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Flower Piece

Image credit: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

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Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer was the leading French decorative painter who worked for Louis XIV on many of his palaces. At his first Salon exhibition in 1673, Monnoyer exhibited four still lifes of flowers and his name soon became synonymous with flower painting. Contemporaries thought that Monnoyer's flower paintings so lifelike that the blooms lacked only perfume.

In this painting, Monnoyer has combined blooms which would not have been in flower at the same time. Spring blossom, narcissus, hyacinth and anemone are arranged with the feathered poppies, larkspur and roses of summer. The passion flower would probably have been a hothouse plant.

This painting once belonged to Sir Robert Walpole (first Prime Minsiter of Great Britain) and later to his son Horace Walpole hanging at his famous house, Strawberry Hill.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol

Title

Flower Piece

Date

c.1690

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 60.9 x W 73.6 cm

Accession number

K1349

Acquisition method

gift from Alfred de Pass in memory of Nora de Pass, 1936

Work type

Painting

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