id: 147607 accession number: 1974.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.1 updated: 2024-08-10 14:47:54.757000 Still Life with Herrings, c. 1735. Jean-Siméon Chardin (French, 1699–1779). Oil on canvas; framed: 58.5 x 50.5 x 8.5 cm (23 1/16 x 19 7/8 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 41 x 33.6 cm (16 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1974.1 title: Still Life with Herrings title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1735 creation date earliest: 1730 creation date latest: 1740 current location: 216B French and German creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. 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 * Jean-Siméon Chardin (French, 1699–1779) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 58.5 x 50.5 x 8.5 cm (23 1/16 x 19 7/8 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 41 x 33.6 cm (16 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: "chardin" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1974 opening date: 1975-03-11T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975). title: Chardin, 1699 - 1779 opening date: 1979-01-29T05:00:00 Chardin, 1699 - 1779. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (co-organizer) (January 26-April 30, 1979); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (June 6-August 12, 1979); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (co-organizer) (September 11-November 19, 1979). title: The Magic of Still Life opening date: 1986-11-04T05:00:00 The Magic of Still Life. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 1986-February 1, 1987). title: Conserving the Past for the Future opening date: 2001-03-04T00:00:00 Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001). title: Masterworks from The Phillips Collection opening date: 2005-02-20T00:00:00 Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005). title: Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin opening date: 2010-10-17T00:00:00 Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin. Palazzo dei Diamanti, 44110 Ferrara, Italy (October 17, 2010-January 30, 2011); Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (February 28-May 29, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Exposition Retrospective, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France, (1873).', 'opening_date': '1873-01-01T04:56:02Z'} * {'description': 'Exposition Chardin et Fragonard, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France (June-July, 1907).', 'opening_date': '1907-06-01T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'French Still Life from Chardin to Cézanne, Arnold Seligmann-Helft Galleries, New York, NY (October 29-November 22, 1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-10-29T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Dr. Benoist date: Until 1857 footnotes: citations: (Benoist sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 30, 1857, no. 12, probably sold to Monsieur R.) date: March 30, 1857 footnotes: citations: Monsieur R., Paris date: Probably 1857-1860 footnotes: citations: (Monsieur R. collection sale, Rouillard, Paris, April 28, 1860, no. 12, possibly sold to Henri date: April 28, 1860 footnotes: citations: Henri Viollet [1849-1926?], Tours, France date: Possibly 1860-by 1881 footnotes: *
1  Viollet may have purchased the painting at the 1860 Lecocq sale of the collection of Monsieur R.  The 1881 sale at Hôtel Drouot of Viollet's collection does not include this painting, and thus, it was most likely no longer in his possession by that point. 
citations: Alfred [1811-1893] and Paul [1833-1903] Mame, Tours, France date: Until 1904 footnotes: *
1 Alfred and Paul Mame were father and son.
citations: (Mame sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, April 26-29, 1904, no. 7, sold to Alexis Vollon) date: April 26-29, 1904 footnotes: citations: Alexis Vollon [1865-1945], Paris, France date: 1904-1909 footnotes: citations: David David-Weill [1871-1952], Paris, France date: By 1925-1952 footnotes: *
1 David David-Weill was a prominent art collector in Paris.  In 1937 he sold many objects to Wildenstein & Co., and then in 1940, he fled Paris.  At this time, much of his collection was seized by the Nazis, and many of these items were returned to him after the war.  This painting, however, appears to have remained in David-Weill’s collection throughout the war and until 1952; it appears in no databases of looted objects or in NARA’s archival records.  
citations: (Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, NY, sold to Sidney J. Lamon) date: 1952 footnotes: *
1 Rosenberg and Stiebel purchased this painting from Lazard Frères, the financial firm of which David-Weill was chairman.
