Moyon, Louise

Born into a strict Calvinist family in Paris in 1609 or 1610. She was one of seven children, her brother, Isaac Moyon, also became an artist. Her father, Nicholas, was a landscape painter and portrait painter, and an art dealer, and her mother, Marie Gilbert, was the daughter of a jeweler. Louise received her first drawing lessons from her father, but he died when she was 10 years old. The following year, mother Muillon married another artist and art dealer, François Garnier. Garnier taught Muillon art. The Muillon family lived in the Parisian district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where there were many Protestant refugees from the Netherlands, including artists. These artists introduced Muillon to their traditional style of still life, which influenced the development of her special style. She has lived all her life in Paris. Louise Moyon died of heart disease in 1696.

Most of her works - still lifes , made by exquisite technique, were made in the 1630s, before marriage in 1640 to the wealthy merchant Etienne Girardot de Chancourt. Recent works were written by the artist in 1645.

Louise Moyon has developed her own special special style. The artist's works were very popular. Among the connoisseurs of talent and patrons of Muillon were representatives of the highest nobility of France and England, including King Charles I.

• A basket of strawberries and a basket of plums (1632) - Portland, Museum of Art,
• Basket with Peaches and Grapes (1631) - Karlsruhe , Kunsthalle ,
• Still Life with Vegetables (circa 1637) - Madrid , Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza,
• Still Life with Cherries, Strawberries and Gooseberries (1630) - Pasadena, Norton Simon Museum,
• Still Life with Asparagus (1630) - Chicago , Art Institute,
• Vegetable Saleswoman - Paris, Louvre Museum ,
• Market stall

• Andrzej Dulewicz, Słownik sztuki francuskiej , Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, 1977.

• Louise Moillon - French Still Life Painter