COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0000125
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aahi0000125
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Work Title (display):
Marine Still Life with Corral and Seashells
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1769
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Anne Vallayer-Coster (French, 1744-1818)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
Work Creator gender
false
Work Creator notes (display):
French painter. She spent her childhood at the Gobelins, where her father was a goldsmith. Though she thus belonged to artistic circles, when received (reçue) by the Académie Royale in 1770, on presentation of the still-lifes Attributes of Painting and Musical Instruments (both Paris, Louvre), she was known to have neither a teacher nor an official patron. She exhibited for the first time at the Salon the following year and achieved a success that never deserted her. She showed still-lifes (which were compared to those of Jean-Siméon Chardin), imitation low reliefs and genre scenes, the last reminiscent of those by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. From 1775 onwards her flower paintings attracted greatest attention: many of these remain in private collections (see Roland Michel), but among others on public view are those in Nancy (Mus. B.-A.) and New York (Met.). She also drew, painted miniatures (see Roland Michel, nos 36186) and executed life-size portraits. Her portraits were admired by her contemporaries, as is shown by the commissions she received for those of Louis XVI's aunt Mme Sophie and of Queen Marie-Antoinette (both 1780). Among her surviving portraits is that of a Lady Writing, and her Daughter (1775; Barnard Castle, Bowes Mus.). One of her series of portraits of Vestals belonged to Marie-Antoinette, who obtained lodgings for her in the Louvre and in 1781 signed her contract of marriage with the lawyer Jean-Pierre-Sylvestre Coster. However, the appearance of the portrait painters Adelaïde Labille-Guiard and Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun led to comparisons unfavourable to Vallayer-Coster, who then devoted herself to the genre in which her superiority was recognized. In her last Salon in 1817 she showed a large still-life, Vase, Lobster, Fruit and Game (Paris, Louvre), which belonged to Louis XVIII. Vallayer-Coster had a very personal way of grouping flowers, fruit, animal trophies, plate and domestic objects in a perfectly organized space over which the chromatic subtleties of her palette could play. With particular arrangements of selected forms such as flowers and fruit she built up a repertory, which, over the years, though hardly changing, became increasingly subtle. This unsentimental art sometimes achieved, in her assemblages of flags and drums, corals and shells, a strength unrivalled by any of the painters of her generation. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2006-07-27)
Work Style Period:
French Renaissance-Baroque styles
work_styleperiod
French Renaissance-Baroque styles
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
18th century
work_styleperiod
18th century
Work Style Period
false
Work Subject:
coral
subject
coral
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
shells
subject
shells
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
still lifes
subject
still lifes
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
oil paintings
work_type
oil paintings
Work Worktype
false
Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
oil on canvas
Work Inscription (display):
Signed; Dated
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Musee du Louvre
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Paris, France
Image Rights (display):
© Ronald Wiedenhoeft. Licensed for educational use via Scholars Resource: Saskia, Ltd.
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Work Rights (display):
public domain
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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