Flowers in a Chantilly Vase
- Date
- c.1760
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- European Art to 1800
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 25 5/8 x 21 1/2 in. (65.1 x 54.6 cm)
framed: 33 1/16 x 28 7/8 x 3 in. (84 x 73.3 x 7.6 cm) - Credit Line
- Friends Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 181:1980
NOTES
This dramatically lit arrangement of showy blossoms features floral varieties at the height of fashion in 18th-century France. In addition to lush still lifes, royal flower painter Louis Tessier created compositions for tapestries, furniture, porcelain, and fabrics. Lyon’s most celebrated designers of floral silks often apprenticed under Parisian flower painters like Tessier. By using points rentrés, a technique developed in the 1730s where tones of color were dovetailed to suggest shading, these designers, working with master weavers, imitated painted lifelike blooms on a loom.
Provenance
by 1977 -
Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, Austria [1]
- 1980
Spencer A. Samuels & Company, Ltd., New York, NY, USA
1980 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Spencer A. Samuels & Company, Ltd. [2]
Notes:
[1] Galerie Sanct Lucas exhibited the painting in its Winter 1977/1978 exhibition. See the exhibition catalog [“Gemälde Alter Meister.” Gallery Sanct Lucas, Winter 1977/1978, cat. no. 30].
[2] Invoice dated May 30, 1980 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 6, 1980.
Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, Austria [1]
- 1980
Spencer A. Samuels & Company, Ltd., New York, NY, USA
1980 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Spencer A. Samuels & Company, Ltd. [2]
Notes:
[1] Galerie Sanct Lucas exhibited the painting in its Winter 1977/1978 exhibition. See the exhibition catalog [“Gemälde Alter Meister.” Gallery Sanct Lucas, Winter 1977/1978, cat. no. 30].
[2] Invoice dated May 30, 1980 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 6, 1980.
We regularly update records, which may be incomplete. If you have additional information, please contact us at provenance@slam.org.