Antique French Flower Oil Painting Still Life in Cream Vase, Circa 1890
Antique French Flower Oil Painting Still Life in Cream Vase, Circa 1890
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There is a quiet tension in this one. The vase is painted with real confidence, its pale baluster form modeled cleanly against a deep oxblood ground, while the flowers above it, orange zinnias, small blue and white blossoms, a stray pink bloom on a bent stem, are handled more loosely, the way a working study often is. Oil on canvas, French, late nineteenth century, in a substantial gilt gesso frame. The reverse carries a faint pencil inscription in French and a keyed, hand tacked stretcher that dates the work.
The canvas is stable on its keyed stretcher with the tacking edges present. The paint surface shows scattered specks of light surface accretion in the upper ground and a few small spots of paint loss, one near the base of the vase and one to the right of it, visible as small pale points. There are punctures to the canvas in the lower left corner and at the right, disclosed as noted on the working record. The surface carries a light overall grime consistent with age. I have not had the work examined under laboratory conditions, so I am describing only what is visible and what I can see in hand.
The frame is a gilt gesso on wood molding with a foliate outer course and an egg and dart inner course. It has composition losses at several corners where the white gesso substrate is exposed, along with smaller chips along the edges. The losses are real and photographed. The frame reads as original to the period of the work.
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