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Bouquet on Wooden Box

1640 · Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

still-life

Wooden boxes in still-lifes in the 17th century often retained the significance they had in 15th and 16th-century Madonna pieces, and denoted the shrine in which the saint was thought to lie concealed.

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Bouquet on Wooden Box

About the Artist

Jacques Linard

1600 – 1645

French still-life painter, who spent his career in Paris. In 1631 he was named as a 'valet de chambre' of Louis XIII. His pictures are strongly influenced by the Antwerp school of still-life painters, especially Jan Brueghel. Linard delights by his use of bright colour, his painstaking work and a curiously powerful juxtaposition of boxes and flowers. His present status is only slightly below that of Moillon, Baugin and Stoskopff.

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