Basket of flowers with garlands

French Painter French

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Dating to the late eighteenth-century, this painting with its naturalistically rendered flowers may have served as a tapestry or textile design. It was part of the model collection of woodwork, paneling and seat furniture of Maison Leys, a successful decorating business, located at the Place de la Madeleine in Paris. Since 1885 the business was directed by Georges Hoentschel who installed the collection in 1903 in a museum-like display at Boulevard Flandrin, Paris. Three years later, Hoentschel sold the collection to J. Pierpont Morgan who gave the painting with the rest of the decorator’s seventeenth and eighteenth-century objects to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1907.

Basket of flowers with garlands, French Painter , 1770–90, Oil on canvas, French

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Basket of flowers with garlands, French Painter , 1770–90, Oil on canvas, French
Basket of flowers with garlands, French Painter , 1770–90, Oil on canvas, French
Basket of flowers with garlands, French Painter , 1770–90, Oil on canvas, French

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