A still life with a fruit basket and a glass of wine - Antoine-Benoît DUBOIS (1619-1680)

Antoine-Benoît DUBOIS (1619-1680)
France, circa1640
Oil on panel
31 x 65 cm

Originally from Dijon, active in Paris as a painter of ornaments and flowers, collaborator of Le Brun, also working on tapestry cartoons, Antoine-Benoît Dubois was received at the Academy of Painting and Sculpture on April 21, 1663 with a landscape. Mentioned by Michel Faré(1), his name is associated by Pierre Moisy(2) with a painting kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in La Rochelle and representing a Compotier rempli de fruits et autres objets. Entered the museum in 1869 thanks to the Société des Amis des Arts, it bore an old cartel with the name of Dubois.

1-Michel Faré. La Nature morte en France, son histoire et son évolution du XVIIe au XXe siècle, Geneva, 1962, t. I, p. 17 et p. 61 ; Le Grand Siècle de la nature morte en France, le XVIIe, 1972, p. 189-190.
2-Pierre Moisy & Lise Carier, Catalogue du Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle, 2nd edition, 1974, p. 35.