Louis VIDAL (c.1754-c.1807) Fruits, flowers and nest at the foot of a tree. Oil on panel. Parquetage. Signed lower right and dated L. Vidal. Px. 1805. 54,5 x 69,5 cm. On Louis Vidal, painter of flowers, active in the North of France, of which the museum of Lille preserves a composition in the spirit of our painting, also dated 1805, one will refer to the work of Michel and Fabrice Faré, La Vie Silencieuse en France. La Nature Morte au XVIIIe siècle, p. 329-Office du Livre, Fribourg (1976).