Lot 7: ANNE VALLAYER-COSTER

PARIS 1744 - 1818
A STILL LIFE OF MACKEREL, GLASSWARE, A LOAF OF BREAD AND LEMONS ON A TABLE WITH A WHITE CLOTH
signed and dated lower right: Mυme V. Coster 1787 and monogrammed lower right on corner of tablecloth: V C/ 6
oil on canvas
49.4 by 60.5 cm.; 19 1/2 by 23 7/8 in.

Paris, Salon, 1787, no. 72;
Paris, L'Hôtel des négociants en objets d'art, tableaux, et curiosités, Exposition des femmes peintres du XVIIIe siècle, 1926, no. 91;
London, Royal Academy of Arts, France in the 18th Century, 1968, no. 690, reproduced fig. 201;
Washington Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 30 June - 25 September 2002; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, 13 October 2002 - 5 January 2003; New York, The Frick Collection, 21 January - 23 March 2003, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette, no. 83;
Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Un peintre a la cour de Marie-Antoinette, 12 April - 23 June 2003.

Journal de Paris, no. 262, 19 September 1787;
Lanlaire au Salon académique de peinture par M.L.B...de plusieurs académies, Paris 1787;
M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster: 1717-1818, Paris 1970, cat. no. 227;
M. and F. Faré, La vie silencieuse en France: La nature morte au XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1976, p. 235, fig. 371;
A. Polak, Glass: Its Makers and Its Public, London 1999, fig. 73;
E. Kahng and M. Roland Michel (eds), Anne Vallayer-Coster, Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette, exhibition catalogue, London 2002, pp. 155, 211, cat. no. 83, reproduced in colour plate 41 and pp. 114-15;
L'EXPRESS mag (magazine supplement), 'Musées, le Printemps des mystères', 1 May 2003, p. 48, reproduced in colour;
P. Sanchez, Dictionnaire des Artistes Exposant dans les Salons XVII et XVIIIeme Siècles à Paris et en Province, vol. III, Dijon 2004, p. 1643.

Anne Vallayer-Coster;
Her deceased sale, Paris, Paillet, 21 June 1824, lot 31;
Cournerie collection;
Estate sale, Paris, Féral, 8-9 December 1891, lot 36;
Léonce Coblentz;
Felix Doistau by 1908;
His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 9 June 1909, lot 77;
Georges B. Lasquin;
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 21-23 November 1932, lot 424;
Doistau collection;
Their sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 5-6 March 1937, lot 31;
Art market, Paris;
With Saam Nijstad, The Hague;
M. Ph. van Ommeren collection, Rotterdam, 1970;
From whom purchased by Saam and Lily Nijstad.