Georges Jeannin - Upset Flower Pot
Artist: Georges Jeannin (1841 - 1925)
Active: France
Title: Upset Flower Pot,
“Oleander with Overturned Flower Pot”
Category: Painting
Medium: Oil
Ground: Canvas
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Size: 25.75 x 21.5"
Style: Impressionist
Subject: Floral Still Life
Frame: Museum quality composition frame, gilt in real gold leaf
Frame Size Overall: 36 x 31.5"
Seller's Notes/Description: Jeannin was the president of the French Society of Flower Painters Certificate of Authenticity with chain of ownership provenance will be included.
Price: Please Contact Dealer
Georges Jeannin - Upset Flower Pot
Artist: Georges Jeannin (1841 - 1925)
Active: France
Title: Upset Flower Pot
Category: Painting
Medium: Oil
Ground: Canvas
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Size: 25.75 x 21.5"
Style: Impressionist
Subject: Floral Still Life
Frame: Museum quality composition frame, gilt in real gold leaf
Frame Size Overall: 36 x 31.5"
Seller's Notes/Description: Jeannin was the president of the French Society of Flower Painters Certificate of Authenticity with chain of ownership provenance will be included.
Price: Please Contact Dealer
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The following biography is from Wikipedia:
Son of an auditor buildings, he was a pupil of Victor Vincelet . It began in the Salon of 1868 and will then expounded with regularity. He obtained an honorable mention in 1876, a medal 3rd class medal in 1878 and a 2 nd class in 1888. He was also honored with a bronze medal on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1889 , then by another during the universal Exhibition of 1900 , both in Paris. The Legion of Honor he was awarded in 1903.
A recognized specialist in the "Flower Art", this master of still life was particularly renowned for his talent to represent the roses .
He also realized together with Achille Cesbron Passage Fair decorating the Paris City Hall .
Admitted to the Society of French artists in 1878, Member of the National Horticultural Society of France , he chairs the Fine Arts Section of the creation of it in 1898 until his death. He was also a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of the Flower.
Key works listed in the French public collections [ change | modify the code ]
The cartload of flowers (1879) and Boarding flowers (1880) were purchased by the State in favor of the Musée du Luxembourg .
A day of celebration, acquired by the City of Paris in 1882, was originally presented in the lounge of the Prefect of the Seine.
Flowers and fruits in possession of the Musée Magnin in Dijon .