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Dogs, Dead Game and Fruit
  • Date: 1715
  • Object Type: Painting
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Image size: 128.5 x 161.5 cm
  • Inv: P594
  • Location: 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.