id: 146148 accession number: 1971.47 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.47 updated: 2025-02-09 03:36:14.489000 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, Cleveland, OH (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, Cleveland, OH (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 * {'description': 'Salon, Paris, France (1771).', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'English, French, Italian, Netherlandish, Spanish, and German Art, National museum, Stockholm, Sweden (1918).', 'opening_date': '1918-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Three Centuries of Still Life, Göteborg Art Museum, Sweden, (April 28-May 17, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-04-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Five Centuries of French Art, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden (15 August-9 November).', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Luis Melendez: Bodegones, Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid, Spain (Feb. 17 - May 16, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2004-02-17T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Baron Herzog, Budapest, Hungary date: footnotes: citations: Axel Ryden, Stockholm, Sweden date: 1918 footnotes: citations: Osborn Kling, Stockholm, Sweden date: 1934 footnotes: citations: (Sale: H. Bukowski, Stockholm, Sweden, September 25-26, 1934, no. 323) date: September 25-26, 1934 footnotes: citations: Thorsten Laurin, Stockholm, Sweden, and his daughter Mrs. B. Stjernsward, Sakanor, Sweden date: 1938 footnotes: citations: (Sale: Sotheby's, London, June 24, 1970, no. 4) date: June 24, 1970 footnotes: citations: [Old Masters Gallery, London, England] date: footnotes: citations: [H. Shickman Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1971 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1971- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Paris, Salon, 1771. page number: cat. no. 147 url: Collection des livrets des anciennes expositions depuis 1673 jusqu'en 1800. Paris: Liepmannssohn et Dufour, 1869. . page number: p. 29, no. 147; url: Engelska, franska, italienska, nederländska, spanka och tyska konstverk: Utst. Nationalmuseum 1918. 1918. page number: cat. no. 40 url: Bukowskis (Firm). Möbler, bronser, skulptur. mattor ... silver, keramik, oljemålningar. 1934. page number: no. 323, illus. pl. 37 url: Laurin, Thorsten, and Ragnar Hoppe. Katalog över Thorsten Laurins samling av mäleri och skulptur. Stockholm: [P.A. Norstedt], 1936. page number: no. 399, pl. 218 url: Matthiesen konsthandel A.-B. Stilleben fran tre århundraden. [Göteborg]: [Isacsons], 1938. page number: cat. no. 52. url: Nationalmuseum (Stockholm). Fem sekler Fransk konst: bilder från utställningen i Nationalmuseum [Stockholm. 15 augusti-9 november 1958]. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 1958. page number: cat. no. 102 url: Sotheby's (Firm). Important Old Master Paintings. 1970. page number: no. 4 url: Roland Michel, Marianne. Anne Vallayer-Coster, 1744-1818. Paris (5e): C.I.L. [Comptoir international du livre, 24, rue des Carmes], 1970. page number: no. 183, p. 155 url: 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: Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1971.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 1 (1972). page number: cat. no. 56 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152412 Michel, Marianne Roland, and Ursula Korneitchouk. “A Basket of Plums.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 2 (1973). page number: pp. 52-59, figs. 4, 5, 6, 10 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152471 Clark, Carol C. “Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin: Still Life with Herring.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 9 (1974). page number: 309, 314, n. 2, fig. 2 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152549 Faré, Michel, and Fabrice Faré. La vie silencieuse en France: la nature morte au XVIIIe siècle. Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1976. page number: p. 217, fig. 332 url: Weisberg, Gabriel P., and William S. Talbot. Chardin and the Still-Life Tradition in France. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979. page number: cat. no. 7 url: Kahng, Eik, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Marianne Roland Michel, and Colin B. Bailey. Anne Vallayer-Coster, Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette. [Dallas, TX]: Dallas Museum of Art, 2002. page number: cat. 2, fig. 7, p. 197; url: Cherry, Peter, Juan J. Luna, Natacha Seseña, and Luis Meléndez. Luis Meléndez: bodegones. [Madrid]: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2004. page number: cat., fig. 42, p. 95 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