Louyse Moillon

French, 1610 - 1696

Biography“…One of the very rare women painters of the time, but also something of a prodigy. […Her] most memorable works are simple and sober reflections on the transformation of objects of appetite into the order of the aesthetic.” “In France, the genre was practiced around the middle of the century by artists with Northern and mostly Protestant affiliations…Jacques Linard…Sébastian Stoskopff…Lubin Baugin…Louise Moillon.” [Christopher Allen, French Painting in the Golden Age (2003), pp. 152-53]

“…Louise Moillon…the only known gifted female French painter of her century…. her cold, meticulous, technically faultless work.” “…There are few works in American collections by Linard, Moillon, or Stosskopff…” [Pierre Rosenberg, France in the Golden Age, Seventeenth-Century French Painting in American Collections, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (1982), pp. 197-98]

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