1302 - Gaspard Grésly (1712, L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs – 1756, Besançon), a painter of the late 18th century.

Gaspard Grésly (1712, L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs – 1756, Besançon), a painter of the late 18th century. Trompe-l’oeil still life A finely and subtly painted still life composed on a heavily grained wooden panel, featuring various pictorial and representational elements. Among them, centered and attached to a nail, is a painting depicting a hermit (St. Jerome) after Gerrit Dou; to its right, a copperplate engraving by Johann Jakob Kleinschmidt after Abraham Bloemaert, pinned in place with pins; and letters, documents, sketch sheets, and objects such as a quill pen, a sealing wax stick, a comb, and a brush—mostly secured beneath stretched ribbons. Entirely in the tradition of the trompe-l’oeil still lifes popular in the 17th and18th centuries, in which the realistic impression is enhanced through the deliberate use of light and shadow and the application of the rules of perspective, creating an almost tangible sense of three-dimensionality. Reminiscences of the works of Gaspard Grésly are particularly evident in the composition and the pictorial elements used. Oil on canvas; inscribed on documents, among other places, “To Monsieur (/) Mons. Johann Ernst (/) Bähre (/) Franco (/) a (/) Braunschweig" (possibly the patron) as well as "To ... Daniel (/) Petr..." 57 cm x 73.5 cm. Framed. Follower of Gaspard Grésly (1712–1756), active in the late 18th century. Oil on canvas. Various inscriptions indicating the location Braunschweig.