Alfred Emile Mery (French, 1824-1896)
Alfred Emile Mery (French, 1824-1896)

Birds feeding on berries (Untitled)

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Alfred Emile Mery (French, 1824-1896)
Birds feeding on berries (Untitled)
signed and dated 'E Mery 1868' (lower right)
oil on canvas, unframed
79 x 55 in. (201 x 140 cm.)

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Alfred Emile Mery was a student of J Beaucé. He fist exhibited at the Paris salon in 1848 winning a medal in 1868. He was financially ruined by the war of 1870 and resumed a career exhibiting everywhere from 1873 to 1877. Among scenes of interiors and still-lifes, his preferred subjects were birds, especially sparrows, as well as hornets bees cats and monkeys. He sometime gives a baroque quality to his animal subjects both through their strangeness and through the style he uses.

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