Still Life with Ray and Basket of Onions

Artist Jean Siméon Chardin French, 1699–1779

Date1731

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions16 x 12 5/8 in. (40.6 x 32.1 cm)
Frame: 24 1/8 x 21 x 3 3/8 in. (61.3 x 53.3 x 8.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number63.29.1

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ProvenanceCreated Paris, 1731. [The artist Hughes (1729-1785)?] Taraval collection, Paris; Chef Adolphe Dugléré (1805–1884), Paris; [his sale, Hotel des Ventes Mobilières, rue des Jeuneurs, Paris, January 31, 1853, no. 11, as Nature morte]. Paul Barroilhet (1810–1871) Paris, by 1860; [his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 15–16, 1872, no. 5, as La table de cuisine]. Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, Paris, 1876; Baron Henri de Rothschild (1872–1947), Paris. [Knoedler Galleries, New York, October 1963, no. A6718] [1]; sold to NCMA, 1963.

[1] Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 52, Row 36, Stock no. A6718.
Published References"Catalogue d'une précieuse collection de tableaux anciens...composant le cabinet de M. A. Dugleré," (auction catalogue) (Paris: Hotel des Ventes Mobilières, rue des Jeuneurs, January 31, 1853), lot 11, as Nature morte.

Burger (Thore), 1860 [p. 235].

"Catalogue des tableaux anciens & modernes...composant la collection de feu M. Barroilhet," (auction catalogue) (Paris: Hotel Drouot, March 15–16, 1872), lot 5, as La table de cuisine.

Emmanuel Bocher, Les Gravures françaises du XVIII siecle ou Catalogue Raisonné des Estampes, Eaux Fortes, Piècés en couleur, au bistre et au lavis, de 1700 a 1800, vol. 3 (Paris, 1876), 103.

E. and J. de Goncourt, L'Art du XVIIIeme Siecle (Paris, 1906), 130.

Jean Guiffrey, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint et Dessine (Paris, 1907), 54, 89, cat. no. 211.

E. and J. de Goncourt, Edition utilisee, 3rd ed., vol. 1 (Paris, 1909), 192.

Herbert A. Furst, Chardin (London, 1911), 129, as Coin de Cuisine (Poulet Plume)].

"Chardin au Theatre Pigalle," L'Art Vivant (November 1, 1929), 836 (as Le Poulet).

Andre Pascal and Roger Gaucheron, Documents sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Chardin (Paris, 1931), 137.

Georges Wildenstein, Chardin (Paris, 1933), 916, illus. pl. 131.

Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, French XVIII Century Painters (Phaidon, 1948).

A Loan Exhibition of French Masters of the Eighteenth Century (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1963), cat. no. 16, illus.

Collector's Opportunity (exhibition catalogue) (Winston-Salem: Gallery of the Public Library of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, 1963), 56, illus. (b-w) 57.

"Chardin Still Life to NCMA," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events 7, no. 2 (November 1963), discussed and illus. (b-w) unnumbered page (as Kitchen Table with a Ray Fish).

The Art Quarterly 26 (1963), 491, cat. no. 4, illus., listed p. 485.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), mentioned 11, listed 81, illus (b-w) 53, fig. 12.

Gazette des Beaux Arts (February 1964), 56, illus.

Emporium (July 1964), 39-40, illus.

Sele Arts (January-February 1964), 60, illus.

La Chronique des Arts, (February 1964), 59, cat. no. 1141, illus.

Georges Wildenstein, Chardin (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1969), 162, illus. fig. 44.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 74, illus. (color) 75.

William H. Gerdts and Russell Baker, American Still Life Paintings (New York: Praeger, 1971), 198, illus. 14-4.

Pierre Rosenberg, Chardin 1699-1779 (Cleveland Museum of Art and Indiana University Press, 1979), 161-63. French edition (Paris: Editions de la Reunion des Musée Nationaux, 1969), 161-63.

Pierre Rosenberg, L'opera completa de Chardin, Classici dell'Arte, no. 109 (Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1983), 80, illus. fig. 53.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus (color) 16.

Philip Conisbee, Chardin (Oxford: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1985), illus. pl 84.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 127.

Claus Grimm, Stilleben (Stuttgart: Belser Verlag, 1995), 199, illus.

Masterworks for Learning: A College Collection Catalogue (Oberlin, OH: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 1998), CD-Rom - as comparative with Allen Museum's Chardin painting, Still Life with a Rib of Beef.

Joseph P. Covington, entry for Still Life with Ray Fish, Copper Kettle, and Onions, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 171, illus. (color).

Joseph P. Covington, entry for Still Life with Ray and Basket of Onions, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 350, illus. (color) 351.
Exhibition HistoryParis, 1869, cat. no. 359.

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, "Exposition Chardin-Fragonard," June 11-July 12, 1907, cat. no. 58.

Paris, Galerie Pigalle, "Exposition des Oeuvres de J. B. S. Chardin," 1929, cat. no. 30 (as Le Poulet).

Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Art Center, "10th Anniversary Exhibition. Current Painting Styles and Their Sources," June 1-July 20, 1958, reproduced in brochure.

New York, NY, Finch College Museum of Art, "A Loan Exhibition of French Masters of the Eighteenth Century," February 27-April 7, 1963, cat. no 16, illus.

Winston-Salem, NC, Public Library, N.C. State Art Society at Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, "Collector's Opportunity," April 22-May 3, 1963, 56, illus. (b-w) 57.

Columbus, OH, Ohio State University and Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, "The Enlightenment: Art and Thought of the 18th Century," April 23-May 16, 1965.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 74, illus. (color) 75.

Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 11-April 13, 1975.

Paris, Louvre, "Chardin Retrospective," January 26-April 30, 1979; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, May 30-August 12, 1979;

Boston, MA, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, September 18-November 19, 1979.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, "Objects of Delight: Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection," October 5, 1990-June 16, 1991.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, “Catch and Release: A Temporary Union of Seafood Imagery from the Ackland Art Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Art,” September 26–November 14, 2012.
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