Urn of Flowers with Fruits and Hare
Artist
Alexandre-François Desportes
French, 1661–1743
Date1715
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions40 x 32 in. (101.6 x 81.3 cm)
Frame: 48 1/4 x 39 7/8 in. (122.6 x 101.3 cm)
Frame: 48 1/4 x 39 7/8 in. (122.6 x 101.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.123
On View
Not on viewProvenanceSale, Berlin, Rudolph Lepke, February 22, 1910, lot 102, reproduced, pl. 29; Carl Robert Lamm, Näsby Castle, (near Stockholm) Sweden; his sale, New York, American Art Association, February 22, 1923, lot 626, (bought by A. Williams or William Fox); William Fox (movie producer), probably acquired through an American Art Association sale between 1930 and 1933; Mrs. William Fox; her sale, Kende Galleries (actual sale took place at the Jay Gould mansion, 579 Fifth Ave., New York), December 1, 1942, lot 57; "G. Gould, New York" (perhaps the collector George Jay Gould, son of Jay Gould, who lived in Lakehurst, NJ); with M. Knoedler & Co., New York; sold to NCMA, 1952.
Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 149, illus. (b-w).
Masterpieces in Bloom (exhibition brochure) (New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1973), cat. no. 18.
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. (b-w) 148.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 126.
Claus Grimm, Stilleben (Stuttgart: Belser Verlag, 1995), 65, illus.
Pierre Jacky, Alexandre-François Desportes: Tableaux de Chasse (Paris: Mona Bismarck Foundation [?], 1998), 63.
Art Taylor, "Museum Loans," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March/April 2002), mentioned 7, illus. (color).
Georges de Lastic and Pierre Jacky, Desportes Catalogue Raisonné (Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau: Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2010), cat. no. P 561, illus. (color) 146.
Heather MacDonald and Mitchell Merling, Working Among Flowers: Floral Still-Life Paintings in Nineteenth-Century France (exhibition catalogue) (Dallas and Richmond: Dallas Museum of Art and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2014), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 74, fig. 53 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Exhibition HistoryMinneapolis, MN, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Arts of 18th Century France," January 13-February 24, 1945.
Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, "Still Life and Flower Paintings," November 2-December 9, 1945, cat. no. 7.
Port Jefferson, NY, Port Jefferson Masonic Temple, "Flowers on Parade," August 17-25, 1945, cat. no. 5.
Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, "History of Still Life and Flower Painting," February 22-March 28, 1948, cat. no. 4.
Raleigh, NC, State Art Gallery, December 5-12, 1951.
Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, October, 1958.
Sarasota, FL, Ringling Museum of Art, "Masterpieces from American Museums," January 15-February 19, 1967.
Durham, NC, Duke University, "Moliére Festival Exhibition," February 21 - March 18, 1973.
New York, NY, Wildenstein & Co., "Flower Painting," (title of exhibition also called "Masterpieces in Bloom") April 3-May 5, 1973, cat. no. 18.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, "Objects of Delight: Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection," October 5-June 16, 1991.
Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "Eighteenth Century Paintings and Sculptures from the North Carolina Museum of Art," April 21, 2002 - March 30, 2003
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