Lot 78 | Nicolas de LargilliŠrre (Paris 1656-1746)
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Roses, carnations and other flowers oil on canvas 161/4 x 13 1/8 in. (41.2 x 33.2 cm.) NOTES Sold with a copy of a certificate dated 25 July 1990 by Dr. Dominique Brˆme, who will include this picture in his forthcoming catalogue raisonn‚ of the oeuvre of LargilliŠrre. Following his early training in Antwerp and London, LargilliŠrre established himself in Paris, where he was to become one of the most successful portraitists of his generation, executing some 1500 portraits during his career. He was twice made Director of the Acad‚mie Royale, in 1734-5 and then 1738-42. Far rarer are LargilliŠrre's still lifes. Four such signed and dated works remain, executed during his second stay in England from 1675 to 1679 (see M.N. Rosenfeld, catalogue of the exhibition, LargilliŠrre and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait, Montreal Museum of Arts, September-November 1981, pp. 82-5, nos. 13-14, and pp. 82 and 84.) These reveal LargilliŠrre's assimilation of the tradition of Flemish and Dutch still-life painting, and have been compared to the work of Cornelis Huysmans, Rachel Ruysch and Jan Davidsz. de Heem, among others. LargilliŠrre's elaborate still life of 1678 at Chatsworth (for which, see ibid., no. 14) reveals also as strong a debt to the work of LargilliŠrre's senior compatriot Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1634-1699) as to any Dutch or Flemish prototypes. The present work, which Dr. Brˆme dates to circa 1680-1685, seems to combine the fluidity and light brushwork of Monnoyer with the simplicity of composition reminiscent of Antwerp artists such as Daniel Seghers and Nicholas van Verendaal.
