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Follower of Anne Vallayer-Coster

Still life of chrysanthemums, roses, jonquils, marigolds and other flowers in a glass vase on a ledge with a butterfly

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April 5, 12:44 PM GMT

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Follower of Anne Vallayer-Coster

Still life of chrysanthemums, roses, jonquils, marigolds and other flowers in a glass vase on a ledge with a butterfly


oil on paper laid onto canvas

unframed: 37.3 x 30 cm.; 14¾ x 11¾ in.

framed: 51.5 x 44.5 cm.; 20¼ x 17½ in.

The prominent white chrysanthemum and pink rose in this painting are found in a still life by Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818) in the Musée de Carcassonne.1


1 E. Kahng and M. Roland Michel (eds), Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette, exh. cat., Washington D.C., Dallas and New York, 2002–3, p. 214, no. 109, reproduced.