Still Life with Grapes and Flowers

Inscriptions

Signed verso, lower left: Melanie de Comolera peintre de S. A. R. la Duchesse de Clarence (somewhat illegible); recto: Mmlle De Comolera / peintre de S.R. la Duchesse de Clarence

Quick Overview

Artist: Mélanie de Comoléra (French, 1789-1854)
Date: c. 1827
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40.7 × 32.7 cm (16 1/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Framed: 52.4 × 45.1 × 8.3 cm (20 5/8 × 17 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: 19th century
Place: France
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Through prior purchase with funds provided by Eugene and Helen Huang in memory of Ada and Wilfred Polkinghorne, Justin K. Thannhauser, A. A. Munger Collection, bequest of Celia Schmidt Estate
Accession no.: 2023.3112

Provenance

Julian Simmons (born 1952), UK, c. 2005 [according to sticker on the verso and correspondence with Guillermo Pinilla, Aug. 11, 2023; copy in curatorial file]. Private collection (probably Steve Case and Jean Villanueva), Merrywood Estate, McClean, VA; sold, Potomack Company, Merrywood Estate Collection, Jan. 26, 2022, lot 500, to Sahen Fine Art, Paris; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.