Still Life with Melons, 1865. Couder trained at the School of Fine Arts in Paris and specialized in still lifes. Two of his paintings were purchased by Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, emperor of France. William T. Walters collected two still lifes in watercolour by the artist, who exhibited reguarly at the Salon in Paris.

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