Jean-Baptiste MONNOYER (Lille 1636 - London 1699)
Cut flowers in a cup on an entablature, on the right a hanging carpet
Canvas
Height : 67 cm
Width : 82 cm
Old restorations and small missing pieces
We thank Mrs Claudia SALVI for confirming the attribution after examination of the work on April 28
April 28, 2021.
Expert's report by Mrs Claude Salvi :
Although there is no old description to identify the painting, it probably belongs to the same context in which the paintings by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer and Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay for the
apartments in the "grande-aisle" of Versailles between 1682 and 1683. As with this series, it is a door overlay.
The perspectival point of view dictates the distortion of the container, which recovers its conventional dimension if the eye that looks at it is positioned at a certain place in relation to the canvas.
The tulip that has largely bloomed and is falling on the console mimics, in the opposite direction, the one in one of the prints of the suite of the Large Baskets (Robert-Dumesnil, 1858, t. III, p. 237). 237); the one that overhangs it in height reappears in other paintings by the master and notably in the signed painting, part of a pair, preserved in the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe (reproduced for example in Faré, Le Grand Siècle de la nature morte en France: le XVIIe siècle,
1974, p. 304).
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