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Artist: Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818)
French painter
Title: Still Life with Brioche, Fruit and Vegetables
Object type: Painting
Description: A glass bowl, a brioche, a basket of peaches and a bunch of horseradishes have been arranged against a dark background on a cracked marble slab. The refined simplicity of the picture is typical of Anne Vallayer-Coster – one of the most successful women artists of 18th-century France. The still-life painting of Chardin, which dominated the first half of the century, was an important starting point for her art. But Vallayer-Coster developed a style of her own, with freer brushwork and a more nuanced palette.
Date: 1775
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Height: 45.5 cm (17.9 in). Width: 55 cm (21.7 in).
Framed: Height: 66 cm (26 in). Width: 75 cm (29.5 in). Depth: 6.5 cm (2.6 in).
Inscriptions (Swedish): signerad och daterad 1775
SKU: 273096
