Anne Vallayer-Coster (Paris 1744-1818 Paris)

Vase de fleurs et raisins posés sur un entablement

成交价 欧元 400,000
估价
欧元 150,000 – 欧元 250,000
估价不包括买家酬金。成交总额为下锤价加以买家酬金及扣除可适用之费用。
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Anne Vallayer-Coster (Paris 1744-1818 Paris)

Vase de fleurs et raisins posés sur un entablement

成交价 欧元 400,000
拍品终止拍卖: 2021年6月16日
成交价 欧元 400,000
拍品终止拍卖: 2021年6月16日
细节
Anne Vallayer-Coster (Paris 1744-1818 Paris)
Vase de fleurs et raisins posés sur un entablement
signé et daté ‘M Vall Coster / 1781’ (en bas à droite)
huile sur toile, sur sa toile d'origine
46 x 38 cm.
Vase of flowers and grapes on a stone ledge
signed and dated 'M. Vall Coster / 1781' (lower right)
oil on canvas, unlined
18 1/8 x 14 7/8 in.

来源
Acquis par le suivant à la galerie Cailleux en 1950 ;
Collection Fernand Houget, Belgique ;
Resté depuis dans la famille du précédent propriétaire.
出版
M. Faré, La Nature morte en France. Son histoire et son évolution du XVIIe au XXe siècle, Genève, 1962, t. II, n°410, reproduit.
M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Paris, 1970, p. 130, n°80, reproduit.
M. et F. Faré, La vie silencieuse en France au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1976, p. 232, n°361, reproduit.
E. Kahng et M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster. Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette, cat. exp., Washington, National Gallery of Art, Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, New York, The Frick Collection, 2002-2003, p. 207, n°66, reproduit.
展览
Londres, Royal Academy, European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, 1954-1955, n°187.
更多详情
In July 1770, the twenty-six year old Anne Vallayer presented her candidature for the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. The Academy offered artists access to official commissions and had the de facto power to transform their careers. Being a member was crucial if an artist was to gain recognition from their peers and have access to royal commissions. That day she was received in front of an assembly of the great artists of her time such as Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, Joseph-Marie Vien, and even Chardin, to whom she was so often compared.

It would not be an overstatement to use the term "pioneer" when considering the many advances she initiated. Anne Vallayer, (who became Vallayer-Coster on her marriage in 1781), was the first French woman to be accepted into the Académie after 1706 ban on female members. She was the first woman artist to join without being the daughter of a painter or the wife of an artist already in the institution. Finally, she was the first woman to obtain an artist's flat in the Louvre, which she initially occupied alone.

On the day of her acceptance Vallayer presented two still lifes, both now in the Louvre, the subjects of which were the same as those painted by Chardin four years earlier: Les attributs de la peinture, sculpture et architectures (inv. no. 8259), and Les attributs de la musique (inv. no. 8260). The artist's boldness paid off, as it was decided she would be admitted to the institution without having to prepare a 'morceau de réception', a rare privilege granted to few artists, though one that Chardin had himself enjoyed a few years earlier. Once admitted it became possible for her to exhibit at the Salons and her collectors multiplied; these included many prestigious members of the aristocracy, including the Countess du Barry, the Marquis de Marigny, the Prince de Conti and even the Queen, Marie-Antoinette.

Although she also excelled in portrait painting, Vallayer-Coster was especially noted for her still lifes. Her delicate, precise manner, with a wonderful layering of paint glazes, was described in the language of the time as "molten", in contrast to Chardin’s style which was labelled "jagged" (see P. C. Lévêque, Dictionnaire des arts de peinture, sculpture, et gravure, Paris, 1788-1791). The present painting, dated 1781, is a fine example of the artist's style. The canvas remains unlined, and the impasto is well preserved; this is a beautifully modelled composition, executed with a surety of touch that renders the porcelain vase with perfect naturalism and painterly bravura. These lustrous vases are a repeated motif in her works; for instance, the Metropolitan Museum in New York has a still life, dated 1780, that includes a vase in the same bluish tones (E. Kahng, op. cit., n°61) and an identical vase is used in an undated still life in the Nancy Museum (see E. Kahng, op. cit., n°135), suggesting that it may have been a studio prop.

Despite her success during her lifetime, or perhaps because of the prestige of her patrons, the painter’s reputation suffered after the revolution from the rejection of the Ancien Régime artists, who had been too close to the Queen and those disposed from power. Selective art history – often only concerned with male painters – subsequently chose a single painter in the 19th century to embody the still life in France: Chardin. His "jagged" style may have been seen as more virile by the Romantic artists who followed. In contrast, Vallayer-Coster's still lifes were swiftly relegated to the realm of the feminine, and therefore deemed less worthy of interest by certain artists and historians. However, if Chardin is said to have inspired the Impressionists with his lively and spontaneous style, the explosion of colour in Vallayer-Coster's still lifes and her fine and precise touch find an echo in the works of Manet or Fantin-Latour. Indeed, the latter could have studied Vallayer-Coster in the Louvre, a place where he liked to copy the "old masters".

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