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29 - Anne VALLAYER COSTER (Paris, 1744 - 1818) Pot of plums, cake…
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Anne VALLAYER COSTER (Paris, 1744 - 1818) Pot of plums, cakes, jam and oranges on an entablature Original canvas and stretcher 50 x 60.5 cm Signed lower right "Melle Vallayer fecit"; inscribed on the reverse "Madlle VALLAYER aged 18 / I give this painting to my daughter Delphine / respect my will pouzol i January 1841 in the town of Etoile / Sayp". Old frame Old restorations Provenance : Collection of the Lyon region. This composition of simple everyday objects on a parapet is similar to the first paintings Anne Vallayer made between 1765 and 1770, before being admitted to the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture on 28 July 1770 as a still life painter. The financial backers can be seen in her painting dated 1769, Panier de prunes (canvas, 38 x 46.2 cm) in the Cleveland Museum of Art (see the catalogue of the exhibition Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter of the Court of Marie-Antoinette, Washington, Dallas and New York, 2002 - 2003). Anne Vallayer married Jean-Pierre Sylvestre Coster, a lawyer at Parliament and Receiver General, in 1781. Along with Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, she was one of the few women painters to succeed in the era of Louis XVI.
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About the sale Antique paintings - Decorative Arts
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Auction time 06/16/2026 at 2:30 PM
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