Oil on canvas W. Kerling still life with flowers

Like a silent invitation to celebrate the arrival of spring 🌸 on a dark and sober background, which subtly brings out the richness of the colors, an explosion of flowers in vibrant hues blooms: powder roses, creamy peonies, striped tulips and touches of cornflower come together in a visual harmony full of freshness and poetry the porcelain vase that hosts them rests on a tablecloth with a moiré texture, suggesting the painter's care in capturing the softness of the fabrics as much as the fragility of the living the whole evokes the great dutch masters while retaining a very personal softness w. Kerling is a painter known for his very classical floral still lifes, generally produced between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. These works, often executed with great finesse, were intended for a bourgeois decorative market framed in a period gilt-leaf frame, with textile marie-louise. A charming piece ideal for a refined and romantic decoration dimensions without frame: 24 X 19 cm. With frame: 38 X 33 cm period: late 19th century.