Credit Line:Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967
Accession Number:67.187.117
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): F.VALLOTTON. 25
[Galerie Druet, Paris, 1925; stock no. 11228]; Georges Simon, Paris (from 1925); [Jacques Rodrigues-Henriques, Paris, 1929; sold on October 26, 1929 to de Groot]; Adelaide Milton de Groot, New York (1929–d. 1967; her bequest to MMA)
Hartford, Conn. Wadsworth Atheneum. "Adelaide Milton de Groot Loan Collection," January 10–February 12, 1950, unnum. checklist.
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. "20th Century Flower Painting," February 1–March 31, 1991, unnum. brochure.
Munich. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung. "Félix Vallotton," August 25–November 5, 1995, no. 103 (as "Stilleben mit chinesischer Malerei [Nature morte avec peinture chinoise]").
Folkwang Museum Essen. "Félix Vallotton," November 26, 1995–February 18, 1996, no. 103.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Felix Vallotton: Woodcuts and Three Paintings," October 27, 1998–February 28, 1999, no catalogue.
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. "Picasso and the School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," September 14–November 24, 2002, no. 45.
Tokyo. Bunkamura Museum of Art. "Picasso and the School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," December 7, 2002–March 9, 2003, no. 45.
Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler. Félix Vallotton et ses amis. Paris, 1936, p. 336, no. 1579, publishes the artist's chronological list of works ("livre de raison"), where this work is described as "Nature morte: Un morceau de cake, une cafetière, une tasse et une bouteille en porcelaine blanche, des hortensias das un grand verre, tapis rouge. Fond peinture chinoise".
Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born in or before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1980, vol. 1, p. 189, vol. 2, ill. p. 323.
Marina Ducrey. Félix Vallotton: La vie, la technique, l'oeuvre peint. Lausanne, 1989, pp. 150–51, ill. (color), calls it "Nature morte à la peinture chinoise".
Bertram Müller. "Gefrierende Stillezwischen halbgeöffneten Türen. Félix Vallotton im Essener Museum Folkwang." Rheinische Post (December 2, 1995).
Rudolf Koella. "'Un amateur sans majuscule': Versuch einer Rekonstruktion von Vallottons Kunstsammlung." Horizonte: Beiträge zu Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft. Zürich, 2001, p. 427.
Marina Ducrey with Katia Poletti. Félix Vallotton, 1865–1925. L'oeuvre peint. Vol. 3, Catalogue raisonné. Seconde partie: 1910–1925 (CR 748 à 1704). Lausanne, 2005, p. 866, no. 1681, ill. (color), call it "Nature morte à la peinture chinoise".
Marina Ducrey with Katia Poletti. Félix Vallotton, 1865–1925. L'oeuvre peint. Vol. 1, Le peintre. Lausanne, 2005, pp. 160, 310.
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