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Still Life with a White Mug
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardinc. 1764
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Still Life with a White Mug
- Creator: Jean Siméon Chardin
- Date Created: c. 1764
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 33.1 x 41.2 cm (13 1/16 x 16 1/4 in.) framed: 52.1 x 60 x 6 cm (20 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Baron de Saint-Julien;[1] (his sale, Hôtel de Bullion, Paris, 21 June 1784 and days following, no. 69 [a pair of Chardin still lifes]); Dulac. Peter Adolf Hall [1739-1793], Paris; by inheritance in his family to a descendant of his daughter Lucie; (sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13 March 1922, no. 9);[2] (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London); sold to William R. [1866-1949] and Lillian S. [1881-1959] Timken, New York, by 1933; (Paul Drey, New York); purchased May 1937 by W. Averell [1891-1986] and Marie N.[1903-1970] Harriman, New York;[3] W. Averell Harriman Foundation, New York; gift 1972 to NGA. [1] The title page of the 1874 sale catalogue reads "...Cabinet de M. le Baron de Saint J***," and the seller is further identified by hand-written annotations to the title page and by Frits Lugt as Baron de Saint J[ulien]. Although two Saint-Juliens have been confused in the literature, the owner of the Chardin was probably François-David Bollioud, seigneur de Saint-Julien (1713-c. 1789), the _receveur général du clergé_. His residence in Paris became the Hôtel de Lannoy (site of famous interior decorations commissioned in 1798 from Pierre-Paul Prud'hon), and he also had constructed the Château de Fontaine-Française near Dijon, which was built over four years from 1754 to 1758 on the site of an old fortress that was owned by the woman he married in 1748, Anne-Madeleine de la Tour du Pin. See John Ingamells, _The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Pictures. III: French before 1815_, London, 1989: P430, 161-165. [2] The second of Hall's four children was Angélique Lucie Hall (1774-1819), known as Lucie. Her daughter from her first marriage, Lucie Garnier [b. 1793], married Charles-Honoré Ditte. Lucie and Charles Ditte's granddaughter, a third Lucie (daughter of their son, Henri Ditte), married in 1884 "George de Pembroke, Lord Montgomery," who has not yet been identified among the earls of Pembroke and Montgomery. Although the sale catalogue for the 1922 sale in which the NGA Chardin appeared describes her as "Madame Ditte, née de Montgomery," she was actually Madame de Montgomery, née Ditte. See Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, _Pierre Adolphe Hall, 1739-1793, Miniaturiste suédois, Peintre du Roi et des Enfants de France_, Paris, 2000: 26, 42, 65, 93, 161. [3] According to Harriman collection records in NGA curatorial files. The painting was published in a 1933 reference as belonging to the Timkens.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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