Still Life with Herrings
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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Still Life with Herrings

c. 1735
Jean-Siméon Chardin (French, 1699–1779) visual detail
ArtistJean-Siméon Chardin (French, 1699–1779)
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Provenance

Public
Until 1857

Dr. Benoist

March 30, 1857

(Benoist sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 30, 1857, no. 12, probably sold to Monsieur R.)

Probably 1857-1860

Monsieur R., Paris

April 28, 1860

(Monsieur R. collection sale, Rouillard, Paris, April 28, 1860, no. 12, possibly sold to Henri

Possibly 1860-by 1881

Henri Viollet [1849-1926?], Tours, France

Until 1904

Alfred [1811-1893] and Paul [1833-1903] Mame, Tours, France

April 26-29, 1904

(Mame sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, April 26-29, 1904, no. 7, sold to Alexis Vollon)

Source provenance text

Dr. Benoist (Benoist sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 30, 1857, no. 12, probably sold to Monsieur R.) Monsieur R., Paris (Monsieur R. collection sale, Rouillard, Paris, April 28, 1860, no. 12, possibly sold to Henri Henri Viollet [1849-1926?], Tours, France Alfred [1811-1893] and Paul [1833-1903] Mame, Tours, France (Mame sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, April 26-29, 1904, no. 7, sold to Alexis Vollon) Alexis Vollon [1865-1945], Paris, France David David-Weill [1871-1952], Paris, France (Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, NY, sold to Sidney J. Lamon) Sidney J. Lamon [d. 1973], New York, NY (Sale, Christie’s, London, June 29, 1973, no. 21, sold to Frederick Mont/Newhouse Galleries) 1 (Frederick Mont and Newhouse Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

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Exhibitions

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Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975). Chardin, 1699 - 1779. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (co-organizer) (January 26-April 30, 1979); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (June 6-August 12, 1979); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (co-organizer) (September 11-November 19, 1979). The Magic of Still Life. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 1986-February 1, 1987). Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001). Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005). Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin. Palazzo dei Diamanti, 44110 Ferrara, Italy (October 17, 2010-January 30, 2011); Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (February 28-May 29, 2011). Exposition Retrospective, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France, (1873). Exposition Chardin et Fragonard, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France (June-July, 1907). French Still Life from Chardin to Cézanne, Arnold Seligmann-Helft Galleries, New York, NY (October 29-November 22, 1947).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Chardin reflected intensely on the act of observation. Still life became a forum for sophisticated performances in paint, and his complex technique—he famously worked in private—uses a staggering combination of delicate glazes and roughly dragged thick paint to capture the varied surfaces, atmospheres, and spaces in this humble pantry shelf. Acutely aware of recent developments in optics and physics, Chardin explored ideas about light, shadow, and color, and fully expected his work to be inspected closely.

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 14 structured provenance events · 6 structured exhibitions.

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