Lecreux Gaston, Alfred (1846 - 1914) - Still Life Of Flowers.

Still life of flowers: ranunculus, snowballs, carnations and lilacs.

Oil on canvas signed lower right.
Dimensions: 81 x 61, with frame: 98 x 119 cm

The painter specializing in floral paintings gives us here a still life of flowers enriched by a delicate work on light. Three bouquets are arranged on an entablature in front of a window. The transparency of a curtain lets outside light filter through, bathing the painting in a soft luminosity. The pastel colors blend into a harmonious gradient of white, pink towards purple.

Gaston, Alfred Lecreux, landscape flower painter and watercolorist was a pupil of A. Boucher and J. Noël. He started at the salon in 1877.

Bibliography:. Benezit. Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie, Louis Auvray, General dictionary of artists of the French school from the origin of the drawing arts to the present day, Paris Renouard-1882-1885. Masterpieces from the Musée du Luxembourg / Bénédite, Léonce, Paris.

Museums:. Paris, Musée d'Orsay. . Reims, Museum of Fine Arts.