Still-Life

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still-life

This canvas represents a still-life with Hercules candlestick, silver gilt ewer, lemons and oranges on a sideboard dish, nautilus shell, and other objects arranged on a ledge with a column beyond. Many of the objects included in his paintings appear to have been inspired by the tableware that once formed the king's collection at Versailles.

About the Artist

Meiffren Conte

1631 – 1705

Meiffren Conte (also Ephraim Lecomte), French painter. He was a still-life painter who undoubtedly studied in Italy where he was identified as "Mons Conti francese". He is best recognized for his compositions that are crowded with elaborate and rich objects. Depicting rich goldsmithery mixed with nautilus shells was his speciality. He worked principally in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, but also in Paris between 1671 and 1680.

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