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Paintings du 18th century
Preparatory study for a screen, 18th century
DIMENSIONS : l. 22.24 .inH. 10.83 .in
MATERIAUX : Oil on canvas
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?Rare seven-leaf screen project.
The composition represents a palace gallery, with a checkered marble floor and woodwork with seven symmetrical registers on a yellow background.
The latter represent arches made up of scrolls of garlands of flowers, with large bouquets in Medici vases positioned under lambrequin hangings.
The scene is animated by birds with multicolored plumages, including a Macaw parrot, a white cockatoo, a rosalbin cockatoo, a hoopoe, a green parakeet and two male and female peacocks.
If some birds seem quite serene like the two peacocks positioned at the ends, others are struggling with three young monkeys who vigorously shake the garlands in order to make them fall.
A certain disorder results from this agitation, flowers litter the ground, just like two satin draperies which have just fallen, but this does not seem to bother a small dog or even a small squirrel which peacefully eats its nut.
Oil on two canvases with traces of pencil preparation, one including six arches, plus one with a single arch (far left); the whole mounted on a large canvas and a stretcher in the 19th century.
Very good state of conservation; without frame.
Traces of signature lower right.
French school of the 18th century; probably workshop of Christophe Huet around 1740-1750.
