Still life of flowers, Jean-Michel Picart (Antwerp, 1600 – Paris, 1682)

Jean-Michel Picart (Antwerp, 1600 – Paris, 1682)

Still life of flowers

Oil painting on canvas
85 x 73 cm. – In frame 100 x 88 cm.

Provenance: Galerie Fischer Auktionen, Lucerne (Switzerland), 26-12-2014, lot 1015 (page 25 catalogue)* Est: CHF 17.000-25.000

The sumptuous still life on display is the work of Jean-Michel Picart (Antwerp, 1600 – Paris, 1682), an artist of Flemish origin who occupied a significant place in Paris during the Grand Siècle as a master in the field of floral still lifes: with its saturated colours, its dazzling light and its masterly compositions, the painting represents one of the best examples of his production.

After his apprenticeship in Antwerp, according to sources as a pupil in the workshop of Frans Francken II, around 1625 Picart moved to Paris, where he remained for the rest of his life, and had a brilliant career.

His appreciation is demonstrated by the great success that his still lifes achieved in the second half of the seventeenth century, sought after by many French collectors and by King Louis XIV himself, who appointed him court painter in 1671.

Numerous works by the Flemish painter were in fact kept in the royal palaces of Versailles and Marly, as reported by an inventory of the time: the bedroom of the king, the queen and the king's mother were all decorated with paintings by Picart, as were the bedrooms of the Palais Royal and the Palace of Fontainebleau.

Initially he painted still lifes in a refined and sober style, like those of Louise Moillon or Lubin Baugin, later he moved towards a more charged art and in his paintings he accumulated baskets, vases, curtains with a baroque effect, approaching Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer.

List of works
Flowers in a glass vase, Saint-Étienne, Museum of Modern Art
Basket of peaches and grapes, Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, 1640, Portland, Oregon Museum of Art
Flowers in a vase, Fontainebleau, National Museum of the Castle
Vase of flowers on an entablature, Troyes, Museum of Fine Arts
Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase with Leaf Decoration in Relief, circa 1630, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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