Superb Antique French Oil Painting, Nature Morte, Signed by Artist, Orig. Frame Sevres A great decorative set

A great decorative set

congregate socially

a scene captured from the leisurely country manor life of the early 1800s to as late as 1860

There was some significance to the flowers

Straight from my own kitchen

Superb Antique French Oil Painting, Nature Morte, Signed by Artist, Orig. Frame Sevres A great decorative setExceptionally fine 19th century oil painting on stretched linen canvas. Signed by the artist, "Lezoy" or perhaps Leroy or Lezou. I am not certain. But the painting is a beautiful rendition of a popular 19th century theme known as "nature morte", a still life which usually had birds, animals, sea creatures or fish and sometimes kitchen tools. The genre has more to do with a sort of prayer for the bounty of a meal to be prepared than it does to do with