A note card, open with blank side face down, visible side showing at right a still life floral and fruit painting; at left an uncropped thumbnail of the same painting, surrounded by the "tombstone" information about the artist, and branding elements.

#ArtHerstory's Flowers and Fruit Note Card
Artist: Anne Vallayer-Coster
Artwork held at: The National Gallery of Art

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arranged with clarity and precision. The carefully balanced composition and delicate rendering of textures demonstrate Vallayer-Coster’s technical mastery and her ability to elevate everyday studio objects into an elegant celebration of artistic practice. #AnneVallayerCoster

A painting of dead game animals - a hare, a rabbit and two birds (pheasants?) - on a stone ledge or wall outdoors under a tree, against a cobalt sky. On the ledge with the animals is a game bag, and a gun with accoutrements.

Still Life with Game, 1782, by #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744-1818), who died #otd, Feb 27. Held by @toledomuseum.bsky.social; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St...

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A front cover visual of a book with the title in orange text down the right side. The featured image is an 18th-century still-life painting of seashells on a stone ledge.

A photo of the front cover (and an oblique view of the spine) of a book. The title is in black text within a white box in the bottom quarter. The featured image is an 18th-century still-life painting of seashells on a stone ledge.

Forthcoming this spring in the #IlluminatingWomenArtists series, copublished by @lhartbooks.bsky.social & Getty Publications -

Anne Vallayer-Coster
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A portrait-mode note card open face down to show the front and back covers. The front cover reproduces a painting of a seated white woman in a white dress with a lavender panel insert bodice. In her lap is a book, presumably of music; she holds a single page from the left side of the book in her left hand. In her uplifted right hand is a viol with a broken string. The back cover includes a thumbnail of the image, surrounded by information about the work and the artist, and some branding information, including a logo and social media icons.

#ArtHerstory's Portrait of a Violinist Note Card
Artist: Anne Vallayer-Coster
Artwork held at: Nationalmuseum Stockholm

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A painting of a partially trompe l'oeil decoration over a marble mantelpiece. In the center of the painting is a gold oval frame around a bas-relief that depicts a group of babies or cherubs building a fire. There is a garland of flowers, in colors of mostly pink or blue, draped over the oval frame and descending on either side so that the ends rest on either end of the mantelpiece.

Winter, C18th, attr. #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744–1818), who was born #otd, Dec 21. Held at
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A still life painting of food on a table partially draped with a white cloth. The artwork depicts, among other items, a large pale blue tureen with gold colored metal trim, a dead bird, grapes, bread, peaches, a wicker basket, a caddy for wine bottles, and lilies. In just about the center front are a ham with a knife handle sticking out from it, and a lobster with its left claw hanging over the edge of the white tablecloth.

Still Life with Lobster, 1817, by #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744-1818). Held by the Louvre, collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335... #NationalLobsterDay #womenartists #artherstory

At the right of this still life painting, a brown woven wicker basket sits on a stone ledge, heaped high with purple plums (at least a dozen are visible). At the left sits a clear glass tumbler filled with water, and two cakes in white molded paper: the first sits flat on the ledge, the second sits partially on top of the first, tilting down so that one end rests on the ledge. The background is dark.

Basket of Plums, 1769, by #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744-1818). Held at The Cleveland Museum of Art, clevelandart.org/art/1971.47 #artherstory #womenartists #NationalPlumDay UK

The simple but highly effective arrangement is characterised by picturesque brilliance and effective contrasts based on a colour palette of brown, white and pink. #AnneVallayerCoster

#AnneVallayerCoster (1744-1818)
Portrait of #VictoireofFrance (1733-99), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1779-81
Château de #Versailles
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A still life painting of a large, partially carved ham on a silver platter with a knife sticking out of it, sitting on a white cloth that covers a stone ledge. Behind the ham, toward the viewer’s right, is a clear glass bottle; further to the viewer’s right and next to the ham is a dark glass bottle with a red cap. In front of the darker bottle sits a bunch of about a dozen long thin pink radishes with white tips, with the green tops still attached.

