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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Signed by J. Bernard and dated 1890, this extraordinary decorative object is a rare example of a late-nineteenth-century item produced for the connoisseur-tourist market. Using a painter's palette as a support the artist has decorated the surface with a series of over fifteen vignettes including scenes with Cupid and Psyche, a nymph and satyr, various scenes of women in landscapes as well as a still life of fruit with a rhyton, a hound chasing a stag and a chaffinch in flight, juxtaposed with more surprising details such as a leopard preparing to pounce from a tree and a gnome climbing onto a toadstool. At the centre right, painted in convincing trompe l'oeil, is a black and white 'photographic' portrait of a woman apparently pinned to the palette. A similarly decorated palette bearing the signature of J. Bernard is in the Ipswich Picture Gallery, while a third painter's palette decorated in a similar fashion appeared at Christie's, London, on 29 November 1991, lot 116. In this latter case each of the twenty or more scenes decorating the palette are signed by different artists. | Subjects: | mythology (Cupid and Psyche; nymph; satyr); figure; animal (dog stag leopard) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bernard, J. (French artist, active late 19th century) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8471... | Go to resource |
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