Goncourt, collectionneurs de dessins, Paris, 1991, p. 253, under no. 46.
Exhibited
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Stenmans 1913-1938, 1938, no. 9.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Frankrike genom konstnãrsögon, 9 May-2 June 1941, no. 299.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, 100 sekel Fransk konst, 15 August-9 November 1958, no. 77, as 'unknown artist'.
Paris, Grand Palais; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Chardin, 29 January-19 November 1979, no. 141, as 'Chardin (?)' (this painting only exhibited in Paris).
Artist: | Jean Siméon Chardin (1699 - 1779) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Baroque, Rococo, Old Masters |
Genre: | Genre art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe, Paris |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Jean Siméon Chardin (1699 - 1779) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Baroque, Rococo, Old Masters |
Genre: | Genre art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe, Paris |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
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