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Anne Vallayer-Coster, artist
French, 1744 - 1818
Still Life with Plums and a Lemon, 1778
oil on canvas
16 3/8 x 18 5/8 (41.6 x 47.3 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Benoist 1960.30
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: One of the most celebrated painters of eighteenth-century France, Anne Vallayer was the daughter of a goldsmith who worked for the Gobelins tapestry factory. When she was ten, her father moved his family to Paris, where he set up his own shop. Little is known of her formal training, but she must have been exposed to a wide range of artistic expertise. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin and JeanBaptiste-Marie Pierre, later First Painter to the King, were family friends. Her first recorded work is a portrait executed in 1762 (lost). In 1770 she was unanimously accepted for membership in the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.~~Although she painted some portraits, genre subjects, and miniatures, it is as a productive and versatile still life painter that she is most admired. Throughout her life Vallayer-Coster attracted the support of powerful patrons and fellow artists, and Diderot was an enthusiastic admirer. She married a wealthy lawyer and member of parliament, Jean-Pierre-Silvestre Coster in 1781, the same year she was given an apartment at the Louvre. She last exhibited at the Salon of 1817.~~While her work is undeniably comparable in style and subject matter with that of Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, Vallayer-Coster was not merely an agile imitatoi: Her continuing influence may be seen in the work of such nineteenth-century still life painters as Fran,cois Bonvin and Henri Fantin-Latour.
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Lemon a and Plums with Life Still Benoist Louis Mrs Mr Gift Europe France Painting canvas oil Anne Vallayer Coster French 7852312238480020 A300241 1960.30 EPTG
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