Description: A still life with roses, carnations, violets and other flowers, peaches and a melon and a sculpture probably of Louise-Marie of Orleans, on a marble ledge against a curtain, the Palace of Laken in the background
Signed and dated 1851 lower left
Oil on canvas, 118.9 x 100.6 cm (oval)
Provenance:
- Auction Christie's, Amsterdam, 19 October 1993, lot 180
- Private collection, the Netherlands
Exhibited:
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen, Elck zijn waerom, 17 October 1999
16 January 2000
Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Elck zijn waerom, 26 February
12 June 1999
Note:
Louise-Marie of Orléans (1812–850) was the first Queen of the Belgium. She was born as a French princess, as the eldest daughter of Louis-Phillipe I, King of France (1773–Claremont). At twenty years old, Louise-Marie married King Leopold I (1790–1865). They had 4 children who became the first princes and princesses of Belgium.