PAUL DORIVAL (GRENOBLE 1604-1684) DEAD NATURE... Lot 12

PAUL DORIVAL (GRENOBLE 1604-1684) DEAD NATURE AT THE GRAIN BASKET, 1660 Painting on canvas Signed and dated 1660 on the back 80 x 115 cm Certificate from Mr René Millet, expert. Provenance Former Mestrallet collection, Paris around 1952 Former Maurice Segoura collection, Paris 2000 Bibliography M. Faré, La Nature Morte en France, reproduced Volume II, figure 130. Geneva edition 1962. C. Bénédicte, Petits Maîtres de la Nature Morte en France, dans l'OEil, n°91 and 92, July-August 1962, pp 40-44. M. Faré, Le Grand Siècle de la Nature Morte en France, le XVIIe, Fribourg-Paris 1974 rep, pp 144 -145. Ch. Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Boston 1985, page 177. C. Salvi, Still Life in the 17th Century, Tour 2000, pages 76-77. E. Coatalem, La Nature Morte en France au XVIIe siècle, Paris 2017, pages 150-151. Paul Dorival (1604-1684) was a French painter active in Grenoble. An extremely small corpus of less than a dozen still lifes has been returned to this painter from Grenoble, on which there are few biographical documents. His frontal compositions, with wicker baskets filled with bunches of grapes, show a knowledge of Nordic painting and are to be compared with Isaak Soreau who trained with Jacob van Hulsdonck. Jean-Baptiste Pater (Valenciennes 1695-Paris 1736) is one of the rare painters of the fêtes galantes of his time. He is the son of the sculptor Antoine-Joseph Pater. He studied in Paris in 1713. He was there for some time the pupil of his compatriot Watteau, having fallen out with this irritable Master, he soon left for Valenciennes. In 1721, on his deathbed, Watteau called him back and made him his artistic heir, as it were. Pater gives a personal touch to describe French-style Galanterie, which he translates with a delicate brushstroke and a decorative palette. This amiable genre was highly prized by the bourgeoisie of the time. He died at the age of 41, his works being