JEAN-BAPTISTE SIMEON CHARDIN. 1699-1779

51 STILL LIFE WITH THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE ARTS

Oil on canvas. 53 X HO cm. Inv. No 1140 Signed lower right: Chardin

This still life may be dated to the 1750s. Chardin executed a large number of similar compositions symbolizing music, painting, etc., of which Wildenstein's Catalogue lists 21. In its subject matter the Pushkin Museum picture is close to Still Life with the Attributes of the Arts in The Hermitage (1766, Inv. No 5627), its variant (1769?) in the Minneapolis Museum of Arts (USA), and Still Life with the Attributes of the Arts in The Louvre. The latter was exhibited in the Salon of 1765.

Provenance: until 1918 The O. Paley Collection, Tsarskoye Selo (near St Petersburg); 1918—24 The Palace

Museum (formerly the Paley Palace), Detskoye Selo

(near Petrograd); 1924—27 The Hermitage, Leningrad; since 1927 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Exhibitions: 1937 Paris, Cat. 142; 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 61; 1956 Leningrad, Cat., p. 61

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 86, ill.; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 148, ill.; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 195, ill.; D. Diderot, CEuvres completes, vols. 1—12, Paris, 1875—77, vol. 10, p. 301; ibid., vol. 11, p. 409; Э. Гол-лербах, Собрание Палей в Детском Селе, Petrograd, 1923, pp. 12—13; Reau 1929, No 451; G. Wildenstein, Chardin, Paris, 1933, No 1140, ill.; G. Wildenstein, Chardin, Paris, 1968, No 237, ill.; E. Нотгафт, "Атрибуты искусства и проблемы аллегорического натюрморта у Шардена", Ежегодник Гос. Эрмитажа, vol. I, 1, 1937, р. 6, ill.; Прокофьев 1962, ill. 55; Musee de Moscou 1963, p. 145, ill.; ГМИИ 1966, No 64; Charmet 1970, p. 20, ill.; Antonova 1977, No 69

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After Bouchardon's bas-relief. 1770 Oil on canvas. 51 X 82.5 cm. Inv. No 1139 Signed and dated lower right: Chardin 1770 The picture is the imitation of Bouchardon's bas-relief Autumn which constitutes part of his sculptural group Seasons of the Year installed in the Rue de Crenelle fountain in Paris. Among Chardin's works there are at least twenty compositions imitating bas-reliefs and dating from different years of his artistic career.

Provenance: until 1924 The D. Shchukin Collection, Moscow; since 1924 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1771 Paris (Salon), Cat. 38; 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 61

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 86; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 148; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 195; D. Diderot, OEuvres completes, vols. 1—12, Paris, 1875—77, vol. 11, p. 48; Reau 1929, No 452; G. Wildenstein, Chardin, Paris, 1933, No 1203, ill.; G. Wildenstein, Chardin, Paris, 1968, No 362, ill.

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