Contact gallery for price		Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay   French, 1653-1715 Still-Life Oil on canvas 18 1/8 x 14 3/8 inches Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay was a French painter who specialized in flower painting. He was born in Caen, France in 1653 and died in Paris in 1715.  He was the pupil of Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, whose daughter he married, and whom he succeeded as a flower painter at the Manufacture des Gobelins, the tapestry factory in Paris. Belin renounced his Protestant faith and converted to Catholicism in order to work at the court of Louis XIV and painted floral murals in several royal chateaus including Fontainebleau and Versailles. Towards the end of his life, the king honored him by providing him with a pension and lodgings in the Palais du Louvre. He also collaborated with other painters, providing the floral borders in portrait paintings and tapestry cartoons for the Manufacture des Gobelins. Collections: Élysée Palace (Paris) Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge) Honolulu Academy of Arts Louvre (Paris) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Caen, France) Versailles