Still-Life with Glasses and Bottles

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Stosskopf, who was born in Alsace and learned to paint from the Antwerp-born still life artist Daniel Soreau in the Flemish painters' colony at Hanau, specialized above all in glass still-lifes with delicate light effects. Joachim von Sandrart was to point out in 1675 that Stosskopf had painted 'many beautiful and outstanding works of still objects, such as tables and silver crockery'. This painting shows a large number of thin, Venetian-style glasses in a wicker basket.

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About the Artist

Sébastien Stoskopff

1597 – 1657

French still-life painter, active mainly in Strasbourg. He, like Louise Moillon, combined a Netherlandish tradition and technique with French classicism. He worked in Paris from 1621, returned to Strasbourg in 1641, but had been in Venice in 1629 and met Sandrart, whom he already knew. He painted in a spare, stiff, almost archaic style that has appealed greatly to modern taste - most of his paintings have come to light since the 1930s. The best collection is in the Musée de l'Oeuvre de Notre Dame, Strasbourg.

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