Lot 6: LOUYSE MOILLON | Nature morte de pêches sur un plat d'étain, boîte de copeau 

Huile sur panneau

49 x 65 cm ; 19 1/4  by 25 1/2  in

Huile sur panneau

On the naked eye : The painting appears in a very good overall condition. It is painted on a perfectly flat cradled panel. There are several very thin panel cracks, perfectly stable, horizontally across the composition. They do not affect the lecture of the composition. The painting has been correctly cleaned preserving the material and the glazes. Under UV light : The painting appears under a very slightly green uniform varnish. We notice very slight restorations along the cracks already mentioned. There are also numerous small restoration spots scattered across the background and the ledge. There are also several little spots of restoration in the peaches. The painting does not need any restoration.
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Voici des fruits, des fleurs, des feuilles et des branches, Paris, Galerie Berheim-Jeune, mai - juin 1957, n°39 ;
Natures mortes françaises du XVIIe au XXe siècle, Paris, Galerie Daber, avril - mai 1959, n°9 ;
Flower and still life paintings of four centuries, Londres, Hallsborough Gallery,  1960, n°18 ;
Louyse Moillon (circa 1610 - 1696), La nature morte au Grand Siècle, Paris, Galerie Eric Coatalem, 13 novembre - 12 décembre 2009, n°3

Nouveau Femina, mai 1955, rep.
J. Wilhem, « Louise Moillon », in L’Oeil, n°21, 1956, p. 6 ;
M. Faré, La nature morte en France, son histoire, son évolution, du XVIIe au XXe siècle, Genève, 1962, t. I, p. 60, fig. 4 et t. II, pl. 64 ;
M. Faré, Le Grand Siècle de la nature morte en France au XVIIe siècle, Fribourg, 1974, p. 60, fig. 4 ;
Ch. Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Londres-Boston, 1985, p. 233 ;
D. Alsina, Louyse Moillon, La nature morte au Grand Siècle, Dijon, 2009, p. 148, n° 24, fig. XXIV ;
E. Coatalem, La nature morte française au XVIIe siècle, Dijon, 2014, p. 22 et 264 repr. 

Collection Robert Lebel, Paris, 1956 et 1974 ;
Acquis auprès de la Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienne, en 2010