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- Alexandre-François Desportes (1661 - 1743)
- Dogs, Dead Game and Fruit
- France
- 1715
- Painting
- Oil on canvas
- Image size: 128.5 x 161.5 cm
- Signature: 'Desportes. / 1715'
- P594
- Dining Room
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- The painting is a brilliant example of the more ambitious buffets Desportes began to paint at the end of Louis XIV’s reign. It is an adapted version of a picture dated 1712, formerly in the collection of Louis XIV and now in the Louvre, with a vertical composition and without the dog on the right. Another similar composition was probably painted for the Earl of Stanhope during Desportes stay in England in 1712-1713. Desportes followed the Flemish still-life tradition that was popular in Paris and that he absorbed from his teacher Bernaerts but developed a reduced, harmonious colour scheme and more dramatic compositions. The three dogs add a narrative element. The porphyry vase indicates that the painting was intended for a high-ranking patron.
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