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Le Déjeuner de jambon
Luncheon Party in a Park
Le Déjeuner de jambon
Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743)
about 1735
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
54.1 x 46 cm (21 5/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2649
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenanceBy 1756, Ange-Laurent de la Live de Jully (b. 1725 - d. 1770), Paris [see note 1]; May 2, 1770, La Live de Jully sale, Paris, lot 79, sold for 202 livres to Sevin [see note 2]. 1790, Pierre-Louis Eveillard, Marquis de Livois (b. 1736 - d. 1790), Angers; July 23, 1799, posthumous Livois sale, Paris, lot 192. 1925, M. le Marquis de la Rochefoucauld-Bayers, Paris [see note 3]. By 1927, David David-Weill (b. 1871 - d. 1952), Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine, France [see note 4]; 1937, sold by David-Weill to Wildenstein and Company, New York [see note 5]. By 1945, Jacques Helft Gallery, New York; February 1, 1945, sold by Jacques Helft to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 8, 1969)
NOTES:
[1] In 1756, the painting was engraved by P. E. Moitte, who dedicated his work to La Live de Jully. The painting is also included in La Live de Jully's collection catalogue of 1764; see Colin B. Bailey, "Ange-Laurent de la Live de Jully: A Facsimile Reprint of the Catalogue Historique (1764) and the Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux (March 5, 1770)" (New York, 1988), p. 37. It is a replica of a larger painting by Lancret, "Luncheon with Ham" (Chantilly, Musée Condé), commissioned by King Louis XV in 1735. It has been suggested that La Live de Jully commissioned the MFA painting, but given its approximate date this is not likely, as he was only ten years old in 1735.
[2] Getty Provenance Index, Sale Catalogue F-A233, lot 79.
[3] He lent the painting to the "Exposition du Paysage Français de Poussin à Corot," Palais de Beaux-Arts, Paris, May-June, 1925, cat. no. 162.
[4] See Gabriel Henriot, Collection David-Weill, volume 1, Peintures (Paris, 1927), part 2, pp. 223-225.
[5] "Sale of the David-Weill Collection," Art News, February 27, 1937, p. 12 and "David-Weill Pictures Come to New York," Art Digest, vol. 12, no. 3 (November 1, 1937), p. 13.
NOTES:
[1] In 1756, the painting was engraved by P. E. Moitte, who dedicated his work to La Live de Jully. The painting is also included in La Live de Jully's collection catalogue of 1764; see Colin B. Bailey, "Ange-Laurent de la Live de Jully: A Facsimile Reprint of the Catalogue Historique (1764) and the Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux (March 5, 1770)" (New York, 1988), p. 37. It is a replica of a larger painting by Lancret, "Luncheon with Ham" (Chantilly, Musée Condé), commissioned by King Louis XV in 1735. It has been suggested that La Live de Jully commissioned the MFA painting, but given its approximate date this is not likely, as he was only ten years old in 1735.
[2] Getty Provenance Index, Sale Catalogue F-A233, lot 79.
[3] He lent the painting to the "Exposition du Paysage Français de Poussin à Corot," Palais de Beaux-Arts, Paris, May-June, 1925, cat. no. 162.
[4] See Gabriel Henriot, Collection David-Weill, volume 1, Peintures (Paris, 1927), part 2, pp. 223-225.
[5] "Sale of the David-Weill Collection," Art News, February 27, 1937, p. 12 and "David-Weill Pictures Come to New York," Art Digest, vol. 12, no. 3 (November 1, 1937), p. 13.