Still Life With Roses, Butterflies And Objects By P-l-joseph De Coninck (1828-1910) 48 X 54 Cm

Elegant and precious floral still life, composed around a refined set of roses arranged on an entablature, accompanied by delicate objects.

In the center, an ornamental vase or bowl hosts sumptuous roses in subtle hues - pearly whites, delicate yellows and powdery pinks - treated with a great sense of material and light. Alongside them, a finely decorated fan in the foreground adds a touch of sophistication and evokes the feminine world of the 19th century.

The composition is enriched with fruit, foliage and a few decorative elements, while three fluttering butterflies add a note of lightness and discreetly enliven the scene. The background, structured by architecture and a set of curtains, lends depth and theatricality to the whole.
The very luminous treatment, subtle and nuanced, highlights the textures - velvety petals, transparent butterfly wings, shiny objects - in a tradition inherited from the great decorative still life.

Painter trained at the Lille and then Paris schools, a pupil of Léon Cogniet, Pierre-Louis-Joseph De Coninck distinguished himself in history painting and decorative compositions. Winner of the Prix de Rome, he also developed a production of refined still lifes, in which his acute sense of composition and color shines through.

His works are today held in several public collections, including:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Washington, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Lille Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Valenciennes musée des Beaux-Arts
Dunkerque musée des Beaux-Arts
Paris, Palais-Royal, salle du Conseil d'État
^{Bayonne, musée Bonnat
Douai, Musée de la Chartreuse
Bailleul, Benoît-De-Puydt museum}

Good overall condition. Cracking and light wear consistent with age

Presented in an antique molded and gilded wooden frame.

Compareable sales (only two still lifes were sold at public sales, the rest of the sales being devoted to portraits of notablesor country girls)

Still life of flowers with various shells
Lot N° 830- Oil/canvas 43.5 x 32.5 cm
Price by hammer: 3 000 €
Glas - Gemälde - Silber - Skulpturen - Uhren - Möbel 03/03/2007
Arnold Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Details signed bottom left
Reproduced on page 104 of the catalog / Photo on request

Nature morte sur table chargées de légumes, de porcelaine et d'argenterie
Lot N° 500 - Oil on canvas 21 x 27 cm
Gavel price with fees: 8 904 € (5 400 £ )
12/07/2001 Sotheby's London, United Kingdom Details Qty: 2
signed "DeConinck Reproduced on page 239 of the catalog - Photo on request