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Source Description
Saint-Jean was a prominent still life painter during the second quarter of the 19th century. He trained at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon, dedicating himself to flower painting early in his career and successfully exhibiting work at the Salon in Paris. Cut flowers or fruits dropped onto a forest floor occur often in Saint-Jean's work, giving them a slightly surreal quality to modern eyes. His paintings were often reproduced as textiles, and there was a strong link between artists from Lyon and the silk industry which flourished there. Similar in composition is "Flowers and Fruit," a still-life of 1853, showing grapes, raspberries, and roses, in the Wallace Collection, London (P601).
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Document identity
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14665
label
Still Life with Fruit
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obj
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drawing
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2
Source metadata
id
14665
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Still Life with Fruit
description
Saint-Jean was a prominent still life painter during the second quarter of the 19th century. He trained at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon, dedicating himself to flower painting early in his career and successfully exhibiting work at the Salon in Paris. Cut flowers or fruits dropped onto a forest floor occur often in Saint-Jean's work, giving them a slightly surreal quality to modern eyes. His paintings were often reproduced as textiles, and there was a strong link between artists from Lyon and the silk industry which flourished there. Similar in composition is "Flowers and Fruit," a still-life of 1853, showing grapes, raspberries, and roses, in the Wallace Collection, London (P601).
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore [before 1884, possibly from Goupil in 1863] [1]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] See Diaries of George A. Lucas, vol. 2, page 161.
date
ca. 1850
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
panel paintings
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2
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2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
34.3
height
48.3
dimensionsRaw
H: 13 1/2 x W: 19 in. (34.3 x 48.3 cm); Framed H: 23 × W: 27 3/4 × D: 4 1/4 in. (58.42 × 70.49 × 10.8 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] At lower left in black: Saint-Jean [remnants of an earlier signature ""St. Jean"" appear above the existing signature as pentimenti]
med
oil on panel
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3723
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EAN
exhibition_ids
3300
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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81aaf8ae1863c677
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2
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photo
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465c0263841a7efd
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no