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Lot 224
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Léonard Defrance Liège 1735 - 1805

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Description

  • Léonard Defrance
  • A still life of a silver cafetière with a vincennes porcelain cup and saucer, a little jug of milk, a bread roll and a knife on a tray
  • oil on panel

Provenance

Baron van Zuylen.

Catalogue Note

Only a few still lifes by the Liègois painter Léonard Defrance are known.  One is in the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht; another, whereabouts unknown, is believed to be its pendant; a third was sold in New York in 1980, and several overdoors are in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Liège.  They reflect the artist's considerable French experience in Castres, Toulouse and Paris (he has been described as a friend of Fragonard), and are clearly influenced by Chardin.  They probably all pre-date Defrance's journey to Holland in 1773, which seems to have brought about a profound change in his output which thereafter consists principally of genre scenes and depictions of industry.