Of course, in this course in fifteen sequences sweeping many themes and centuries, fans of Chardin will not be disappointed.
There are three on the picture rails as well as game from Oudry, the most bizarre of Delacroix (a landscape with lobster, pheasant and dead hare in the foreground), bouquets of flowers, apples from Cézanne and many collections of shells and other marvels of nature duly pinned to canvas in the Age of Enlightenment.
And again: what facetious trompe-l'œil or austere vanities!
To consider these last gathered up to that of a Gerhard Richter, one says to oneself that, yes, these trembling candles, these skulls soon to dust, it is really us.
Definitively.
Greed Exposed
Modernity?
Here we come across the young Matisse.
At the Louvre, he copied the large painting of fruit and tableware by the Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Davidszoon de Heem.
The two oils are side by side.
A little further on, Braque and Picasso also make bottles, furniture... Styles change, things...
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