citations: Sidney J. Lamon [d. 1973], New York, NY date: 1952-1973 footnotes: citations: (Sale, Christie’s, London, June 29, 1973, no. 21, sold to Frederick Mont/Newhouse Galleries) 1 date: June 29, 1973 footnotes: *
1 The buyer listed in the catalogue is "Newhoune" [sic].
citations: (Frederick Mont and Newhouse Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1973-1974 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1974- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux anciens et modernes de l'école franc̦aise. March 30, 1857. page number: url: "Chronique, Documents, Faits Divers," Revue Universelle des Arts, VI (1857). page number: p. 181 url: Rouillard. Tableaux anciens. April 28, 1860. page number: url: Album de l'Exposition rétrospective des beaux-arts de Tours. Tours: Georget-Joubert, 1873. page number: url: Darcel, Alfred. Exposition rétrospective de Tours, par ... Alfred Darcel. Tours: Georget-Joubert, 1873. page number: cat.no. 501 url: Galerie Georges Petit. Tableaux anciens et modernes. April 26-29, 1904. page number: url: Comité Chardin et Fragonard (Paris), and Galerie Georges Petit (Paris). Exposition Chardin et Fragonard: Galeries Georges Petit, Paris ; juin-juillet 1907. 1907. page number: cat. no. 68 url: Guiffrey, Jean "Exposition Chardin-Fragonard," Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, XXII, (1907). page number: p. 102 url: Maurice Tourneux, "L'Exposition Chardin-Fragonard," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XXXVIII (1907). page number: p. 98 url: Henri Frantz, "The Chardin-Fragonard Exhibition in Paris," The Studio, XLII (1908). page number: p. 29 url: Otto Grautoff, "Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin," Kunst und Künstler, VI (1908). page number: p. 498 url: Guiffrey, Jean. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint et dessiné de J.-B. Siméon Chardin: suivi de la liste des gravures exécutées d'après ses ouvraves. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1908. page number: p. 90, no. 220 url: Dayot, Armand, and Léandre Vaillat. L'œuvre de J.-B.-S. Chardin et de J.-H. Fragonard. Paris: F. Gittler, 1908. page number: see Introduction, and nn. on p. iv, no. 19 url: Furst, Herbert. Chardin. London: Methuen & Co, 1911. page number: 2, pl. 111 url: Henriot, Gabriel. Collection David-Weill. Paris : Braun & Cie, 1926. page number: pp. 35- 37 url: Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin. Paris: Les Beaux-arts, édition d'études et de documents, 1933. page number: no. 896, fig. 125, and no. 898 url: Arnold Seligmann-Helft Galleries. French Still Life from Chardin to Cezanne. Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Quaker Emergency Service. 1947. page number: cat. no. 9 url: Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin. [Zürich]: Manesse, 1963. page number: ), no. 272., fig. 127, and no. 56, fig. 27 url: Wildenstein, Georges, and Daniel Wildenstein. Chardin. Greenwich, Conn: New York Graphic Society, 1969. page number: no. 272, fig. 127, and no. 56, fig. 27 url: Christie, Manson & Woods. Highly Important Pictures by Old Masters. 1973. page number: url: Davis, Frank. "Talking about Salerooms: 'King of Pots and Pans'" Country Life (August 16, 1973). page number: p. 434 url: 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: p. 285, figs. 3 and 4 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152549 Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1974.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (1975). page number: cat.no. 46 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152580 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 178 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n198 Rosenberg, Pierre, Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin, and Sally W. Goodfellow. Chardin, 1699-1779: A Special Exhibition Organized by the Réunion Des Musées Nationaux, Paris, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979. page number: cat.no. 48 url: Johnson, Mark M. Chardin, 1699-1799: notes on the exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979. Cleveland: [s.n.], 1979. page number: p. 16, figs. 10 and 11 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: Mentioned: p. 60-61; Reproduced: p. 60 url: Borowitz, Helen O. “The Watteau and Chardin of Marcel Proust.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 1 (1982). page number: p. 18 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159754 Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon, and Pierre Rosenberg. Chardin: il pittore del silenzio. Ferrara: Ferrara arte, 2010. page number: ex. cat. no. 21, p. 112-113 url: Bourg, Alexis Merle Du. "Il Maestro Delle Nature "Inanimate."" Chardin suppl. no. 272 (Dec. 2010). page number: p. 21 url: Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon, and Pierre Rosenberg. Chardin, 1699-1779. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2011. page number: cat. no. 21, pp 112-5 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 193 url: Merle du Bourg, Alexis. Chardin. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2020. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 219-221, no. 202 & 203 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.1/1974.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.1/1974.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.1/1974.1_full.tif