Still Life with Ray and Basket of Onions

Artist Jean Siméon Chardin (French, 1699–1779)

Date1731

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions16 x 12 5/8 in. (40.6 x 32.1 cm)
Frame: 24 1/8 x 21 x 3 3/8 in. (61.3 x 53.3 x 8.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number63.29.1

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ProvenanceCreated Paris, 1731. [The artist Hughes (1729-1785)?] Taraval collection, Paris; Chef Adolphe Dugléré (1805–1884), Paris; [his sale, Hotel des Ventes Mobilières, rue des Jeuneurs, Paris, January 31, 1853, no. 11, as Nature morte]. Paul Barroilhet (1810–1871) Paris, by 1860; [his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 15–16, 1872, no. 5, as La table de cuisine]. Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, Paris, 1876; Baron Henri de Rothschild (1872–1947), Paris. [Knoedler Galleries, New York, October 1963, no. A6718] [1]; sold to NCMA, 1963.

[1] Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 52, Row 36, Stock no. A6718.