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Attributed to Michel de Bouillon (Flemish)

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Attributed to Michel de Bouillon (Flemish)
<B>Attributed to MICHEL DE BOUILLON</B></I> (Franco/Flemish 17th/18th Century)<BR><I>Kitchen Still Life with Mother and Children, Infant Nursing</B></I>, 1702<BR>Oil on wax relined canvas<BR>29 x 23-1/2 inches (73.7 x 59.7 cm)<BR> Strengthened signature and date at upper left: : <I>A [...] Fe / M. Bou[...]lon / Ob. 31. A / 1702.</B></I><BR> <BR>Biographical details about the Franco/Flemish painter of still-life, kitchen, and interior subjects are few. He was apparently born in Ere near Tournai, where he was admitted to the Guild of St. Luke in 1638. It is possible that he was the son of Jean Bouillon, the teacher of the much better known 17th-century painter, Philippe de Champagne. It appears that he spent the greater part of his life in Tournai where, in 1670, he participated in creating the elaborate painted decorations produced for a visit by Louis XIV. His <I>oeuvre</B></I> has never been systematically studied or reconstructed, and few secure works are known, including an accomplished <I>Vase of Flowers</B></I> dated 1650, a fruit piece dated 1653 in the Musée d'Arras, a floral bouquet with butterflies of 1654 in a private collection, Brussels, and an elaborate fruit and flower piece set against an architectural background in the Doucet Collection, Paris.<B>Condition Report:</B> 3 x 1 inch inpainted repair in the middle of the signature. Minor scattered inpainting throughout.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Requires 3rd Party Shipping (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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