A. Ferreyrolles (active around 1880) - Bread, cheese and pottery

A. FERREYROLLES
(active around 1880)

Bread, fourme de Rochefort-Montagne and pottery on a wooden table

Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
73 x 59 cm
1881

Few things are known to us about this Auvergne artist, who could to be Antoine Ferreyrolles, born in 1842 in Murat-le Quaire, about thirty kilometers southwest of Clermont-Ferrand; his surname being also very widespread in this part of Puy de Dôme. The Murol museum preserves three of his paintings, local landscapes, and there is a Entombment, painted in 1880 for the decor of the church of Rochefort-Montagne. There is also a Still Life with Game, dated 1886, and apparently in the same vein as our painting. This is executed in a very realistic style, bordering on trompe l'oeil, visibly inspired by artists from the beginning of the 17th century, such as the German Georg Flegel, the Dutch Floris Van Schooten or the Antwerp artist. Clara Peeters. If we can appreciate the general balance of the composition, it is especially the creation of the cheese and the loaf of bread that impresses.