DE MERSSEMAN Auguste Joseph
STILL LIFE WITH FRUIT AND A MELON
Oil on panel: 58.5 x 49 cm / 23 x 19.3 in
Signed and dated '1865' lower left
Painter of still lifes, portraits and genre scenes.
Auguste Joseph De Mersseman was a pupil of the Academy of Bruges and, from 1833 on, of also of the Brussels one.
In 1840 he settled down in Antwerp.
The Groeninghe Museum in Bruges has his “Old Lafy With Cats” of 1840 in its collection.
Period:
Bruges 1808 - Antwerp 1880
Belgian School
Exhibitions:
Bruges
Literature:
P Piron, "Dictionnaire des artistes plasticiens de Belgique des XIXe et Xxe siècles", Ohain 2011, Vol. 1, p. 401.