/internal/media/dispatcher/113715/fullStill Life with Flowersc. 1838[Franz Xaver Gruber]Franz Xaver GruberOil on canvasIn the Biedermeier period, flower painters usually composed their pictures according to the same principles. The bouquet is inscribed in an oval and unfurls before a background that was almost always neutral. Arranged at the center are the more beautiful and magnificent flowers, where the most light falls on them. Smaller or more inconspicuous blooms are placed at the edges and hence in the shade. In front of this arrangement some flowers seem to have fallen out of the vase (but they are as artfully arranged as the bouquet). They extend beyond the edge of the table or the ledge on which the vase stands. Domestic or exotic fruits, birds and other animals sometimes enrich these floral compositions.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/1840/rdf