Still Life with Ham, Bottles and Radishes, 1767, by #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744-1818). Held by the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, id.smb.museum/object/86971... #womenartists #artherstory

The colours are vivid reds and violets and a sense of immediacy is invoked by the growing moss, the cakes in their crisp papers, and the glass of water with its reflections. Vallayer-Coster painted a companion to this work—a plate of peaches and branch of cherries. #AnneVallayerCoster

Oil painting of a flower bouquet in a cobalt blue vase with a gold foot, sitting on a stone ledge. The dominant flower colors are pink, white and blue, with a little bit of yellow.

Vase of Flowers, after 1781, by #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744-1818), who died #otd, Feb 27. Held by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy; source, A Space of Their Own, artmuseum.indiana.edu/space-of-the... #artherstory #womenartists

The issuing of 4 new note cards in 2025 supports several new 6-pack sampler offerings, the 1st of which is

Still Lifes with Food,
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The set reproduces 2 works by #GiovannaGarzoni, & 1 each by #AnneVallayerCoster, #LouiseMoillon, #ClaraPeeters & #OrsolaMaddalenaCaccia

And the 4th new #ArtHerstory note card for 2025 -

Basket of Plums, by #AnneVallayerCoster
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It is our 3rd note card to feature work by this artist. The original art is held at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

A note card, open with blank side face down, visible side showing at right a still life floral and fruit painting; at left an uncropped thumbnail of the same painting, surrounded by the "tombstone" information about the artist, and branding elements.

Another new-in-2025 #ArtHerstory card -

We offer our 2nd card to feature art by #AnneVallayerCoster, artherstory.net/product/anne...

The art on the card is Still Life of Flowers in an Alabaster Vase and Fruit. The original art is held at the National Gallery of Art.

The label for a 6-card note card set. The label includes thumbnails of the botanical and or still life art on the front cover of each card, as well as branding information such as the Art Herstory logo and website address, and social media icons.

#InternationalFlowerDay is a good day to highlight #ArtHerstory's newest 6-pack sampler:

Floral & Botanical Art 4
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The 6 different card designs reproduce artworks by #AlidaWithoos #AnneVallayerCoster #MariaSibyllaMerian #RachelRuysch #AnnaRuysch & #ClaraPeeters

A painting of a still life depicted as an ornament, hanging from a bow of blue ribbon, containing foliage, musical instruments (horns, a violin with a bow, drums, panpipe, and others) masks, sheet music, roses in the middle, and at the bottom what seems to be ice-skate blades.

Winter, n.d., attr to #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744–1818), who was born #otd, Dec 21. Held by Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1817... #FirstDayofWinter #womenartists #artherstory #WinterSolstice

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A painting in an oval frame depicting, on a stone ledge, a basket of ripe plums, a gleaming glass of water (in which is inserted a branch of some fruit), a citrus fruit half peeled, revealing white pulp and transparent flesh. A knife blade is stuck under the basket of plums; about half the blade is visible on the ledge, and the knife handle extends out beyond the ledge.

Still Life with Plums and a Lemon, 1778, by #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744-1818). Held by the De Young Museum, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, www.famsf.org/artworks/sti...

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A still life painting in oil of a silver goblet and a short stack of four peaches, sitting on a stone ledge. To the viewer’s left is another fruit, possibly a plum, still on its branch.

Still Life with Peaches and Silver Goblet, 1778, by #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744-1818). Held by the Musée des beaux-arts Montréal; source, “Early Modern European Women Artists at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,” artherstory.net/early-modern... #womenartists #artherstory

Elliot C. Williams reports on today's "Here & Now" about #AnneVallayerCoster, with special focus on the @National Gallery's recent acquisition of one of her paintings!

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Pictured: Vallayer-Coster, Still Life with Flowers in an Alabaster Vase..., 1783
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Still Life with Plums and a Lemon, 1778, by #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744-1818). Held by Legion of Honor, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, www.famsf.org/artworks/sti...

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Spring, n.d., attr to #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744–1818). Held by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1817... #VernalEquinox #HappySpring #FirstDayOfSpring #womenartists #artherstory

Basket of Grapes, 1774, by #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744-1818), who died #otd, Feb 27. Held by Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy; source, A Space of Their Own, artmuseum.indiana.edu/space-of-the... #artherstory #womenartists

Still Life with Lobster, 1781, by #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744–1818), who was born #otd, Dec 21. Held by the Toledo Art Museum, www.toledomuseum.org/art/artminut...; on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art's Making Her Mark exhibition, artbma.org/exhibition/m... #artherstory #womenartists