Jean-Siméon Chardin
The House of Cards
c. 173782.2 x 66 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower center on table frame in dark brown paint: J. Chardin
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 424
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 13
Literature
Christopher Baker, William Hauptman, Mary-Anne Stevens (eds.), Jean-Etienne Liotard, London, 2015, fig. 65
Provenance
Catherine II, empress of Russia (1729-1796), by 1774, for the Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg
purchased March 1931 through Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, and M. Knoedler & Co., New York by Andrew W. Mellon (1855-1937), Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 1 May 1937 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA
Other works by Jean-Siméon Chardin
The Kitchen Maid
1738
1738
Still Life with Game
1750s
1750s
The Little Schoolmistress
after 1740
after 1740
Fruit, Jug, and a Glass
c. 1726/28
c. 1726/28
Basket of Plums
c. 1765
c. 1765