Perfume-burner supported by baby tritons and garlanded with flowers

French Painter

18th century

Perfume-burner supported by baby tritons and garlanded with flowers by French Painter

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Overall: 21 × 26 5/8 in. (53.3 × 67.6 cm); Framed: 23 1/2 × 30 in. (59.7 × 76.2 cm)

Classification

Paintings-Decorative

Culture

French

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906

Accession Number

07.225.457a

Tags

GarlandsTriton

About the Artist

French Painter

"French Painter" is a scholarly attribution designation used by art historians and museum curators to catalogue paintings produced in France — or by artists trained in the French tradition — when the specific creator cannot be identified with confidence. Rather than leave a work without provenance context or assign it speculatively to a named artist, curators apply this designation alongside an ap...

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