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JEAN-SIMÉON CHARDIN (PARIS 1699-1779)

Lot 44
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Lot 44 | JEAN-SIMÉON CHARDIN (PARIS 1699-1779)
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€ 80 000 – 120 000
JEAN-SIMÉON CHARDIN (PARIS 1699-1779)

L'hiver, à l'imitation de bas-relief d'après Edmé Bouchardon, grisaille

signé et daté 'Chardin pinx 1776' (en bas, à gauche)

huile sur toile, trompe-l'oeil

55 x 88 cm. (21 1/2 x 34 1/2 in.)





Provenance

Peut-être vente de Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779), Paris, 29 avril 1790, lot 28 (comme 'Un tableau imitant le bas-relief, sujet de l'hiver, d'après Bouchardon...retiré à 72 livres').

Collection de François Marcille (1790-1856) ; sa première vente, Paris, 16 et 17 janvier 1857, lot 424 (comme 'Attribué à Chardin. Bas-relief d'après Bouchardon' (dans cette même vente figuraient deux autres grisailles données à Chardin : Le Mercure de Pigalle (lot 19) et Vespasien (lot 28)) ; puis sa seconde vente, Paris, 2 et 3 mars 1857, lot 37 (comme 'Enfants. Grisaille').

Collection d'Eudoxe Marcille (1814-1890) jusque 1890 ; puis par descendance aux actuels propriétaires.



Literature

Anonyme, La prêtresse ou Nouvelle manière de prédire ce qui est arrivé, Rome, 1777, p. 13.

Anonyme, Mercure de France, dédié au Roi, par une société de gens de lettres, Paris, octobre 1777, I, p. 172.

Anonyme, L'année littéraire, Paris, 1777, VI, p. 342.

L.-P. de Bachaumont, Mémoires secrets. Pour servir à l'Histoire de la République des Lettres en France, depuis MDCCLXII jusqu'à nos jours, Londres, 1780, XI, p. 34.

H. de Chennevières, 'Silhouettes de collectionneurs. M. Eudoxe Marcille', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1890, IV, p. 302.

G. Wildenstein, Chardin, coll. L'art français, Paris, 1933, p. 248, n°1211.

Galerie Heim, Hommage à Chardin. Au profit de la Société des Amis du Louvre, [cat. exp.], Paris, 1959, sous le n°23.

G. Wildenstein, Chardin, Zurich, 1963 (édition anglaise revue et complétée par D. Wildenstein, Oxford, Glasgow, Zurich, 1969), p. 220, n°382, reproduit en noir et blanc p. 219, fig. 174.

M. Faré, F. Faré, La vie silencieuse en France. La nature morte au XVIIIe siècle, Fribourg, 1976, p. 168.

P. Rosenberg, L'opera completa di Chardin, Milan, 1983, p. 114, n°197, reproduit en noir et blanc p. 114.

E. Dacier, Catalogues de ventes et livrets de salons illustrés par Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Nogent-le-Roi, 1993, IV, pp. 45-46, dessin de Gabriel de Saint-Aubin reproduit en noir et blanc p. 13 du Livret du Salon de 1777 en appendix.

P. Rosenberg, R. Temperini, Chardin suivi du Catalogue des oeuvres, Paris, 1999, p. 287, n°200, reproduit en noir et blanc p. 287.



Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1777, n°49 (comme 'Un tableau imitant un bas-relief').

Paris, Association des artistes, galerie Bonne-Nouvelle, Explication des ouvrages de peinture exposés à la Galerie Bonne-Nouvelle, 1849, n°7 (comme 'Un bas-relief (grisaille)') (selon P. Rosenberg, Chardin 1699-1779, [cat. exp.], Paris, Grand Palais, 1979, p. 372).

Paris, Grand Palais, Chardin 1699-1779, 29 janvier-30 avril 1979, n°138.



Post lot text

JEAN-SIMÉON CHARDIN, WINTER, IN IMITATION OF A BAS-RELIEF AFTER EDMÉ BOUCHARDON, GRISAILLE, SIGNED AND DATED, OIL ON CANVAS

"One always recognizes a great man. Here Chardin has worked a different magic; this painting is much less finished than his previous paintings, but yet there is in it as much realism and truth as anything that has emerged from his brush; here, his mastery of illusion is at its height, and I’ve seen more than one person fooled. It seems that Nature herself has bestowed her confidence on Mr. Chardin and Mr. de Buffon."

These are the words Denis Diderot (1713-1784) used to describe the virtuosity of Chardin’s trompe-l’œil bas-relief painting exhibited at the Salon of 1771 (P. Rosenberg, 1979, op. cit., p.373). Six years later, the artist returned to grisaille painting and executed the present work, an imitation of the plaster bas-relief Winter by Edmé Bouchardon (1698-1762), which along with the three other seasons still adorns the Fountain of the Four Seasons on Rue Grenelle, Paris. It was at the Salon of 1777 that Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780) sketched the present version of the bas-relief in the margins of his exhibition booklet.

This painting is the fourth that Chardin presented at the Salon after his “return to grisaille” following his 1796 and 1771 submissions, and probably one of the master’s last works (P. Rosenberg, 1979, op. cit., p. 372). The trompe l’oeil exhibited at the Salon of 1771, today in the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow (inv. no. Ж-1139), depicts another one of the fountain’s allegorical scenes, Autumn.
Artist:Jean Siméon Chardin (1699 - 1779)
Medium:Canvas, Textile
Art style:Old Masters
Genre:Mythological painting
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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