Thursday, April 7, 2011

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painter of still lifes, Moillon Louise (1610-1696)

In just over ten years, Louise Moillon painted a dozen pictures in which the still life was its main character, becoming one of the most important French painters in the genre of still life.

Family Influence
Louise Moillon Nation in Paris in 1610. His father, Nicolas Moillon, was a painter and dealer art. When Nicholas died in 1619, his mother remarried François Garnier who also was an artist and traded with paintings.

is very likely that her stepfather, despite having signed only two paintings, was the teacher of Louise. A family teachings, Louise joined the influence of other painters such as Jacques Linard and René Nourisson.

Bodegones quoted
Thanks to inventory her mother did the work Louise, we know who painted 22 paintings, nine of them unfinished, between 1629 and 1637. During this time, the young painter became significant popularity among the nobility Paris coming to cross borders to draw attention to the very king of England, Charles I, who was one of his most famous clients.

Most of his works are still lifes of fruits and vegetables recreated down to the smallest detail. Joined occasionally human figures around her still as in the case of The fruit and vegetable vendor , work dated in 1630.

Marriage and waiver
Since 1640, the date of her marriage to Etienne Girardot, a lumber merchant, Louise's artistic production was reduced to near absence.

had three children who suffered religious persecution caused by the Edict of Nantes by Protestants condition.

Louise died in Paris in 1696. Currently her work is disseminated by various museums worldwide.

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