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Lot 351
  • 351

Jean-Baptiste Belin, called Belin de Fontenay Caen 1653 - 1715 Paris

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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste Belin, called Belin de Fontenay
  • Still Life of Tulips, Lilacs, Peonies and Other Flowers in a Vase Resting on a Table
  • oil on canvas

Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Claudia Salvi who, based on photographs, has identified this painting to be a work by Belin de Fontenay dateable to circa 1710.  She compares it to a signed work by the artist in the collection of the Musée du Louvre.1

 

1  see C. Salvi, D'après nature, la nature morte en France au XVIIe siècle, Tournai 2000, p. 194.