Lot 156: Still life with a lemon, a pear, a peach, a pine cone and an apple in a pewter bowl on a ledge, a pomegranate and a half-peeled orange to the left

Claude Decombe, active 19th Century Still life with a lemon, a pear, a peach, a pine cone and an apple in a pewter bowl on a ledge, a pomegranate and a half-peeled orange to the left pencil, bodycolour 12½ x 16 5/8 in. (316 x 423 mm.)

Decombe was the pupil of the celebrated still-life artist Antoine Berjon. A fabric designer as well as an artist, he exhibited in Lyon in 1822 and 1823 and in Paris between 1824-28.
For a similar composition by the artist see E. Hardouin Fugier, Les Peintres de Natures Mortes en France au XIXe Siècle, Paris, 1998, p. 78.
The attribution has kindly been confirmed by Dr Etienne Grafe.