Anne Vallayer-Coster
Vase of Flowers and Conch Shell
178050.2 x 38.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated (lower right): Mlle Vallayer / 1780
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
Literature
Yuriko Jackall et al., America collects eighteenth-century French painting, Washington; London, 2017, p. 81, fig. 12
Provenance
Monsieur Cournerie, Paris, until 1891
his estate sale, Féral, Paris, 8-9 December 1891, nr. 28
Georges Hoentschel, Paris, until 1906, sold to Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, 1906