Still Life with Game

Artist Anne Vallayer-Coster (French, 1744-1818)

Place of OriginFrance

Date1782

DimensionsPainting: 28 × 35 1/4 in. (71.1 × 89.5 cm)
Frame: 36 1/4 × 43 3/8 × 2 1/2 in. (92.1 × 110.2 × 6.4 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1968.1B

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 27

Published ReferencesMS estate inventory of Jean Girardot de Marigny (Minutier Central, L/802, 23 Germinal an IV)

Paris, Salon de 1783, Reprint of Offical Livret in: Collection des Livrets des Anciennes Expositions. Exposition of 1783, Liepmannssohn, Ed., Paris, 1870, p. 27, no. 76, Tableau de Gibier, avec des attributes de chasse.

Bellier de la Chavignerie, E. and L. Auvray, Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école francaise, Paris, 1882-1885, I, p. 295.

Faré, M., La nature morte en France, Geneva, 1963, I, p. 180.

"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 73, no. 297, Feb. 1966, p. 71, repr.

"Accessions..." Art Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, Autumn 1969, p. 332.

Michel, M. R., Anne Vallayer-Coster, 1744-1818, Paris, 1970, no. 286.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 161-162, pl. 207.

Petersen, Karen and J. J. Wilson, Women Artists, New York, 1976, repr. p. 59.

Zafran, Eric M., The Rococo Age: French Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century, 1983, p. 136, repr.

Petit, David A., "A Historical Overview of Dutch and French Still Life Painting: A Guide for the Classroom," Art Education, vol. 41, no. 5, Sept. 1988, repr. p. 16.

Bailey, Colin B., Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris, New Haven, Yale, 2002, pp. 157, 288, n. 145, pl. 141, p. 159.

Exhibition HistoryParis, Salon, 1783, no. 76 (as Un tableau de gibier avec des attributs de chasse).

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; New York, the Frick Collection; Marseilles, France, Centre de la Vielle de Charité, Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette, 2002-2003, no. 69, pp. 19, 69, 96, 106, 111, pl. 34 (col.), p. 208.