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Garnier was first recorded in Paris in 1627. The celebrated Louise Moillon was his daughter-in-law. His work is careful and realistic, and close to that of Jacques Linard. His type of realism can be found much later in the century, in the work of the equally obscure Dutch artist, Adriaen Coorte.
Garnier comes close to Moillon in his Cherries and Gooseberries on a Table in the Louvre, but his sense of the picturesque quality of the fruits and leaves hanging from their branches is obvious, whereas Moillon never allowed such charm to intrude on her distillations of banal subject-matter.
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