Object Detail
Description
still Life, flowers, A robin red breast perched on a twig over a nest containing four eggs, stands before the basket. In the background, to the right, is a black and red butterfly, silhouetted against a dark blue sky, lightening to white at the horizon. Foliage is silhouetted on the horizon line. The foreground is represented as a river bank with the waters edge in the lower part of the picture. The painting is nailed to an oval stretcher and housed in a watergilded oval frame.
Still life, flowers, top left: White Opium Poppy top right: Red Opium Poppy Mid left: [pos] Jasmine, & Delphiniums, Middle: Anemone, Morning Glory, Rose Yellow [pos] Rosa ‘Sulphurea’ Pink Rose Centifolia DeMeaux Daisies Bottom left: [pos] Bluebells Bottom right: Daisy & Camellia Red Robin with eggs = new life?
Still life, flowers, top left: White Opium Poppy top right: Red Opium Poppy Mid left: [pos] Jasmine, & Delphiniums, Middle: Anemone, Morning Glory, Rose Yellow [pos] Rosa ‘Sulphurea’ Pink Rose Centifolia DeMeaux Daisies Bottom left: [pos] Bluebells Bottom right: Daisy & Camellia Red Robin with eggs = new life?
Maker and role
artist: French School
Production place
France
Production date
circa 1860
Media description
oil on canvas
Measurements
530 x 420 mm
Inscriptions
Stamp on back of canvas: G.-- lau-Paris. | Stencil number on back of quatrefoil stretcher: 10 | On frame back instructions to framer in pencil " . . . . Oval . . . . " etc.
Credit line
Foundation Collection, 1989
Project credit line
This digital record has been made available on TJC Collection Online through a significant donation from the OPENING DOORS fund, the generous support of The Friends of The Johnston Collection, and Digitisation Champion Christine Bell
Accession number
A0958.2
TJC reference number
5353