Show a 391 -year -old French artist Louise Melon at the Kimbel Museum for the first time

Show a 391 -year -old French artist Louise Melon at the Kimbel Museum for the first time

A rare painting of French painting Louise Miclon is now displayed from the seventeenth century that has not been publicly seen in the Kimbel Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, providing a window on the mysterious artist’s skills.
The static life plate with a strawberry bowl, cherry basket, and the grape of the fox drawn in 1631 is depicted by attractive spread of the newly tracked fruit, and it was unknown to the experts until its appearance at the Paris auction in March 2022.

At Miclon auction; In October, the mosque sold the work to the Kimbel Museum through the New York merchant, Adam Williams.
Eric Lee, director of the museum, says: The Kimbel Museum was interested in obtaining work first and foremost because of his quality and superior condition, and because of the beauty of his appearance in the halls that Lewis designed and it was certainly the favorite of the audience.


This painting, which was acquired by one of several paintings on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the museum’s founding, is the first painting of French population in the seventeenth century. The work of Nicholas Busan, George de la Tor and Lu Nine’s brothers.

Melon was born in 1609 or 1610 to a Protestant family in Catholic France, and it may be a somewhat mysterious name today, but she gained fame in her life because of her still alive paintings, which capture fruits and vegetables as delicious jewelry.

She sold her first work in 1629 – a painting of a peach bowl – after its presentation in Grenoble, and it is believed that it received commissions from Louis XIII, King of France and Charles I, King of England, who owned five fruits for her and her works are still present in the Louvre Museum groups and the Arts Institute in Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum and the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadina..

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