Anne Vallayer-Coster with Éric Coatalem, Champion of the 18th Century

"Her timelessness; her technique; that deeply sensitive, deceptively simple touch that speaks of a great artist..." With barely restrained emotion, Éric Coatalem lauds the work of Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818), which "contains the same poetry, the same play of color, the same intelligence of line, to borrow an expression from Ingres , as Chardin 's still lifes. She was extraordinarily talented. Unlike a traditional painting that tells a typical, theatrical story, her intimate universe invites you to take a journey in several stages. At first glance, we see a bouquet of flowers. But the more we look at it, the more we appreciate the magic of her touch and the soberness of her composition, which enable us to move beyond…