Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier French 1780 The marquise de Grollier was a highly accomplished amateur painter, a term that in eighteenth-century France implied an elevated social class rather than a lack of seriousness or skill. Unlike the period’s most celebrated still-life painter, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Grollier did not exhibit or sell her art; however, she was at the center of a rich artistic network, counting among her friends Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Hubert Robert, and the sculptor Anton
Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier French 1780 The marquise de Grollier was a highly accomplished amateur painter, a term that in eighteenth-century France implied an elevated social class rather than a lack of seriousness or skill. Unlike the period’s most celebrated still-life painter, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Grollier did not exhibit or sell her art; however, she was at the center of a rich artistic network, counting among her friends Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Hubert Robert, and the sculptor Antonio Canova, who called her the "Raphael of flower painting." As part of her training, Grollier meticulously copied works by her teacher, the fashionable Dutch émigré painter Gérard van Spaendonck, including this painting, which she signed "Marquise de Grollier, student of Van Spaendonck." View more. Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes. Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier (French, Paris 1741–1828 Epinay-sur-Seine). 1780. Oil on canvas. Paintings
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