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French still-lifes always employed the same monotonous repertoire, without the dense liveliness of Flemish art. Symbols were often included, such as a wisp of straw, an hour glass, skull, or fly that went into a vanitas still-life. Simon Renard de Saint-André might depict a butterfly on the flower, a fly on the skull, or a whole collection of funerary objects, all orchestrated in front of deep red drapes.
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