Exhibit
The exhibition titled “Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie Antoinette," was the first exhibit on Anne Vallayer-Coster to provide a proper, all-encompassing representation of her paintings. It has been hung in the temporary display gallery at the Frick Collection. Organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, and curated by Eik Kahng, this exhibition had its debut at the National Gallery of Art, where it opened on June 30, 2002 and closed on September 22 of the same year.
Containing more than thirty-five of Vallayer-Coster’s paintings, which were provided by both museums and private collectors of France and the United States, this exhibit was supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
One of her most accomplished works, and one of the highlights of this exhibition, is Still Life with Seashells and Coral (1769). Later in life, in the Still Life with Lobster (1817), which was to be her last painting, she managed what an expert called "a summation of her career," depicting most of her previous subjects together in a work she donated to the restored King Louis XVIII.
To gain an understanding of the magnitude of Vallayer-Coster's achievements, the exhibition includes additional works by such renowned artists as Chardin, her elder and the celebrated master of still life painting, and her contemporary Henri-Horace Roland Delaporte, among others.
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