The Vendor Loves, Attributed To Jp Caresme Around 1780

The picking loves oil on canvas 65 cm x 78 cm, with its carved wooden frame 18th: 82 cm x 97 cm. Attributed to Jean-Philippe Caresme. painter and engraver, born in Paris on February 25, 1734, died in the same city on March 1, 1796 (Ec.Fr.) "This delicate artist was the pupil of Charles Antoine Coypel, his beginnings were brilliant and from 1766 he was approved At the academy, he had started at the Salon of 1767, where he regularly exhibited portraits, bacchanal scenes, and still lifes from that date, and Caresme was a very versatile painter of great elegance. the best artists of the eighteenth century It was also a very remarkable engraver MUSEUMS: Bordeaux: Bather - La Rochelle: Saint Louis receiving the thorns of thorns Nantes: Holy family - Toul: Metamorphosis of Daphne. (BENEZIT) One could notably add to this list: Paris, Louvre Museum: Last words of Marie Joseph Chalier in the prisons of Lyon 16 July 1793 Dijon, Magnin museum: Centaur and bacchante Paris, Cognacq-Jay museum. Our painting, which shows with its loves triumphing the victory of love, also suggests by the presence of the arrows and the quiver that it makes suffer and with the representation of the artichoke, food rotten therefore ephemeral, it reminds us that the love is fragile and deadly.