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Still Life with Silver

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Still Life with Silver

Alexandre François Desportes

1720s

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

Garlands Fruit Flowers Still Life

Dimensions

103 x 73 3/4 in. (261.6 x 187.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Mary Wetmore Shively Bequest, in memory of her husband, Henry L. Shively, M.D., 1964

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Alexandre François Desportes

1661–1743 • France

Known for his paintings of dogs, game, and emblems of the chase. Although he continued the lavish Flemish tradition, he was among the first 18th-century artists to paint landscape studies from nature, and for this reason he was considered eccentric. John III of Poland and Louis XIV of France were patrons. Comment on works: Portraits; Hunting scenes; Animals; Still life

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