Anne Vallayer-Coster

Exhibited by Wildenstein & Co. Inc.

Material Oil on canvas

Dimensions 18 1/8 x 14 7/8 in

Status Vetted

About the Work

Provenance

Galerie Cailleux, Paris; acquired in 1950 by
Fernand Houget, Verviers; by descent to
The family of the previous owner
Paris, Christie’s, Women in Art, June 16, 2021, lot 10, illus. in cat. (color); acquired by
Private collection

Literature

M. Faré, La Nature morte en France. Son histoire et son évolution du XVIIe au XXe siècle, Geneva, 1962, II, no. 410. Illustrated

M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Paris, 1970, p. 130, no. 80. Illustrated p. 14

M. Faré and F. Faré, La vie silencieuse and France au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1976, p. 232, no. 361. Illustrated

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and elsewhere, Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette (cat. by E. Kahng and M. Roland Michel), 2002-2003 p. 207, no. 66. Illustrated