Still Life with Eggs and a Leg of Mutton

• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), pp. 44, ill., 130, no. 56.
• R[ose] M[ary] F[ischkin, “A Still Life by Chardin,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 19, 3 (1925), pp. 33–34, ill.
• Ella S. Siple, “Art in America: The Art Institute of Chicago – The Ryerson Collection,” Burlington Magazine 51 (1927), p. 240, pl. II.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), pp. 40, ill., 146.
• Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Art in the Century of Progress,” Fine Arts 20, 2 (1933), p. 61.
• Georges Wildenstein, Chardin (Paris, 1933), p. 228, no. 953, fig. 225.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1935), p. 26–27.
• Margaret Breuning, “Current Exhibitions,” Parnassus 8, 7 (1937), p. 31.
• R[eginald] H[oward] Wilenski, French Painting, rev. ed. (Boston, 1949), p. 124.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p.164.
• Daniel Wildenstein and Gabriele Mandel, L’opera completa di Honoré Fragonard, Classici dell’arte 62 (Milan, 1972), p. 112, no. 580, ill.
• Pierre Rosenberg, L’opera completa di Chardin, Classici dell’arte 109 (Milan, 1983), p. 115, no. R10, ill.
• Christopher Wright, The World’s Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day: A Comprehensive Listing of Works by 1,300 Painters and a Complete Guide to Their Locations Worldwide (New York, 1991), vol. 1, p. 440, vol. 2, pp. 62, 664.
• Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 61–63, ill.
• Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Dimitri Salmon, Fragonard : regards croisés (Paris, 2007), pp. 12, 226 n. 31, fig. 7.

• Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Exposition Chardin et Fragonard, June-July, 1907, no. 69
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 212, as Chardin.
• New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, Chardin and the Modern Still Life, 1936, no. 5, as Chardin
• Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College Art Gallery, Problem Pictures: Paintings without Authors, 1965, no. 19, as attributed to Fragonard.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, no. 21.

Camille Groult (d. 1908), Paris; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 21–22, 1920, no. 49, as attributed to Chardin, to Delaborderie for Fr 15,000 [seller, price and buyer are recorded in an annotated sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorisch Documentatie, The Hague]. Ehrich Galleries, New York, by 1923, to 1924; sold Anderson Galleries, New York, November 12, 1924, no. 56, ill. as Chardin, to William Macbeth, Inc., New York, for $2,200 [according to annotated sale catalogue in Frick Art Reference Library, New York]; purchased from Macbeth, 1924.