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Meiffren Conte and the splendour of still life Meiffren Conte, also found as Comte, Le Conte or Lecointe, was born in Marseille around 1630 and died there in 1705. He belongs to a later seventeenth-century world in which still life was no longer confined to modest arrangements of fruit, flowers or household objects. In hisContinue reading “Meiffren Conte (c. 1630–1705) and the splendour of still life”