Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-1699)

Early painting blossomed, led by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-1699) and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721).

A sale in Cherbourg featured two paintings steeped in the sensibility of the 17th century by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer and a talented representative of the Piedmontese School.

This summer session showcased a writing desk stamped Antoine Mathieu Criaerd, and other famous names including Monnoyer and Cartier.

360,640 €! That was more than double the high estimate for the still life masterpiece by the 17th-century painter, featured in La Gazette. Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer's sumptuous A Gold-Mounted Lapis Vase Filled with Flowers (...)  was auctioned today by Collin du Bocage at Drouot. 

This 1665 work is emblematic of the 17th-century flower painter’s precocious virtuosity and one of his early masterpieces.

A rare wool and silk elephant tapestry from the period of Louis XIV was featured in La Gazette in February. This complex and "grotesque" composition, woven in Beauvais from a cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1634-1699), doubled its estimate on Friday under the hammer of Delon-Hoebanx.

Open until March 4, the collegiate exhibition is a collectively organized show of the works that most excite art dealers in their upcoming auctions. Highlights on display include a drawing by Rubens (Kâ-Mondo), a still life by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (Collin du Bocage) and a painting by Shepard Fairey (Digard Auction).

The star of a group of early paintings, Jean-Baptiste Greuze  delivers here a self-portrait free of complacency, but filled with humanity, which touched the art connoisseurs.

It is hard to tell the age of this young girl painted by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, whose face evokes both the child and the adolescent.

Appealing Old Masters were on the menu for this sale dedicated to the graphic arts, which also included minor masters of the 19th and 20th centuries.