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Description: | This painting is a copy of a work by Abraham Mignon, who was born in Frankfurt in 1640. A student of Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Mignon's work owes a great deal to his work. Most of Mignon's paintings are of minutely observed fruit and flowers. This copy was painted either in the late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century. The painting is close to becoming an allegory of Autumn', having an autumnal theme. The pear, plum, chestnut and Chinese lantern all fruit in the autumn, the exception being the peach which fruits in high summer. The insects are a symbol of decay, having eaten the inside of the Chinese lantern. The influence of seventeenth-century Baroque is visible in the sense of movement created by the twisting and turning of the stalks and leaves of the different foliage. | Subjects: | allegory (autumn decay); still life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Mignon, Abraham (German painter, 1640-ca. 1679) Æ After Previously attributed to after Heem, Cornelis de (Flemish painter, 1631-1695) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8863... | Go to resource |
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