Garden Still Life, with Implements, Vegetables, Dead Game, and a Bust of Ceres (The Attributes...

Anne Vallayer-Coster (Paris 1744 - Paris 1818). Oil painting on canvas, Garden Still Life, with Implements, Vegetables, Dead Game, and a Bust of Ceres (The Attributes of Hunting and Gardening) by Anne Vallayer-Coster (Paris 1744 - Paris 1818), signed bottom right: Mlle Vallayer / 1774. A plinth in a park, with a rake and scythe propped up against it; a cardoon, a gourd, a marrow, a melon, a cabbage, a tomato, and a sickle, at the foot of it; and on it, a gun, game-bag, two dead partridges, a hare, and the marble bust of a young woman with ears of corn in her hair, with a chipped base. Basildon Park, Berkshire (Accredited Museum)