Marguerite Bauban Binet Antique Painting Still Life Poppy Cardboard Tapestry Gobelins Paris 1900

Very beautiful drawing from the Art Nouveau period, watercolor and gouache on paper, signed lower center Marguerite Bauban Binet, representing wild flowers in their natural state on a speckled background in shades of blue and mauve. Sister of the architect René Binet (Universal Exhibition at Porte BINET), she created cartoons for the Gobelins factory. Her tapestry model for a screen was created in 1909 at the Manufacture, close to our model, it is decorated with a central character. The cartoon is kept in the collections of the Mobilier National. Small vertical scratch in the center of 0.3mm, a slight depression on the top of a poppy, otherwise good condition of freshness, in an original white mat mounted on a strong cardboard. The whole in good condition see photos. Total dimensions: 57.5 cm x 40.5 cm, cardboard alone 48.5 cm x 32.5 cm