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Still Life Flowers Oil Painting Blaise Desgoffe#1694615

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Still Life Flowers Oil Painting Blaise Desgoffe#1694615
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Original Oil on Canvas Still life with Flowers, signed lower left by the artist Blaise Desgoffe and dated 1863.
Museum quality - Original period frame.

Size: 19 1/2" by 13" - 50 cms. by 33 cms. (without including frame.
26" by 19 1/2" - 66 cms. x 50 cms. (including frame.

Very Good Original Condition - Not re-lined - No restaured -

Not a reproduction.

Alexandre Blaise Desgoffe (Dumont-Desgoffe),
(1830-1901)

Alexandre Blaise Dumont-Desgoffe was born in Paris on January 17, 1830 and died in Paris on May 2, 1901. He is considered a still life painter from the French school.

Desgoffe began his formal training at the Beaux-Arts Academie with Paul Flandrin. He exhibited at the Paris Salons from 1857 to 1868. He was awarded one of Frances? most coveted honors into the Légion d?honneur in 1878.
As mentioned in numerous books on American still life painters, Desgoffe had an incredible influence on still life painting in the United States. In fact, "Ease, 1878" (a brick-a-brac still life known only from photograph because it was destroyed by fire) by William Michael Harnett (1848-1892), one America?s greatest tromp l?oeil still life painters, was the closest he ever came to answering the critics call for an American Desgoffe. William Merritt Chase?s (1849-1916) bric-a-brac still lifes were also somewhat influenced by Desgoffe.

In the 1870s he added Chinese, Japanese and Greek items, probably on demand. The Vase of Rock Crystal and Other Objects (exh. Salon, 1874; New York, ...
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<td>Reference
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<tr><td>Condition:Very good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1863</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Still Life Flowers Oil Painting Blaise Desgoffe</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Rosario - Argentina</td></tr>
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