French painter. The son of Louis Blin, who may have specialized in
flower painting, he is recorded from 1672 as training in the Paris
studio of Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, whose daughter he later married.
As a Protestant he was affected by the Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes in 1685, and he made a prudent public recantation of his
faith before being presented at the Académie Royale in 1685. His
morceau de réception, the Bust of Louis XIV (Paris, Louvre), is a
supremely confident painting. Over 1.8 m high, it shows the bust set
on a plinth between two columns, overlooking a vase cascading with
flowers, with fruit and armour heaped together below; it brings a
new spatial coherence to the genre of the ‘table-top’ still-life as
represented by the work of Jacques Linard, Sébastien Stoskopff and
Lubin Baugin.
Flowers in sculpted Urns
1690
Flowers in sculpted Urns
1690
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