Property from a Distinguished Canadian Private Collection
Anne Vallayer-Coster
Still life of flowers in an alabaster vase
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January 27, 09:38 PM GMT
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60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Property from a Distinguished Canadian Private Collection
Anne Vallayer-Coster
Paris 1744 - 1818
Still life of flowers in an alabaster vase
signed and dated lower right: Mde Vallayer-Coster an 9
oil on canvas, an oval
canvas: 14¾ by 17¾ in.; 37.5 by 45 cm.
framed: 21¼ by 24¼ in.; 54 by 61.7 cm.
Anonymous sale, Lille, Mercier et Cie, 23 March 1997, lot 170;
With Richard Green, London, 1999;
From whom acquired.
A rare and successful female artist, Vallayer-Coster was reçu into the Academie Royale in 1770 and exhibited at the Salon for the first time the following year. Her oeuvre consists mostly of still lifes, and unlike a number of other artists who were associated with the Royal Court, she was able to successfully continue her career through the Revolution and beyond. Indeed, the present still life is dated to year 9 of the French Republican calendar, or 1805.
A pendant to the painting, in which a similarly-composed bouquet of flowers are displayed in a wide blue vase, is in a private collection.1
1. Kahng and Roland Michel 2002, cat. no. 94, p. 212, reproduced.
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