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Antoine Berjon (1754-1843), Still Life With Flowers, Shells, a Shark's Head, and Petrifications, 1819, French. Oil on canvas. 108 x 87.8 cm. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (http://www.philamuseum.org/), Philadelphia, Pa; purchased with the Edith H. Bell Fund. Photograph by Graydon Wood, 1992.

For more than a century and a quarter after his death, the French flower-painter Antoine Berjon (1754-1843) remained virtually unknown beyond his native country. Even within France his reputation did not extend much beyond Lyon, his birthplace, despite the fact that for more than 15 years of his adult life he had lived in Paris and continued throughout his life to visit Paris frequently to exhibit at the annual Salon.

Berjon, the son of a local butcher, was born in the Saint-Pierre de Vaise parish of Lyon just past the midpoint of the 18th century. Beyond that biographical details become sketchy and unreliable. One . . . [Full Text of this Article]

M. Therese Southgate, MD