Auctions → Ancient art, modern art and jewelry and clocks September 2015 → September 2015 → Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer: Gorgeous Flower Piece
Oil/canvas, 127 x 99 cm, min. rest., relined. - Expertise: Claudia Salvi, Paris, May 2014. - French flower painter. M. studied in Antwerp a. immediately moved to Paris where he became member of the academy in 1665. He painted for the royal palaces in Trianon, Marly a. Meudon. He accompanied the Duke of Montagu to London where he also worked for the royal court, among others in Hampton Court, Windsor a. Kensington.