id: 146148 accession number: 1971.47 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.47 updated: 2021-03-27 12:15:41.233000 Basket of Plums, 1769. Anne Vallayer-Coster (French, 1744-1818). Oil on canvas; unframed: 38 x 46.2 cm (14 15/16 x 18 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1971.47 title: Basket of Plums title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1769 creation date earliest: 1769 creation date latest: 1769 current location: 216B French and German creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Anne Vallayer-Coster (French, 1744-1818) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 38 x 46.2 cm (14 15/16 x 18 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: "M.elle Vallayer / 1769" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1971 opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972). title: Chardin and the Still Life Tradition in France opening date: 1979-06-06T04:00:00 Chardin and the Still Life Tradition in France. The Cleveland Museum of Art (June 6-August 12, 1979). title: Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America opening date: 1993-03-26T04:00:00 Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993). title: Anne Vallayer-Coster: Still-Life Painting in the Age of Marie Antoinette opening date: 2002-06-30T00:00:00 Anne Vallayer-Coster: Still-Life Painting in the Age of Marie Antoinette. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (June 30-September 22, 2002); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (organizer) (October 13, 2002-January 5, 2003); Frick Collection, New York, NY (January 21-March 23, 2003); Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France (April 9-June 23, 2003). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Paris, Salon, 1771: cat. no. 147 (as 'Un panier de prunes').
Stockholm, National museum, 1918: "English, French, Italian, Netherlandish, Spanish, and German Art," cat. no. 40.
Göteborg (Sweden) Art Museum, 1938: "Three Centuries of Still Life," cat. no. 52.
Stockhom, National museum, 1958: "Five Centuries of French Art," cat. no. 102.
CMA, January 1972: "Year in Review for 1971," cat., Bull., cat. no. 56.
CMA, 1979:"Chardin and the Still-Life Tradition in France," cat. no. 7, illus. (catalogue by Gabriel P. Weisberg, with William S. Talbot).
CMA, March 23-October 17, 1993: "Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America," Gallery 102, no cat.
Dallas Museum of Art (organizer): "Anne Vallayer-Coster: Still Life Painting in the Age of Marie Antoinette" National Gallery of Art (6/30/2002 - 9/22/2002); Dallas Museum of Art (10/13/2002 - 1/5/2003); The Frick Collection (1/21/2003 - 3/23/2003); Centre de la Vielle Charite, Marseille (4/10/2003 - 6/23/2003), exh. cat. 20, pp. 259-262.
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado. Feb. 17 - May 16, 2004. "Luis Melendez: Bodegones." exh. cat., fig. 42, p. 95. --- PROVENANCE Baron Herzog, Budapest; Axel Ryden, Stockholm, 1918; Osborn Kling, Stockholm, 1934 (sale: H. Bukowski, Stockholm, September 25-26, 1934, no. 323, illus. pl. 37); Thorsten Laurin, Stockholm, 1938, and his daughter Mrs. B. Stjernsward, Sakanor, Sweden (sale: Sotheby's, London, June 24, 1970, no. 4, illus.); [Old Masters Gallery, London]; [H. Shickman Gallery, New York]. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1971. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: During the later part of the 1700s, fruit still lifes were extremely popular, and a basket of plums was a common motif. In Vallayer's painting the details, especially the plums and the basket, emerge from deep shadows. The colors are vivid reds and violets and a sense of immediacy is invoked by the growing moss, the cakes in their crisp papers, and the glass of water with its sparkling highlights and reflections. wall description: During the later part of the 1700s, fruit still lifes were extremely popular, and a basket of plums was a common motif. In Vallayer's painting the details, especially the plums and the basket, emerge from deep shadows. The colors are vivid reds and violets and a sense of immediacy is invoked by the growing moss, the cakes in their crisp papers, and the glass of water with its sparkling highlights and reflections. Anne Vallayer and two of her contemporaries, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842) and Adélaide Labille-Guiard (1749–1803), were the foremost women painters in 18th-century France. In 1770, at age 26, Vallayer was accepted into the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In 1780 she painted a portrait of Marie Antoinette. After marrying Jean-Pierre Silvestre Coster she exhibited under the name Vallayer-Coster. A prolific artist with more than 400 known works, she painted flower pictures, miniatures, and portraits in addition to still lifes. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 152; Mentioned: p. 151 url: Luna, Juan J. "Meléndez and the Development of Spanish and European Still Life Painting in the Eighteenth Century." In Meléndez: Still Lifes. Peter Cherry, and Juan J. Luna, 44-79. [Dublin]: National Gallery of Ireland, 2004. page number: Reproduction: P. 65-66, fig. 46 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.47/1971.47_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.47/1971.47_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.47/1971.47_full.tif