- Title:
- Still Life with Bottle, Glass and Loaf
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- When this small still life was given to the National Gallery in 1888, it was believed to have been painted by Chardin. However, within 20 years there were already doubts about its authenticity.For a while it was thought that François Bonvin, or one of his contemporaries, had painted the picture, as there had been a revival of interest in Chardin among French artists during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. However, this attribution has also been rejected. Technical examination of the earlier layers of paint indicates that the painting was most likely begun in the eighteenth century, although it may have been completed in the nineteenth century.As the style, the handling of the paint and the signature are not consistent with confirmed works by Chardin, the painting is now judged to be a skilful pastiche by a sophisticated imitator.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1888-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1888
- Date - latest:
- 1888
- Acquisition source:
- John Savile, 1st Baron Savile of Rufford
- Credit line:
- Presented by Lord Savile, 1888
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 743/177/172/mid_N-1258-00-000046.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/995/354/556/mid_N-1258-00-000035.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/451/993/268/mid_N-1258-00-000044.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 38.10
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 45.10
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Inscribed
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- 19th century
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1800
- Date - latest:
- 1899
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1800-24
- Date - period:
- 1825-49
- Date - period:
- 1850-74
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Object production person:
- Jean-Siméon Chardin
- Person's birth date:
- 1699
- Person's death date:
- 1779
- Object production place:
- France
- Object production place:
- Paris
- Other number:
- NG1258
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0FSJ-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG1258
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-03YA-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng31258
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- neoclassical
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Eighteenth Century French Paintings
- Reference details:
- 113-6
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School
- Reference details:
- 29-30
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 112
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School
- Reference details:
- 16
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 668-9
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: A Room to Room Guide
- Reference details:
- 186
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, 1699-1779
- Reference details:
- 61
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Chardin
- Reference details:
- 132
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery with Biographical Notices of the Painters: Foreign Schools
- Reference details:
- 91-2
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Chardin
- Reference details:
- 235
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Chardin
- Reference details:
- 243
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Fine Art Gossip
- Reference details:
- 360
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A Gift to the National Gallery
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Fake?: The Art of Deception
- Reference details:
- 219
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Chardin and the Still-Life Tradition in France
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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