Bronze Bowl of Flowers with a Parrot

Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (1634-99), called Baptiste

oil on canvas, 70 x 103cm

Carved and gilded Palladian frame with egg and dart and Vitruvianscroll ornament, surmounted by a shell, volutes and acanthus leaveswith swags of acanthus and oak leaves at the bottom, probablysupplied by Benjamin Goodison, c. 1735-45. Carved in pine this frameretains the original burnished water gilding.

One of a set of three paintings by Monnoyer in matching frameswhich now hang at Boughton and which were reframed in accordance withHenry Flitcroft's Palladian decorative scheme at Montagu House,Whitehall. Benjamin Goodison was working regularly for the 2nd Dukeduring the 1730s and 1740s and was directly involved in movingpaintings by Monnoyer from the old house in Bloomsbury.

PROVENANCE Ralph, 1st Duke of Montag. The picture originally hungat Montagu House, Bloomsbury and was transferred to the mew MontaguHouse, Whitehall in the 1730s.

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