Still Life with Pheasant

Technique: Canvas, oil.
Size: 74 × 92.5 cm.

Still Life with a Pheasant belongs to the genre practised by Hortense Dury-Vasselon, a French painter of still lifes and flowers and a pupil of Antoine Vollon. The composition of hanging game continues the French tradition of the nature morte au gibier, renewed by the Realist circle around Vollon and the painters of the Lyon School. Its dense oil handling, close attention to the texture of the plumage and restrained palette are characteristic of this manner. Dury-Vasselon was a sociétaire of the Société des Artistes Français, and still lifes with pheasants are recorded among her works.