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Still Life with Monkey, Fruits, and Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Oudry · 1724
Provenance
Ownership history
- Louis Aubert, Lyon (died c. 1886); his sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Lyons, April 12–13, 1886, lot 43, as Singe dérobant des fruits. Paris art market, c. 1970 [according to Opperman 1977 and telephone conversation of Opperman with Martha Wolff, July 12, 2005]. Heim Gallery, London by 1977; sold to the Art Institute, 1977.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, J.–B. Oudry, 1686–1755, 1982–83, cat. 32 (cat. 17 in English catalogue); traveled to Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, and Kansas City, Missouri.
Literature
Published references
- Hal N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, vol. 1 (New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1977), pp. 78-79, 528–29, no. P447, vol. 2, fig. 100.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1977–78 (Chicago, 1978), pp. 5, 11, frontispiece (color ill.)
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces (Chicago, 1978), pp. 25, 69 (color ill.).
- “La Chronique des arts,” Gazette des Beaux–Arts 6th ser. 93 (1979), suppl. to no. 1323, p. 77.
- Amina Okada, “J. B. Oudry, 1686–1755: La Tentation de la nature morte,” Le Petit Journal des grandes expositions 122 (1982), n. p.
- “Une Ténébreuse Affaire,” Apollo 117 (January 1983), p. 2, fig. 1.
- James Yood, Feasting: A Celebration of Food in Art: Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago (New York: Universe, 1992), n. p., no. 9 (ill.).
- Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 109–112, 111 (ill.).
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