Artwork Details
12-1/4 x 15-3/8 in. 16 x 19-7/8 in. (framed)
Mark DescriptionSignature, lower right: Chardin Label, adhesive paper at verso: [exhibition of Still Life, Amsterdam, 1933] Label, adhesive paper at verso: [exhibition of Gastronomic Art, Paris, 1934] Label, adhesive paper at verso: [exhibition of Table and Dining Dic., 1932] Label, adhesive paper at verso: [Chardin, Gallery Pigalle, 1929]
Accession NumberJames E. Roberts Fund
CopyrightEuropean Painting and Sculpture Before 1800
Color PaletteLeroux. sale Charles Stern, 8-10 June 1899, no. 319. sale L. Michel Levy, Paris, France, 17-18 June 1925, no. 136. Galerie Schaeffer; received on loan for purchase from Dr. Hans Schaeffer by the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana 16 April 1936 Provenance research is on-going at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. If you have questions, or if you have information to share with us, please contact info@discovernewfields.org.
This is one of the numerous small paintings of ordinary household subjects done by Chardin in the early 1730s. He frequently made use of the same repertory of objects - a copper pot, skimmer, glazed clay pitcher, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, turnips - in other compositions. There is a profound orderliness and harmony in these arrangements of utensils and vegetables and a sense of moral certitude in their rustic simplicity. Such values were prized by the rising middle class, who made up most of Chardin's patrons.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Exhibition of Gastronomic Art
1934 - 1934
Exhibition of Still Life
1933 - 1933
Exhibition of Table and Dining Dic. [abbreviated]
Unknown
1932 - 1932
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