Books usually mean books. Don't make things complicated.
Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh - Paris - was created in 1886.
No one but the artist knows what it truley means. But I interpret it as a messed up, empty life.
its still life paintings
In all of Matisse' paintings he never painted still life.
flowers
There are several paintings entitled "still life" or "vanitas" by saint-andre. Be more specific. Of course they were all from the second half of the 17th century...
Fruit, animals.
Portrait is generally used as a noun. It could be used as an adjective in cases like this: I'm going to separate the portrait paintings from the still life paintings.
The earliest known of his paintings is Still Life with Cabbage and Clogs.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
He did paintings and etchings of almost exclusively still life, apart from a few self-portraits.
He admired the attention to detail.