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Still Life of a Bust of America
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755)
Date : 1722
Oil on canvas, Versailles, musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon © RMN (Château de Versailles)/Gérard Blot
Description:
Louis XV commissioned Jean-Baptiste Oudry to paint this still life, an allegory of the New World, which depicts America as a bust crowned with feathers and surrounded by fruits. It pays tribute to the remarkable products recently acclimated at Versailles’ kitchen garden, which Louis XIV had planted near the kitchens of the officers serving the royal family. The king commissioned architect Jules-Hardouin Mansart to design the garden and Jean-Baptiste La Quintinie, director of the royal palaces’ fruit and kitchen gardens, to oversee it.
This garden had several functions. It was used to grow vegetables for the king and the royal family but also to perform experiments on improving crops and creating new produce. La Quintinie acclimated the frail species depicted in this work, including figs, melons and peaches called “Venus’s nipples”. He also developed a new agricultural method for melons, growing them in glass bells.
In the winter of 1733 the king’s gardeners managed to grow pineapples and coffee beans, even though they need a hot climate in order to thrive.
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