Literature

Richard R. Brettell and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-century art in the Norton Simon Museum, New Haven, 2006, fig. 67f

Provenance

Jacques Philippe Le Bas, Paris, until died 1783
his estate sale, Paris, 1ff. December 1783, nr. 12
Laurent Laperlier, Paris, by 1860–67
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11-13 April 1867, nr. 19
J.W.G. Davis, London, 1867–69
his sale (J.-W.-G. D***), Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 February 1869, nr. 20
Maillet du Boullay, Rouen, 1869
his sale (M. D*** B***), Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 May 1869, nr. 1
Monsieur Edwards, until 1905
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 May 1905, nr. 5, to Lazard for Rothschild
baron Henri de Rothschild, Paris, 1905–31
his daughter, Nadine, Mme Adrien Thierry, Paris, 1931–died 1958
her brother, baron Philippe de Rothschild, Paris, until 1959, sold to Rosenberg & Stiebel
with Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, 1959, sold to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 59.9

Other works by Jean-Siméon Chardin

Child with a Spinning Top (Auguste Gabriel Godefroy)
1737-38

Dead Rabbit and Hunting Gear
1728-29

Young Student Drawing
c. 1738

Saying Grace
c. 1740

The Good Education
c. 1753