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The image depicts a lush floral still life composition in a vase. The vase is filled with various flowers, including striking varieties and a mix of blooms of different shapes and sizes. Around the vase are some fruits, possibly apples and grapes, and in the background are blurred elements that draw attention to the flowers.

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Still Life with Flowers
Datec. 1834

Artist Eugène Delacroix (1798 Saint-Maurice – 1863 Paris)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
74 x 92,8 cm
Signatureunlabelled
Inventory number2455
Location Currently not on display
George Sand wanted this floral still life to be always in view. It was for her, France’s most famous female writer of the nineteenth century, that Delacroix painted this work. Whether it is indeed the artist’s first painting of flowers is unknown. But this does not detract from its importance as a work of art. Delacroix worked entirely with color; there are no clearly defined shapes or lines. His motivation was not botanical precision but the interplay of the colors, which he applied as contrasts, in enhancing juxtapositions, or radiant in their own right. Delacroix was thus well ahead of his time; his flower paintings and those of the Viennese Biedermeier era are poles apart.

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Sammlungen George Sand, E. Carlin, Ferdinand Bischoffsheim, Baron von Hirsch von Gereuth, Hector Brame (?) Bernheim, Paris
1924 Ankauf Hermann Eissler, Wien

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