Ichikawa Danjūrō VII and Bandō Mitsugorō III in the armour-pulling episode from The Tale of the Soga Brothers Type:stretched canvas shows Mme Pissarro sewing in

shows Mme Pissarro sewing in front of a window in their home at Pontoise

a district on the river Seine near Paris

He may have turned to kitchen subjects on his admission to the Academy in 1728 to distinguish himself from artists such as Desportes and Oudrey who specialised in game and hunting pieces

Carlevarijs was an innovative painter whose pioneering publication of 104 etched views of Venice in 1703 was later used as a source by Canaletto and other view-painters

His flower paintings

Ichikawa Danjūrō VII and Bandō Mitsugorō III in the armour-pulling episode from The Tale of the Soga Brothers Type:stretched canvas shows Mme Pissarro sewing in