Signed, lower left: Chardin Pt

Aignan-Thomas Desfriches [1715-1800] (Orléans, France)

by inheritance, to his daughter, Mme. de Limay

May 6-7, 1834, sold at Desfriches sale (Paris, France) lot 55 [including its pendant]

Mme. Becq de Fouquières (Paris, France)

May 8, 1925, (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) lot 17 [pendant was no. 18, purchased by Yves Perdoux]

M. Sherematieff (Paris, France)

Dr. Wendland (Basel, Switzerland)

purchased by (Kleinberger Galleries, New York, New York, USA)

November 1926, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Jean Siméon Chardin, Still Life with Dead Hare, ca. 1760, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.296.